LOK PAL VS CORRUPTION

Shri Anna Hazare and his team members---Sub-LOK PAL V/S CORRUPTION The committed ones;------------------------ Most in this country appreciate your efforts for installation of the INSTITUTION OF LOK PAL with purpose to set up fool proof systems for investigating known /reported cases of corruption. In the beginning of your open and known call for fight with the system to go in for struggle beginning with your fast and agitation at the RAM LILA GROUNDS in DELHI. Your efforts then were very well received as should be clear from huge gathering all around the VENUE AT DELHI, and its ECO coming from through out the country. As is clear to most thinking people here, THIS CANCER OF CORRUPTION is not being controlled and is rather permitted to be spread all around. This seems all due to lack of will power and positive action on part of the entire political class. Other pillars of our democracy too have not positively contributed for the purpose. After your mentioned agitation in Delhi, people started feeling as if you started taking sides with the political parties, as was clear from the team members supporting/opposing parties in a bye election in Haryana. In the elections to some state assemblies just there after too, people felt as if your team was taking sides. Many started doubting wisdom and intentions of the team knowing fully well that only one single political party can not be blamed for the mess, rather others may be still bigger culprits in the game, other wise the parties in power before and after these elections were no way better than the party whom total blame is thrust upon if case of just one state i.e. UP be taken as a test case. This is being mentioned here giving MOOD OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC who has a lot of hope from your team, and also do not doubt your honesty in any way. Still request is being made to you, to please instead confine your self to the main issue of CORRUPTION; of course for the purpose fight may have to be extended to changing the POLITICAL SYSTEM AND ELECTION PROCESS AS A WHOLE as these we see are the root cause of most maladies haunting our nation. SOME MAIN CAUSES AS have been made out from the mood of general public are detailed here after again with the request to make note of these items as well and fix in your priorities. 1) Just now as is known to all, the system itself permits huge sums of money for contesting elections. The general observations are that in actual terms much more than the permitted limits, expenses by the individual candidates are incurred . So, after getting elected or even otherwise this politician will naturally try to make good the incurred expenses, a big cause of corruption. 2] During electioneering and before entering the election fray, lot of promises for doles and freebies are made, and many a times these are fulfilled too after the elections. For individual party’s desire to be in power, public money is doled out in crores. 3]The schemes like MNREGA and MID-DAY MEALS, etc., too, besides creating beggar tendencies and create laziness in the receivers, are simply BRIBES for the purpose of vote bank gains. 4]Our constitution was framed more than sixty years from now. Those who conceived and drafted this constitution had mandated RESERVATIONS to particular classes in the society for a limited period and that too for permitting certain mentioned benefits only. But this CANCER OF RESERVATION continues unabated, rather this continues to be extended in many directions and spheres. No political party, just for VOTE BANK CONSIDERATIONS, takes courage to take up this issue for the purpose of putting a stop to this practice. In the process the society keeps dividing in many ways besides creating ill will amongst the population of this very country. This also compels the system to compromise on QUALITY /COMPETENCE AND CALIBRE, surely having bad and negative effect on our governance including nation’s PROPER AND ALL ROUND DEVELOPMENT. Should showering favours to some at the head of others just for VOTE BANK CONSIDERATIONS not be treated as CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE? As the CONDITIONS are, country’s economy is under huge pressure. The parties in power at the Centre as well as the States still continue to shower LARGEESE and FAVOURS to all those who put in just minimum pressure. This includes their employees/legislature/and other pressure groups. The Ruling dispensations due to fear of loss of vote bank dare not say NO to the demands of any of them, though BUDGETS GO IN TO NAGATIVE and system has to go for DEFICIT FINANCING. The perils of continuous Deficit are before all to see where besides other things our CURRENCY IS loosing its value speedily. The elected ones, many a time, CHANGE COLOURS /SIDES after getting elected on the tickets of the loosing dispensation. But just for greener pastures and gains, shift loyalties to the other. Shifting almost in 100% cases is towards the ruling groups. The ruling groups too in order to add strength and for the sake of longevity to their Governments, mostly welcome the DEFECTORS with arms vide open. Not only this, rather positions too are given to such defectors. This NULLIFIES THE VERY PURPOSE AND SPIRIT of ‘ANTI DEFECTION LAWS; The country has been divided into many states and still more demands for such further divides continue to crop up. The ruling dispensations show no courage to over-rule these most unreasonable demands, fearing loss of votes. SUCH DEMANDS can be fulfilled only at the cost of acquiring still more agricultural land in possession for creating paraphernalia for the new states to come into being. This creates further divides based on boundaries. Going by what has been mentioned here to fore, many instances of corruption spread all over can be given. The reasons for the system not being able to control is mostly lack of will to govern which is further hampered by the EXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE POLITICAL PARTIES ALL AROUND. So in many cases majority party running the system have to take help of others, who continue to PULL AND PRESSURISE the system for their SELFISH ENDS. So need is to give more strength to the struggle for change of ELECTION PROCESS AND POLITICAL SYSTEM where existence of only TWO POLITICAL PARTIES in the system becomes a rule and elections get mandated for the parties and not the individuals. Just going by the percentage of votes polled and polled votes further getting divided between the many, the ruling party mostly represent NOT MORE THAN 15% of the total votes. A BIG BLOT ON OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. Hope the committed ones in the country, specially your group will take up these issues on priority. R,D.Agarwal-A-86 indra nagar lucknow.blog www.rdagarwal.blogspot .comtwitter-rdagarwal Dated;-23.6.2012 .