For the last couple of months I have been enjoying the socio-political developments at central level, feeling little empowered and as always more agitated.
When Anna Hazare ji initiated his fast unto death, arrogance of so called United ‘Progressive’ Alliance was at its peak. People like Digvijay ridiculed the whole movement and nobody actually took it seriously until Anna ji came to Delhi and actually started his fast. We all joined him at Jantar Mantar, and then after four days, this arrogant (special mention Manish Tewari) government felt the mood of people and finally came out with a notification regarding these demands.
Now Swami Ramdev, having much broader range of demands is planning to repeat the same exercise at Ramlila Maidan. Government is much cautioned this time and it gave me immense pleasure to saw the faces of those public representatives when they went to airport to meet swami Ramdev. I didn’t see Manish Tewari during the day but one of his dear party colleagues Digvijay is still ridiculing the entire movement. He is saying that you can not come up with any sort of laws by these dharnas and protests, as if he knows the process of curbing the corruption but don’t wish to disclose it.
Well, as a common man of this nation I am fully supporting these movements, that’s why went to Jantar Mantar and will try to go to Ramlila Maidan as well but just wanted to raise a point of looking at this menace of corruption from a different perspective or in other sense in a more holistic way. Since the time I started realizing that corruption is one of the biggest threat to our democracy and society at large, I also realized that it is we, all of us, the people of this erstwhile great nation are making it a corrupt and then in turn a failed state.
In fact we all try to either break the rules or try to bypass them as and when we can, in different capacity or forms. How many people do we know in our family, friend, professional circles or for that matter in public space that we can trust upon and guarantee that he/she would not be indulged in any sort of corruption. Take for example IAC movement, apart form Ann Hazare, Kiran Bedi and Santosh Hegde rest all of them are under suspicion.
Otherwise also, out of several interesting points which are being raised about the effectiveness and success of Lokpal, one, which is of huge concern to me, is potential number of cases pertaining to corruption. In a country where corruption is spread across all walks of life, would Lokpal be able to handle cases in such a large volume? Do we want Lokpal to face the same fate as RTI act, where hundreds of cases are lined up in departments and despite the fact that in some cases information officers are working genuinely but still not complying the time lines. We had the provision of fine / punishment for those who would not adhere the timelines of act, just wondering how many officers are fined or punished under this clause.
Point I am trying to raise is, it’s good that we have initiated these movements but going by the volume and scale of corruption in our society, this top to bottom approach is not going to be effective and sustainable until we start something from the bottom.
I m sorry dears corruption is in our minds, by these movements we can only remove the corrupt systems and practices, but wouldn’t be lucky enough to eradicate it from the millions of minds. Let’s have a movement for that as well…
“Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work “ Swami Vivekananda Ji
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