I had been reading a lot about Mr. Anna Hazares1 fast unto death #bowinrespect, which began on April 5th2011 to exert pressure on the government to establish a strong law against corruption.
Mr. Anna Hazare and prominent civil society activists drafted a bill- Jan Lokpal Bill2. He is to end his fast today after the order is out to form an autonomous committee with five representatives of Civil society and Mr. Hazare himself.
"The committee will be notified formally with a government order that will explain its term and references, conferring legislative authority upon it. Mr Hazare has said he will break his fast after the order is out; Kapil Sibal has said it will be issued at 10 am today."3
It is certainly a mind blowing victory of democracy over a rampant social ailment- corruption. As Dr. JayaPrakash Narayan said,
“Even a flawed democracy has great self-correcting ability. The events of recent months prove that people power ultimately triumps”4
All those who whole heartedly supported Mr. Anna Hazare by participating in rallies and spreading news about this noble cause are truly praiseworthy for their effort and perseverance.
My take on this:
Corruption is more powerful than God...it is omnipresent and omnipotent. (and one nice thing about corruption is: it always works, unlike our ambiguous prayers! #nooffenseintended) We often exploit its power in various ways, at various levels, like- bribing the traffic inspector to avoid fine, obtaining driving licenses through agents without drive-test, bribing government servants for obtaining fake certificates (of birth, death, qualification...), buying cinema tickets in black, avoiding to pay income tax to accumulate black money, etc. (However, this is a general allegation, not on everyone or someone.)
I believe, how many ever bills get passed and laws emerge into existence, the country can't change completely until we change, since we the people make the country. And we are smart people; if we don't want to abide any system we will find loopholes in it, however stringent it is!
Nevertheless, I truly pray that the committees Lokpal at the centre and Lokyukta at the state are given power enough to kill this social ailment, corruption, although it is to be observed that being responsible as an individual would play a very vital role in this crusade. All celebrities, politicians and youth who supported the cause by making commendable use of new technologies such as social networking sites like twitter and facebook to spread info about the cause are most welcome to continue their support whether or not the implementation of the order is powerful at all levels. They can continue their support from now on by not being corrupt by all means.
Will of a person is the best law. So 'will' you dare to take an oath of anti-corruption? I will.
2 comments:
Every human being by nature is corrupt. If historians are to be believed the corruption begun as soon as the human being started to learn to trade for one thing for another.
In today's world, if you give someone a choice of either bribing their way out of some serious problem or suffer to death, guess what will they chose?
We are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. 90% (or more) of the people who came on road for the protest have been surviving in India for years by bribing someone or another. If they have never bribed then it is because they have avoided it without doing anything about it.
When we all talk about removing corruption, we only mean that people who are high up in ranks must not be corrupt, where as when time comes we all need that option of bribing our way out of it in our day to day life. The politicians are a reflection of what we are, our imperfect self that will do anything to get what they want.
We must understand an ideal person doesn't exist and we must do the best we can to chose right over wrong in all the cases at all the times. It will be a tough, sad life at most times but a proud one when you are in your grave.
I meant the same. Though I didn't follow the purpose of your comment, I must say- human self-correcting ability is commendable, so I choose to be optimistic that change can be brought in every individual that will eventually reflect in the society.
We are what we want to be (as long as sanity prevails). Of course we can't be perfect, but can always avoid ethical-discrepancies.
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