War against corruption must go on

These-days, corruption is all pervasive. No area of activities are free of it. Whether it is government organisation, political or social organisation, every where corruption rules the rust. The main victim of this cancerous disease is none other than the poor common people of the nation. The political class which rules the country since Independence has never paid any serious attention towards this cancer. It grows from strength to strength. Whether it is Congress, BJP , Left or all other small political organisations, all deliberately evade to fight out corruption, eating into the vitality of the nation. Anna Hazare, a great social activist and frontline torch-bearer of society, is doing a great service to the nation by raising voice against corruption and mobilising civil societies nation-wide to join him in his crusade. He is getting overwheming response from all over country.Hazare has begun his hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi for enactment of anti-corruption bill the Jan Lok Adalat. It has entered second day. He has got tremendous support all over the nation. He is rightly demanding the constitution of draft committee consisting 50 of government officials and fifty percent of eminent citizens from civil society.But the government is saying altogether a different story despite it is corruption and scandal ridden. It says that Hazare's hunger strike against corruption is pre-mature. But when it says at the same time that it is open to all suggestions, what compulsion it that holds it back from drafting the committee first as Hazare pleads for . The Lok Bill has a very old story and it has been introduced 8 times in Parliament since 1968 but it has never seen light of the day for one lacunae , political differences and will power or the other. Lok Bill must be introduced in Parliament and thereafter pass in its true spirit and Lok Yukta must be introduced in all states of the country. Lok Pal must also be independent and need not take permission from any authority to lodge FIR against the corrupt and it must try the case within a year so that the guilty could be punished in time. Lok Pal must be independent as our SC and HC judges and all other anti-corruption agencies must all be subsumed. Anna Hazare is a great reformist and the nation pins hope on him to liberate the nation from corruption by compelling the government to introduce and enact Lok Bill.It is the courage, determination and guts of Anna Hazare that he has declared an open war against corruption. The entire civil socieity now has obligation to give full-fledged support to the great social activist. The time has come for the nation to stand behind Hazare's fight for the people's cause. Otherwise, the day is not far off when we would be devoured by corruption.