Thursday, June 23, 2011

Talks better than dictation

It is better for civil society and all commoners that social activist Anna Hazare and his team should build pressure on the government to act against corruption and for moving the Lokpal Bill acceptable nation-wide through mass mobilisation rather than threatening to hold fast unto death strike from 16th of August. Anna Hazare has rightly said corruption is threatening more to the nation than Pakistan. He means to say that sponsorship of terrorism by Pakistan in India is less dangerous than the corruption, which pervades all spheres of life. There are many more differences than agreements on almost all points incorporated in Lokpall bill sent to Union Cabinet before it is to be introduced in Lok Sabha in its coming monsoon session. Anna Hazare team want the Prime Minister, SC and HCs judges to be in the purview of Lokpal. But according to the government version that as PM has to take important decision on the spot in the interest of the nation at any point of time, he can not do so if he is placed under the purview of Lokpal, who is himself accountable to nobody. This appears to be a vital question raised by the government. Because it is itself accountable to Parliament elected by the people. If all the demands of Anna Hazare team are fulfilled, Lokpall will be come the sole arbiter of the nation without any accountability to the people, who are sovereign in parliamentary democracy. This is not possible in parliamentary democracy where are powers are vested in the People. Civil society activists are undermining the Parliament and inferences can easily be made from their talks that whatever they say is right and the government is wrong. There is agreement all over the country with Anna Hazare team that the successive governments in the country since it got independence have completely failed to check corruption and it has grown many folds. Corruption has left untouched any thing. The government has to act and the main business of the civil society activists should launch mass movement campaign through the entire country to make the people aware of government failures at all steps.

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