A little known activist from Maharashtra Anna Hazare raised a storm by going on a fast and demanding what on the outside seems like a rather just demand from the government to bring in the entire bureaucracy and judiciary under the ambit of an all powerful Jan-Lokpal Bill. If this version of bill (the Govt. version is called Lokpal Bill) is passed by the lower and upper houses it will ensure that the entire political class(including the PM), the bureaucracy, the judiciary become accountable to the people and cases of criminal and corrupt nature to be lodges against them and immediate action to be taken regarding the same.
But the point here is that there are 2 forms of bill- 1 by the representatives of the civil society (meaning us-the aam aadmi) and 1 by the government. And obviously there are number of points of contention between the 2 groups which don't seem to be leveling down.
An important point to ponder over is who selected these "representatives" of ours to fight for the Jan-Lokpal Bill. I personally had never heard of Hazare or the Bhushans till the whole fiasco burst forth and Kejriwal , all I know about him is that he promoted RTI at the grassroots. Only member i know is Justice Hegde and that too only because I hail from Karnataka and have heard of his good deeds. I don't expect the majority of India to know about him as well. Atleast the members of Govt. panel are elected. But these people are not elected so they do not and I repeat do not represent us.
And who are the people supporting our "representatives"? Bollywood personalities for whom, lets face it, its more like a fashion statement than anything else and a chance to be in the public eye a little while longer. And self-proclaimed gurus (most notably Baba Ramdev and Swami Agnivesh) who seem to want to go back to feudal hinduism rather than true hinduism ( what with Homosexuality "cure" by what ? certain breathing techniques and regular updates by Agnivesh on atrocities on hindus and yeah the commentary on why western values are all wrong).
To add to all this, there is mounting doubts on the true intentions of the representatives and shady-ous past I say we don't give the Warriors of civil movement any more chances to posture in front of the media and shout allegations and slogans.
Don't get me wrong I truly support the basic premise of Jan-Lokpal but not the way in which we seem to be going about in getting it. India needs a strong anti-corruption law and the only way to get it is by electing good men and women ( rather than people from our community into ) the government and utilizing what is available to us in the form of RTI and Lok-Ayukta to ensure the corrupt and the wrong are punished. By black-mailing the government into doing something ( which by the way is and won't work) we stoop to their level. And one and only way to end corruption is by just "saying NO to it" .
But the point here is that there are 2 forms of bill- 1 by the representatives of the civil society (meaning us-the aam aadmi) and 1 by the government. And obviously there are number of points of contention between the 2 groups which don't seem to be leveling down.
An important point to ponder over is who selected these "representatives" of ours to fight for the Jan-Lokpal Bill. I personally had never heard of Hazare or the Bhushans till the whole fiasco burst forth and Kejriwal , all I know about him is that he promoted RTI at the grassroots. Only member i know is Justice Hegde and that too only because I hail from Karnataka and have heard of his good deeds. I don't expect the majority of India to know about him as well. Atleast the members of Govt. panel are elected. But these people are not elected so they do not and I repeat do not represent us.
And who are the people supporting our "representatives"? Bollywood personalities for whom, lets face it, its more like a fashion statement than anything else and a chance to be in the public eye a little while longer. And self-proclaimed gurus (most notably Baba Ramdev and Swami Agnivesh) who seem to want to go back to feudal hinduism rather than true hinduism ( what with Homosexuality "cure" by what ? certain breathing techniques and regular updates by Agnivesh on atrocities on hindus and yeah the commentary on why western values are all wrong).
To add to all this, there is mounting doubts on the true intentions of the representatives and shady-ous past I say we don't give the Warriors of civil movement any more chances to posture in front of the media and shout allegations and slogans.
Don't get me wrong I truly support the basic premise of Jan-Lokpal but not the way in which we seem to be going about in getting it. India needs a strong anti-corruption law and the only way to get it is by electing good men and women ( rather than people from our community into ) the government and utilizing what is available to us in the form of RTI and Lok-Ayukta to ensure the corrupt and the wrong are punished. By black-mailing the government into doing something ( which by the way is and won't work) we stoop to their level. And one and only way to end corruption is by just "saying NO to it" .
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