Government, Politics and Corruption

From 1989 to 2013, from Bofors to IPL spot fixing scams, the part that has remained (and shall be remaining) constant is to protect the powerful. The parliamentary committees ever formed in all such massive scams have done their best in maintaining the constant scenario. This, in turn, has resulted in a complete failure to fix the accountability, or in other words, “who” kept the “how much” in “where”. The amazing part of all is how one after another scams of better numbers are getting divulged and the way strings are being pulled to cause distraction or a cloud around it.

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Can't our land acquisition system be more farmer friendly??

After all eye-catching issue on corruption prevailing in the blood of our society like a cancer that seems to be implacable, the next burning topic that seeks our attention is the land acquisition issues in India. The atrocities committed to the men of land - 'farmers' by the police, the men they knew as their protector, quaked the whole country one after the other incidents. Better be called as unfortunate events ! 

The Singur, Nandigram, Dhinkia,and Gobindpur are the stadiums that were used to play the game of industrialization on the tears of the poor people ! Obviously, the last two names might not be that familiar to you. Note, I said it "might not be". The devil role played by the ruling party in state with the mask of police was really something that drew immense attention of the whole nation. Well, I can't really assure that the international draw wasn't there. It was like building my shop on the corner of a beggar. I challenge you believe this !

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A Suggestive Agenda for better nation - policies with which politicians play games

Popular people like Ramdev ji or Anna Hazare ji who can reach the masses educated and uneducated alike.But as we had always seen that politicians make use of them to get them a better stage or come up with age-old process of personal attacks to get public support against them. 

They should first create a tumult of agendas like :

1. Severe actions to put a full stop to Population boom burdening Mother INDIA. Enacting the sternest measures to minimize growth rate. Actually, India require a negative growth rate. This may sound very in-human but it can't be helped.

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Baba Ramdev's eviction - "unfortunate and unavoidable" sad part of democracy

The country, that's known to the world as largest democracy, saw the devil face of its democracy. Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was evicted by police at midnight hours and thousands of followers were just tear gassed, lathi charged and cerfewed out. This was neither a political agitation nor a violence with 'bandhs'. It was just a 'satyagraha' of fasting for country. But the cruelty shown can put your breath to stop for a moment.

It took them an year to act against A. Raja, 6 months to arrest Kalmadi and one day to detain Baba Ramdev ! Irony is PM had tons of evidence to enforce arrests, detain Raja and kalmadi and none against Ramdev. A civilian who tried hitting a minister (June 6th, 2011) with a shoe is sent to Tihar Jail in a day. And when 500 policemen beat up peacefully protesting civilians, Lathi charging them, the PM defends the action as NECESSARY !

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Corruption - The invisible murderer of democracy

The main cause that had moved me to come up with a plan of blogging to raise my voice for the cause of democracy was the anti-corruption movement going throughout the nation. I was actually planning to wait, design and choke out plans for my way of blogging. Just then happened the never expected massacre. The "ramlila maidan" massacre. The fiery night that led us to stand and view murder of democracy. The heinous event that media covered up as "drama".

I guess every responsible citizen of this largest democracy knows what happened that night. Yet, I would surely cover it up again. No, not as a drama that just are made on the state for the cause of entertainment. But let me first brief the overall burning issue of corruption.

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Jan Lokpal Bill ??? What's that ! Read more to know . . . .

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body  that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year.
Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and present Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist), the draft Bill envisages a system where a corrupt person found guilty would go to jail within two years of the complaint being made and his ill-gotten wealth being confiscated. It also seeks power to the Jan Lokpal to prosecute politicians and bureaucrats without government permission.
Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi and other known people like Swami Agnivesh, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Anna Hazare and Mallika Sarabhai are also part of the movement, called India Against Corruption. Its website describes the movement as "an expression of collective anger of people of India against corruption. We have all come together to force/request/persuade/pressurize the Government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill. We feel that if this Bill were enacted it would create an effective deterrence against corruption."

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Some stunning facts about CWG scams and corruptions

The Prime Minister has announced Shunglu committee to enquire into corruption in commonwealth games projects. CAG, CVC, ED, Income Tax CBI etc are already doing their enquiries. Has the Prime Minister lost faith in these agencies? It is not surprising.

Let us look at the state of the enquiries going on so far. CVC is looking into just about 18 contracts or so, when there are thousands of contracts and much bigger ones. With the range of politicians facing allegations, CBI can be least entrusted to do an honest investigation, as it is directly under the government and takes its orders from the same set of politicians. ED is looking into only foreign exchange related matters like controversies surrounding Queen’s baton etc. One is not sure of the ambit of CAG’s enquiries but both CAG and CVC do not have the jurisdiction and powers to peep into the role of politicians. So, effectively politicians are out of all ongoing enquiries and it is believed that most of the money has finally landed with the politicians.

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