I have been following the campaign closely, be it controversy about the drafts, the formation of the Team Anna, creation of the India Aganist corruption portal or the fast aftermaths, I still fail to understand the Brouhaha around it.
What the Team feels is that once we hav a law in place, corruption will stop. How true is it?
Don’t we have a Penal Code, Criminal Code, laws against dowry, right to information, right to education, the food bill and what not. How many of our problems are solved? Rather new laws help corruption. Most of the acts provide a mechanism of a chain of bureacracy to be tackled to achieve the results. And while you try to jump over the red tapism, what you do is pay cash and move forward. Each law is a corruption in itself.
And then now to enact another law to help stop corruption?
We have a central vigilance commission, anti-corruption bureau, the judiciary…whats the solution. Is there any guarantee that the people heading these cannot be bribed? Can we not bribe the lokpal too? That should not be difficlut to achieve in the years to come.
Nope, a law is not a solution to our problems. Jan Lokpal is just a legal framework. Even Kasab is able to battle the legal framework and has already survived years on after the 26/11 and spend crores of our rupees on a daily basis.
The solution is CHANGE your attitude. From the ration card to the income-tax officer, from the pandu at the next signal to the TT at the next railway station, all we do is reach out for the ‘hari patti’ from our pockets. Why?
At one end you march the streets against corruption and the next moment you encourage them. Its rightly said, ‘Woh dukaan tab tak chalayega, jab tak customers aayega.’ Customers are you and me. If we stop paying those Rs 100 each and everytime, they will stop demanding it.
Now, the argument is, who has the time to waste when by paying a meagre Rs 100 I get my job done in minutes. The arguments is that normally it takes days to move a file from a table to another. Right? Then stop grumbling and complaining about it.
I have heard some friends say that now atleast Indians are not watching things happen. But what’s the use of walking on the streets, when we are the root cause of corruption?
The battle is on within us that corruption aint good, but then in real and practical life when the tables turn upon us, we do no think twice. So, either go full-fledged against corruption or STFU.
Now, another debate is that we bribe just a few hundred rupees and the scam is worth crores. The logic is plain simple. We earn a few thousands so our solution is in hundreds. They earn in crores so they solve there problem also in crores. Before pointing fingures at others, look at yourself first.
Now, back to the movement. I do not consider Anna Hazare Ji a Hero like many others do. I am not bothered if there team stays united or not. I don’t give a damn if there are allegations against the team. The only good thing about the team is that they could get the nation united over a cause. If Anna Ji really wants to make a difference, then make everyone SWEAR that they will not bribe an official again. When he succeeds in doing so, that’s when I would consider him a role model. I agree no-one has been able to gather a momentum like he has, but what’s the use. Eventually we are back to square one. The corruption saga is going to continue, be there a Lokpal, or not.
Neither did I support the Ramlila hungama las tym, nor will I do it this tym.
For all believers of Anna Ji. No offence meant. I respect him as a person and his cause not his movement.
