It is an open secret that government is not working with good intention but having malicious intention. And this is why thousands of cases of money embezzlement, fraud, loot related to various MPs and referred to the government by vigilance department and CBI remains pending for years together. Even PAC report on 2G report is not allowed to be tabled in Parliament. Action is not taken on Shangloo Committee report on CWG, Action not taken against culprits in Bofor scam, Bhopal Gas Tragedy and so on. This is why the government do not want to nip in the bud and why does it always prefer postponing the punishment to corrupt MPs, corrupt Ministers and corrupt PM forever.
If we go through government version of Lokpal Bill draft and if we draw any lesson from the attitude and treatment of the government shown during last forty years on Lokpal bill we can understand very well that the government is bent upon by hook or by crook in excluding the sitting MP, Ministers and Prime Minister from the purview of Lokpal.
In other way we can say that the government wants to give blanket permission to all MPs who are in power to earn unlimited money through illegal means and indulge in corrupt practice without the fear of Lokpal.
As proposed by the government, Lokpal can admit cases of corruption against only Ex-MPs and ex Prime Ministers which clearly defeats the very purpose of spirit of ‘Right to Recall’ lying behind Lokpal Bill .Obviously government wishes to provide shield as usual to sitting elected representatives even if they are found to be involved in corruption while in power.
More clearly Lokpal has to wait till the end of term of Parliament to move against corrupt MP, corrupt ministers and corrupt Prime Minister.
I therefore like to raise a few pertinent questions before the advocates like Kapil Sibal on controversial Lokpal Bill.
Can Government recover the money which amounts to hundreds, thousands and lacs of crores of rupees from Mr. Kalamadi or Mr. Koda or Mr. A. Raja or Mr. Telgi who caused huge loss to the government?
Can government stop loss before it is caused?
If no, how government proposes to compensate the exchequer when a serving MP or Minister by dint of his ill motivated decision caused irrecoverable loss to the government?
If other government employees are also exempted from action till their retirement what will be the utility of Lokpal bill left to reckon with.
Last but not the least, Members of Parliament are government servants. They are paid salary, allowances and various perquisites more than what other employees of the government are paid. They get salary revision faster than other employees of central government. They are supposed to be responsible and accountable and punishable as other employees are. However if the current government desires that all sitting MP including PM be excluded from Lokpal jurisdiction as long as they do not demit office , I would like to request our government to ensure that Lokpal do not admit cases of corruption against any government employees as long he or she retires from the service on the same ground on which PM is exempted from action during his tenure.
1. Nothing has been done during last 40 years to stop corruption. Lokpal bill is pending since long only because thieves are sitting at top post and they do not want any punishment for themselves. Cases of corruption lodged by CBI and Vigilance departments remain pending as long as the accused person is in power and as long as Supreme Court intervenes. Thousands of Cases involving thousands of crores of rupees frauds, misappropriation of government fund, corruption are lying pending in the office of CBI, RBI, Vigilance Department because VIPs of Government do not want any punishment to actual culprits and perpetrators of corrupt culture. None of accused in Bofors scam, Sikh Riot , Stamp scam, Bhopal Gas tragedy etc have been punished even after lapse of 25 years.
2. If the guardian is not disciplined and if there is no fear of punishment, the children are mostly likely to become worse than guardian. Congress party has remained in power for most of the time after freedom and level of corruption has been rising year after year. Even after exposure of numerous scams worth lacs of crores of rupees, government is hesitant to punish guilty ministers, MLAs, MPs, and top ranked officers as long as they are exposed by PIL and directed by courts. It has become habit of Congress Party leaders to blame BJP and RSS for all mischievous acts of their friends in power.
3. Everyone is chor (thief, corrupt, dishonest), it does not mean that Chori Karna Pap nahin hai.We have to learn to discriminate between Hira Chor and Khira Chor.And it is not acceptable that it is not possible to change the system of corruption. If non flatterers and truly meritorious persons are chosen for top posts, if merit is given its due recognition there is no doubt that the degree of corrupt culture will get diluted in course of time.
4. There are numerous examples of good officers, good ministers, good CMs who have acted honestly and effective come what may during their tenure and created phenomenal change in the area they worked. Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar are two latest examples whose work has been appreciated all over the country. Still Congress Party or RJD like political parties can find out a few faults of omission or commission in Gujarat and Bihar to tarnish the image of Bihar or Gujarat. But people of Bihar and Gujarat are happier under reign of current government. People of Congress Party have forgotten Sikh Riot of 1984 but is not ready to forget Gujarat riot of 2002.
5. T. N Shesan showed the country that if there is a will there is a way. Many IAS and IPS officers (like Kiran Bedi) have proved that if they are tight in administration criminal fly away from the district they are posted.
6. In our country our PM Manmohan Singh and his gang of ministers are still not ready to believe that Kalamadi or Koda or Raja did any wrong. He and his government are not ready to accept Shangloo committee report and PAC report. He does not believe finding of CAG if top ranked ministers are accused. His clean image will prove to be very costly for the Nation. Corruption has crossed the level of tolerance, it is the statement of PM himself but he says that is helpless.Rabri Devi did better in Bihar when she was CM in Bihar.
Ministers found involved in scam are made Governors of some state of made central ministers or made Director of banks or CEO of public sector undertakings because leaders of Congress Party are in habit of rewarding flatterers and torturing opponents by hook or by crook. Though Manmohan “Singh is said to be Doctor in Economics , economy of our country during his period of reformation has given great disservice to Nation, greater pain to common men and caused unprecedented loss to the country .
6. Spokesmen of Congress Party have in general become shameless and bent upon puncturing the movement launched by Baba Ramdeo and Anna Hazare only by loudly crying that BJP and RSS are behind Civil Society member. It is unfortunate that the pious word like democracy and secularism are used by leaders of Congress party to commit impious and evil work and to commit their culture of corruption. It is Congress Party which strangulated democracy by imposing emergency on 26th of May1975 and by arresting all opponents .It is Congress Party which ignored and misused secularism,. Constitution and the spirit of Parliamentary democracy when it allowed Sikh riot taking place uninterrupted for a week all over the country sitting at Delhi in power, which allowed Babri Masjit demolition in 1986 and which ignored Supreme Court order by amending the Constitution in Shah Bano case.
7. Many countries in the world have already initiated action to stop exodus of money from their country for parking in other countries. China like country has formulated new rules to bring back black money parked in foreign banks like Swiss Bank but India shows their helplessness in this line , Why? It is bad luck that CWC has proposed tough stand against Civil Society Members. They have forgotten that public have voted them to power and public can uproot them from power if they like so. And civil society is nothing but effective part of public and they have every right to propose good ideas and it is the duty of the government to listen their views honestly.
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