India against Corruption - are we moving from democracy to oligarchy?
The level of corruption in India
has reached unimaginable level. So, it is quite natural that the youth has rallied behind Mr. Anna Hazare 
and team in their drive against corruption.
But, the rhetoric that I hear in the video clips makes me to think about a few things, first, yes the politicians in our nation is really corrupt everyone knows that, but you think that the bug stops there? Aren't others equally corrupt?
Former CJI Justice (?) Balakrishnan is not a politician, ex-CVC Thomas is not a politician, Shaid Balwa is not a politician, all the IAS / IPS officers who are being arrested for having crores of rupees are not politicians. Your Thalisdar who will not give you your certificate without a cutting or the doctor who gets the salary from the government hospital but visits you only on his clinic is not a politician.
So isn't it a bit scary that we are proposing to set up an all powerful authority who can dictate as to how things should be run in this country? what is the guaranty that corruption will not reach that small group? Remember it has reached the CVC and CJI. Yes, there is a provision that cases against the officers of Lok Pal will also be tried by the lok pal and action will be taken within 2 months, but will that actually work? I am more skeptical because of what we see in real life. One of friend who is a practicing advocate told me once, that it is tough to prove medical negligence in many case as not many doctors, if not none, will be ready to depose against another doctor. What if the same thing happens with the members of Lokpal?
In democracy we at-least have an hope that we can change things in next election, but in an oligarchy we don't have that hope either. So, I think instead of getting emotional about the whole issue, we should actually be debating on what should be there in the proposed law, the debate should be a nationwide one.
Yes, it will delay the passing of the bill, but its better than having a wrong bill.
Fast justice is good in Rajinikanth movie, but in real life, I guess slow and steady wins the race.
has reached unimaginable level. So, it is quite natural that the youth has rallied behind Mr. Anna Hazare and team in their drive against corruption.But, the rhetoric that I hear in the video clips makes me to think about a few things, first, yes the politicians in our nation is really corrupt everyone knows that, but you think that the bug stops there? Aren't others equally corrupt?
Former CJI Justice (?) Balakrishnan is not a politician, ex-CVC Thomas is not a politician, Shaid Balwa is not a politician, all the IAS / IPS officers who are being arrested for having crores of rupees are not politicians. Your Thalisdar who will not give you your certificate without a cutting or the doctor who gets the salary from the government hospital but visits you only on his clinic is not a politician.
So isn't it a bit scary that we are proposing to set up an all powerful authority who can dictate as to how things should be run in this country? what is the guaranty that corruption will not reach that small group? Remember it has reached the CVC and CJI. Yes, there is a provision that cases against the officers of Lok Pal will also be tried by the lok pal and action will be taken within 2 months, but will that actually work? I am more skeptical because of what we see in real life. One of friend who is a practicing advocate told me once, that it is tough to prove medical negligence in many case as not many doctors, if not none, will be ready to depose against another doctor. What if the same thing happens with the members of Lokpal?
In democracy we at-least have an hope that we can change things in next election, but in an oligarchy we don't have that hope either. So, I think instead of getting emotional about the whole issue, we should actually be debating on what should be there in the proposed law, the debate should be a nationwide one.
Yes, it will delay the passing of the bill, but its better than having a wrong bill.
Fast justice is good in Rajinikanth movie, but in real life, I guess slow and steady wins the race.
