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Showing posts with label Nation. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Irony of Corrupt Nation - A Two Year Revolution?

Remember the campaign by Indian Against Corruption, the stage set for the revolution under the leadership of Shri Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejrival, and others. The protests and high pitch action at Delhi transformed the force against the congress regime which was later picked up by the leading opposition party for an political opportunity. The seats of power was later unseated by the steady political campaign and later seeds of anti-corruption force gained power in the centre and state. The present government has benefited from the anger of the middle class on the political governance of the nation.

The theme of anti-corruption rules the political dialogue among the power circles when the ruling party charges again and again for its desire to remove corruption from the nation. From political cause to general corruption indicator, the developing nation like India continues to be branded corrupt and unethical. The free market economy and globalization era also led to opening of the economy to transnational corporations. The political class on the other land found lucrative to attempt intrusion of the MNC towards its economy. But all these also required earning the goodwill of the government by bribing the ministers and bureaucrats. Where else you can find the corruption promoted to facilitate the private players to have play in the market and capture the consumer early. In most of the cases the government is biggest consumer with most of the private players wanted the share of government sector which was thrown open to privatised.

The telecom, railways, road, banks, power and consumer goods were segments were disinvestment were made and red carpet was allocated to private players. The capital investment of any sorts were required to be translated on ground through benefiting the political parties in power. The parties with increasing cost of election, keeping electorate happy and purchasing the votes tend to indulge in easy money and thereby increased the corrupt nation image in world.

The current government even though tries to erase the image of the corrupt nation the basic ingredients remains same the political parties are vary from getting donation through legitimate means. The electoral reforms and resultant political expenditure has not led to reduction in corrupt practices. The evidence of the selecting and electing the 'money bags' means people who are rich and can spend amount required to be candidate is preferred over others. What must be changed is the manner in which the political parties  collecting funds from various sources. The corruption is among the government function not on the common citizens. The large brokers are more serious crime than pitty brokers with Rs.100 charge on their services. The image of country is tarnished with close nexus between the government servents, politicians and businessman. This has not reduced infact they act as gate keepers in order to control the flow of people towards decision makers. They make access to decision makers difficult. You cannot run enterprise with straight face, you must be humble to people in power.

They are the one who decides your fate, the two year massaih of people who keeps on reminding 60 plus year of corrupt nation must understand the greed of market based economy, The ever corrupt system is due to urge of the economic players to maximise the profit with minimum investment. The corrupt nation tag is not due to people and common person who simply wants to have poor interface with government. The connection with the government due to its subsidised nature of governance must be reduced. The transfer of the power to people has not happened and its difficult to make the government offices respond to people needs efficiently. The political parties cannot be only torch bearers, but unfortunatly they have taken the role of being sole authority and with little understanding of the national character they are likely to come back to same old tactics.

The people who started the anti-corruption drive is on side lines and one of serious opposition to the current government shows the fragmentation and ideological divide on who is fighting against the graft. The fall back on the current leadership also indicates the heads needs to be counted on the faces of new corrupt systems. The two year also resulted in the corrupt practices with more government departments getting private players and tenders being rigged to protect and provide for particular suppliers.

The lobby system works in market economy, the planned system gone its only money which is available to flow.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Polarising INDIA: Nationalist Debate

Despite decision to stop the blog for some time to observe the development, I have been now forced to resume the thoughts that come across due to timely news regarding the political parties meant to polarise the society.

The national aspiration of one politician and his clout in political party directs the nation now, the people would fall into the trap laid nicely by the much popular Gujarat CM. The agenda from disasters and economic melt down of India is supposed to take back seat, so is corruption with monster communal politics. The agenda of the persons and their success in dividing the country along the political lines has enough materials to create the vertical split.

Be it the society, political parties, businesses, government institutions et al would be now engaged in defining their nationalist colour from saffron to green. The promotion of hindutva ideologies are now getting mixed with philosophies of Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel etc, and them being brought to the discussion to suit the personal political agenda.

The country is shamed once again by the simple debate, whether the political leadership needs to apologize to citizens who suffered by the actions of rioters in year 2002? The administrative failure is evident yet the parties concern in power does not feel enough for the loss of life, or properties. The head is held high enough to prove the power of so called 'hindu nationalism'. The image of India polarised again on the communal lines would call for sacrifice from the nationalists, not able to agree to divisive idea of India. The political parties needs to restrain itself from falling into the trap laid down by RSS to seek mandate on their ideologies.

Why a organisation is above constitution of India? Why not they accept the philosophy of the nation granted by erstwhile leaders? If they find any flaw in our constitution let them come out as political agenda. Lets stop this social re-engineering by polarising societies. We have lot of tasks to be done, development concerns are real, and world would be watching us along with our enemies. Nation needs debate on development rather than the political conflicts which polarises society.