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(Jan) Lok pal

by Karthik on Aug.18, 2011, under India, Politics

Pretty serious topic from a political novice. I’m going to try my best to put this subject into perspective.

We all know that all most whole of India is taking sides with Anna or Govt. Have you made up your mind yet? Check this link out. I just came across this today and it got me wondering, this is exactly why I never felt like choosing sides.. with out knowing the depth of whats actually going on on both sides.

If you are supporting Anna, can you tell me why exactly you are doing so? Cos the government has not turned down Lok pal bill, they just have a list of reasons why it can’t be the way Anna wants! Now do you know what that list of things they are disagreeing on? There is obviously lot of voices for Jan Lok pal. But its not the case with Lok pal. Mainly because not many knows what the difference is!

Don’t get me wrong I myself got to know the supposed difference just today; or so I think. And that’s what triggered me to find out more.

Don’t get me wrong I want nothing more than clean India. Why wouldn’t I? Its just that why people just judge the entire story just by its caption. Most of the Facebook supporters just got the caption that “Anna is fighting for Corruption free India! Awesome.. I need to show my support!” All I’m saying is people please dig deeper.

I’m not saying cut a slack for Congress, the whole CWG, 2G and other scams went down right under their nose! They deserve every bit they are going thru.. but we showing our support knowing everything about it will certainly speed up the process.

Its healthy and brilliant that people feel strongly against corruption and they want to do their bit by supporting Anna. I personally have felt sad for quite some time that India has never been a country that can see through a revolution ever since 1947. This bill could just be that. India as this generation has seen it has never been a proactive fighter. It has always played safe and slow.

Fight against terrorism – Slow and diplomatic

Realizing 1000s of crores swindled right under our nose – Slow and diplomatic

To hang Kasab or not – Ahh.. lets take a couple of years.. whats the hurry?

Its sometime good to jump into a fight and then be proved wrong. It at least shows we have nerves.

If what Pragati has mentioned in its post is complete truth, I still say the current system had its chance and it blew it big time. Lets make this mistake and give complete control to Jan lokpal and find out. Cos generally any system would take some time to get corrupt, like ours took a few decades to get where it is right now. And moreover we need to RREEAALLLYYY concentrate on our economy and corruption should not even be in our thought if we are ever going to make it big by 2020. Sometimes an unknown angel is better than a known devil. This system blew it the best way it could. I mean come on.. arrest someone for a peaceful rally? so lets take the leap of faith! On that regards, lets not go to work with what we have.. Make something new damn it! I say

Lokpal 0 – Jan Lokpal 1.

4 Comments for this entry

Neha
August 18th, 2011 on 8:39 pm
I posted a long comment and it disappeared!

I read the Jan lokpal bill when it came out, and realized there were so many loopholes in it. How can you have anyone above the PM or Supreme court? What if the lokpal becomes corrupt? What if Sharad Pawar becomes the lokpal? Well he can bribe and become one, you may never know.

I have blogged about it twice already. All we can do is hope that people think before they support any cause blindly!
Karthik
August 18th, 2011 on 8:46 pm
Exactly my point. People need to research before they pick sides. And thats the problem, There can only be 1 supreme power. where its the court or the lok pal, what matters is are corrupt people able to penetrate? If they are it anyway does not make a difference if supreme court is above or under. As for PM, he might not have a hand in the corruption, but to let it to this extent right under his governance is incompetent! Can’t permit that, can we?
Naveen Roy
August 19th, 2011 on 12:29 pm
But thats what democracy is – its power is in its people. Even now, we have, I think, enough ammunition to take down corruption. But do the people have the guts to do it? How will this change even after the (Jan)LokPal is enacted? And how is the (Jan)LokPal going to be any different? What if, as it is now in various sections of bureaucracy, the (Jan)LokPal becomes corrupt? It cannot be questioned, remember?
Karthik
August 19th, 2011 on 2:47 pm
Yea, obviously Jan lok pal bill is not a Harry potter wand. At the end of the day its humans putting things in place. Corruption is certainly going to find its roots. But people need to research before they question the bill. This bill is only the beginning. Its not the whole system, but the fact is that the current system is not competent enough.