Corruption is the result of continued occupation of the helm of the society/ country by the people who are not concerned about the people. Without going in to the history of it like who started it first or when did it start first; I would like to say that corruption in India after independence has ruined the country but equaly its the attitude of high handedness. You go to the office and ask for some thing . . . the question session will culminate on "who are you"? They are not asking your identity card, they are asking how high handed are you? If you are just a common man, you go to hell! You are not going to be heard untill unless you are having a solid support behind you.
Both corruption and high handedness go hand in hand at least in India. Similar people are indulged in both - they are people in power, authority, greedy and igonarant. RTI has helped up to some extent but as I term it, its like belling the cat! IAS people who are responsible for any work in this country, are the most ignorant and insensitive lot towards the common mass (as some times its said thatn doctors are not sensitive towards patients' difficulties!).
Recently few inactions by governments are the indications that time is turning. If the masterly inactivity of the central government is to be taken to the best optimistic note, people like Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Pranav Mukherjee, Chidambaram and Ahluwalia are as clean as pure (GANGA JAL) water. No one can expect them to be involved in any type of wrong doing . . . And they are not protecting any one too . . . Start from arrest of the MCI chief Dr. Desai to the 2G and 3G spectrum scams . . . their attitude has been of masterly inactivity.
On the top of all this statements of Sonial Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at the congress plenary and their 5 fold plan against corruption shows that at least they are not going to keep quite on corruprion . . . Looking at A. Raja's episode, it apears that he had hijacked the government . . . misguided and arm - twisted them . . . But looking at the Gandhis' yesterday's statements and actions of CBI in last few days, it has been sign of a new dawn in the administrative erena of India.
If it goes like this, I am sure corrupt, ignorant, non- concerned people will not be any more in the mainstream of the adminstration . . . is my optimistic hope. I am also hopefull because Central government is not alone. Bihar government under the leadership of Nitish Kumar is also taking similar rather more bold action. I am hopefull that it will be followed by the other states.
But, as we were worried about the outcome of the 2010 Bihar assembly elections, we will have to think of whether such people (like the 5 calling the shots in the central government named above) will be able to survive in the sea of corrupt system/ society . . . Will they not need full security from the side of sensible intellectuals . . .
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