While the whole government is against the agitation of India Against Corruption under the leadership of Anna Hajare, there is hardly any Member of Legislation who actually supports the Janlokpal Bill proposed by Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Kiran Bedi and Santosh Hegde. Yet, most of the politicians in opposition refrained from directly opposing and criticizing Anna Hajare and his agitation against corruption. The few MLAs who decided to attack the IAC and Anna Hajare included Lalu Prasad Yadav, the former chief minister of Bihar and the president of Rashtriya Janta Dal. It is not very difficult to understand why he is against the Ombudsman bill as proposed by the civil society and why he considers the bill proposed by government is much better, reliable and proper. What Lalu Prasad Yadav says against Anna Hajare and ombudsman bill proposed by civil society IAC? Lalu Prasad Yadav was venomously criticizing Baba Ramdev calling him thug and corrupt and he also criticized Anna Hajare abusing him of being corrupt and tyrant and so on. He says that the bill proposed by …Read the Rest
Tag: Corruption in India
The Root of Corruption
While everybody opposes political corruption, yet it is very difficult to remove it without understanding the root cause of corruption. The root of corruption is the corrupt political system and its corrupt working. The current political system itself encourages corruption which cannot be checked by any ombudsman bill. The biggest corruption is forced taxation. Taxation is nothing but legalized extortion as government forcibly takes away the hard earned money from the honest and hardworking citizens. It is extortion because the public has no choice and they are forced to pay taxation or to suffer consequential punishments. Taxation is extortion because while government has legalized forcible theft of people’s money, it never think of providing any guarantee for proper allocation and redistribution of that collective money which is forcibly robbed from individuals. While a common innocent citizen is taught that paying taxes is good and honesty towards the society and the nation. Do the citizens realize that forcible taxation not only hurt and reduce the rate of progress of a country but also, taxation encourages corruption? How Taxation increases corruption? While …Read the Rest
Why Manmohan Singh said no to PM under Lokpal Bill
Last month, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh claimed that he has no objection in accepting the demand of Civil Society to keep the Prime Minister Office within the ambit of proposed Jan Lokpal Bill, Mr. Anna Hajare praised him and said that India is fortunate to get such an honest prime minister. He is the same prime minister who claimed that the honesty of prime minister and wife of Julius Ceaser should remain beyond doubts. However, it is certainly difficult for anyone to believe that Manmohan Singh remain innocent, ignorant and honest while almost every second politician of his central government was committing scam, corruption and crime. This doubt grew dense last week when A. Raja, the prime excused of 2G Spectrum scam claimed that whatever he did was under direct purview of Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram, who was then finance minister of India. And now, Manmohan Singh further deepened the mystery by claiming that after studying all aspects of Lokpal Bill and functionality of government, he is against the proposal of keeping prime minister and PMO under the …Read the Rest
