Dear Anna hazare , first of all I would like to thank you for reminding us that we still lives in a democracy. Thank you for providing tooth to the lok janpal bill which seemed toothless.Now it would be interesting to see whether it is able to bite or not .I would also like to congratulate you on your quassi victory over corruption . Yes , I call it quassi as the task of drafting the bill & nailing down the perpetrators is still distant . Well , certainly your determination has reminded me of Mr. Gandhi , who once said "a small body of determined spirits fired by unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history"
As your committee is all set to draft the bill , please pay attention to these details.
I would like to bring to your attention the year 1991 when panchayat was formed for the betterment of villages . Power was vested in the hands of villagers to improve their condition .Had it done any better . Indeed yes , it has spread corruption to the grass root level .
Lokpal is a 3 member body consisting of a former chief justice & assisted by 2 supreme court judges or high court chief justice . Your committee wants the assisted members to be a social activist who have won Ramon magsaysay award . But let me bring to your attention Gautam goswami , Bihar cadre IAS officer who won the Ramon magsaysay award & was Time's people of the year in 2004 but was found later involved in the flood scam. So , don't limit the selection of members on a award / service basis .
One day while I was going through bazaar I met with a surreal response from a man in relation to your fight against corruption ."pehle ek aadmi khata tha ab committee wala bhi khayega".Even chief justice like K G Balakrishnan are not spared. He was involved in holding large chunks of land . So how can we be safe whether committee does justice.
People like you and Gandhi rarely walks down the earth , who lived their lives for others (readers attention : they have been compared on this ground only .plz do not misconstrue). But for rest of us , all of whom are corrupted in some way or the other including your supporters such as baba ramdev whose trust & ayurvedic units are solely headed by his relatives & Swami Agnivesha for his involvement in blast case . Its high time we criticize govt. for its mistake . Things just won’t work by copying lokpal bill from scandinavian countries . we should copy their attitudes in performing duties .
Until or unless we are not a sensible citizens even thousand committees like this will vanish into thin air. If we are a sensible citizen we won't need a committee like this. It’s time to wake not fast.
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