Team Anna has finally decided to float their party. Though
it is good news that people who have been fighting against corruption have finally
decided to fight from within. There are many view points as to whether the team
will actually deliver what it has been asking for, for many months. There is
also skepticism as to whether the team will actually come to power.
The Lokpal Bill that
Team Anna is talking about has been much discussed in the Parliament and
different people have different opinion about it. Not only the Govt. officials
but many other people have problems related to the bill. As Magsaysay Award
winner Aruna Roy
has pointed out “you could say that the Maoists and the Jan Lokpal Bill have
one thing in common – they both seek the overthrow of the Indian State",
and "While his means may be Gandhian, Anna Hazare's demands are certainly
not. Contrary to Gandhiji's ideas about the decentralization of power, the Jan
Lokpal Bill is a draconian, anti-corruption law, in which a panel of carefully
chosen people will administer a giant bureaucracy”. Though people might say a lot of good or bad
things about Jan Lokpal Bill, it is
here to stay.
But all this is important only when we realize what they are
pitching for and what if, they really deliver what have been asking for. Let us
be true to ourselves and ask “Are we ready for a no corruption society?” Are we
not creating and indulging into corruption in everyday’s life? How many of us
take bills from the chemist to save the sales tax? And how many of those
chemists are paying that VAT to the Govt. The big chunk of traders in Delhi are
not paying their sales taxes properly and saving themselves crore and crores of
money. The bribes offered in offices, hospitals and courts to get your work done
earlier than it ideally should be. This was just an example. There are numerous
cases of such things happening in our daily life and we might need to
understand that if all this said above, actually happens not just politicians
and sarkari babus but we all have to
improve ourselves. We have to understand, that corruption happening at the sarkari level is not just done by
politicians but people like us. I just want to say that now if we really want
to take this thing forward and if those of us who have supported Team Anna,
lets try and be corruption free at individual level.
