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| Anna’s movement doesn’t benefit Jammu & Kashmir | | Cancer Of Corruption | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 10: The Congress-led UPA Government has been shown its rightful place. It has conceded all the demands put forth by Anna Hazare, issued a notification regarding the constitution and composition of the Joint Committee charged with the responsibility of drafting Jan Lokpal Bill (Bill aimed at removing the cancer of corruption from the country’s body-politic) and announced that the Jan Lokpal Bill will be introduced in the Parliament in the coming Monsoon session. The cornered and isolated government had to take a complete U-turn and accept the Anna’s demands because he had virtually brought it to its knees. Had the government not conceded his demands, it would have surely collapsed under the mounting public pressure.
In other words, Anna Hazare has scored his first splendid victory at the national level, barring the solitary State of Jammu and Kashmir, notwithstanding the fact that the suffering people of the State also contributed a little bit to the success of the 63-year-old Anna. He has described his success as the people’s success and declared that “it is just the beginning” and that the “nation has to work with a single-minded demotion for many, many years to cleanse the Indian political system.” He is absolutely right. After all, he and his ardent supporters across the country have to deal with a political class and bureaucracy that is corrupt to the core and that has polluted everything at every level. It is an extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and only an extraordinary action at the national level is needed to end the menace of corruption and cleanse the polity. His warning that he would again launch a movement on August 15 in the event of the government not passing the Jan Lokpal Bill by that D-day has to be viewed in this context. He is fully aware of the difficulties he and the nation are likely to face. The rotten political class and corrupt bureaucracy would not yield ground that easily.
However, one thing is loud and clear: A process has been set-into-motion and it would one day culminate in a major transformation in the Indian political system. The people – men, women, elderly people and the school, college and university going students – have realized their power; they have realized that they can change the world if they fight as one man against the corrupt system. That the arrogant government had to go beyond the constitutional confines in order to accommodate the Anna’s demands constitutes just one glaring example.
What about Jammu and Kashmir, which is not part of the national mainstream? The State is governed by a political class that deliberately holds the people aloof from the national mainstream, as it helps it exploit the situation in the manner it likes. It is not accountable to anyone. In fact, we have in the State a local oligarchy under which the political class is the chief determinant and common people no more than subjects, not citizens in the real sense of the term. There is no touch between the ruler and the ruled. And, remember, ours’ is the second most corrupt State in the country – State where many, many paupers turned multi-millionaire overnight. There are people who say that ours’ is the most corrupt State in the country and that the Transparency Internal India is wrong when it adjudges the State as the second most corrupt State in the country. There are reasons to endorse this suggestion of this category of people.
Jammu and Kashmir is the only State in the country to which the Central laws are not automatically applicable. The State enjoys extraordinary legislative powers under the controversial, anti-democratic and anti-people Article 370. It is not bound to accept any Central legislation. It is its prerogative to accept or not to accept any of the Central legislations. It is extremely doubtful if that the State’s corrupt political class and arrogant bureaucracy would accept the Jan Lokpal Act as and when enacted by the Parliament. Anna Hazare must take cognizance of this STARK REALITY and refashion his strategy accordingly. He has to tour the State to create a situation that forces the State’s political class to become part of the national mainstream. He would do well to remember that his movement has not benefited the suffering people of the state and that he would commit a folly if he focuses his attention on the country, barring Jammu and Kashmir.
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