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| Unrestrained corruption ? | | | Dr. K K PANGOTRA | 4/4/2012 10:53:53 PM |
| Beside some other issues corruption mainly dominated the recently concluded legislative assembly session of Jammu and Kashmir. The issue of a scam in Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association rocked the assembly. The main aggressor was the PDP (People's Democratic Party). Increasing resentment of common man at the ground, alleged involvement of ministers in corruption and occupation of government land both at national and at state level and seating of some corrupt officials and bureaucrats on corruption prone chairs gave this issue in the hands of opposition. The government remained in the witness box and at the same time seemed trying to search the possibilities to escape from the discussion holding irrelevant logics of expenditure on assembly proceeding, threats of privilege motion, condemning the pandemonium and so no. The opposition sought the quick exist of corrupt ministers from the cabinet. Irritation of National Panthers Party (NPP) was no less in comparison. This sector was demanding judicious probe into the suspicious death of a ruling national conference wor-ker and payment of cash by the deceased to NC and even dismissal of present state government through media. The politicians in government not only tried to glorify and illuminate the face of government in the house but also outside when they were attending non-government seminars, symposia and other such functions.
But the corruption is the Bhasmasur and the government is running in afraid of the self created demon. The tainted ministers in government are in stocked. Even after the final day of the present assembly session the opposition is in piquancy. The main reason is mostly corruption. The opposition is feeling the pulse of common man but the corruption has undoubtedly no political party. If it had dominated the Jammu and Kashmir assembly session, it can too dominate the other states.
More than for the last two decades, since the policies and planning of government at the centre are pressurised by priva-tisation, liberalisation and globalisation, the menace of corruption didn't spare even a single political party, not only to the so called secular Indian National Congress but BJP, the self styled party with a difference is also in the grip. If we observe some recent attacks and counter attacks relating to corruption in the country we find that in UP the Congress besieged the BSP on the issue of National Health Mission scam and BSP did the same against congress headed UPA while exposing the scams amounting to twenty lac thousand crore approximately in sixty two scams in the last two and a half years, whereas there is an information of one more corruption case registered against BJP stalwart and farmer Karnataka Chief Minister Yedurappya. If we review Jammu and Kashmir, both NC and congress are not out of question. Some ministers of both the parties are besieged by the allegations of corruption. Chief Minister Omar Abdulah charged PDP of sledging over the National Conference. Congress seems to be opportunist. The main tussle is between PDP and NC. Congress can adjust with both NC and PDP in need to share the power. Bhartiya Janta Party being supporter and protector of nationalism in the country has been chased by both the regional parties i.e. PDP and NC. The small parties wanted election after the dismissal of present coalition government. The reason behind such a demand was certainly presumed as corruption and only corruption but there is hardly any hope of restraining it in future. But where is the reality? Has any political party sympathy with the life on footpath, in slums and under thatch and open sky? Or is the tactics of politicians only cunningness to attract, misguide and mislead the selfish, profiteering and toady middle class on the basis of caste, community, religion and region? If deeply observed the thrust for power comfort and amenity is the prime objective of the politics and the political players today. Someone wants power at the top whereas some parties are worried to seek power for endless years and some others have appetite for minister ship. Politics today is a clear carrier not public service. Gone the characters like Lal Bahadur Shastri and if someone nearer to him, even to a very smallest extent, can't win the election. In case if it happens, he can't assume a respectful place except to go on corner among the grown snatch or die tendency of the political players. No doubt, in the country and in Jammu and Kashmir too, some new laws are worthy to be welcomed but the question also arises as to how the old laws proved ineffective? For the last sixty years many subsequent, subsidiary and new laws with many institutions has had been framed and established to combat the menace of corruption but mostly of no use. In Jammu and Kashmir too, Chief Minister is at present feeling happy in counting the prophesied achievements of introducing Right to Information, bringing Public Service Guarantee Act and establishing Vigilance Commission in the state. The question is, will the framing of law, establishing the institutions and ostensive show only eradicate the corruption? No. The sensitivity and demand of time, no doubt, calls for new provisions, laws and regulations but if the executors remain the dishonest, any stern and effective law will certainly prove defunct. The post and process is only reformist not revolutionary. In the present system the worldly and material ambitions have permanent nature having no way to get salvation from corruption. That is why the corruption at present is unrestrained. None can get rid of dishonest and dishonesty. Some one has rightly remarked, "The wicked and dishonest can search a way of dishonest earning even if he is assigned the idle task to count the tides arising from the sea." What one can do if the operator of a device made to read the speed of a coming vehicle on the road is dishonest? It is astonishing that peoples at the helm of power when assembled in the house try to be evasive from the issues relating to corruption! |
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