Logic(sic) behind Government's Lokpal Bill

Hearty congratulations to everyone on the eve of Independence Day!

This day holds special memories of my childhood days at my village school. As school kids, on this day, we used to go round our village in a procession called ‘Prabhat Pheri’- shouting ‘Vande Mataram’, ‘Bharat maata Ki Jay’ and cheerfully waving the paper flags. It used to fill me with the spirit of a warrior! Sitting in their thatched houses and broken huts, the smiling villagers used to wave at us and their kids would come running and join the procession. More than four decades have passed and this tradition of ‘Prabhat Pheri’ is now no more observed.

In these four decades, most of the thatched houses have now taken the shape of pucca house with concrete ceiling. But the connecting roads, open drainage, waste-pit, drinking water facility remains the same and electricity that remains elusive; it hasn’t changed much in all these years. Yes, here and there, some influential people have certainly made their presence felt by encroaching upon the public property!

The change, or, the status quo in development of our village very well depicts what India achieved in all these years post-independence. Same must hold true for all other villages, barring the lucky few- having a co-villager with them like Anna Hazare or a sponsor like Sai Baba or a few high profile politicians who have done something for their constituency as compulsion!

 As is being debated for quite some time now, the real reason behind our poor development is -corruption. No doubts; we all have encountered it, encouraged it, used and abused it – at some point of our life, in one form or the other. I would be surprised if someone tells me that he or she hasn’t experienced it!

The tussle that is going on between the Team Anna Hazare and GOI on Lokpal Bill needs to be looked with special vision (the Government thinks so)! While Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejariwal and Kiran Bedi are crying hoarse about the fact that the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers, MPs, MLAs, municipal councilors, sarpanches, judges, all state government employees, all Group B, Group C and group D employees of the central government - are out of the jurisdiction of Government’s Lokpal Bill; government is trying hard to give some logic(sic) to it, but we the common people and the TEAM ANNA perhaps are unable to understand the governments logic and idea!

To me, it seems that after all deliberations with its erudite ministers and secretaries, government has decided to stem out the rot – right at the roots! That's why, it has exempted all the heads and everyone who play a big role in money minting. Buck will ultimately stop at the door-steps of the common man, the grass root of democracy!

Am I Right, Sirji?

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