Just imagine a family where everyone is but corrupted. More precisely, what will you think of them if they are morally corrupted. And our bane is living in a country where most of them are corrupted. Corruption is not limited to financial transactions or details. What about moral corruption? Our nation is not an exception with regard to corruption, but that is not an excuse for bailing out our corrupt leaders and bureaucrats. You may say every nation is corrupted and the only difference is the relative differences in corruption index. I am sorry, my countrymen, if you continue to believe so.
Let us take a look at the recent newspaper exclusives. I wonder if you can pass a day without hearing the word ‘corruption’ either in print media or mass television media. Why does it happen? The recent incidents of corruption are Commonwealth Games financial irregularities, Adarsh Housing scam and the 2G spectrum scam. There were many earlier like the Bofors payoff deal (during Rajiv Gandhi’s regime), the hawala transactions and JMM bribery scandals (during Narasimha Rao’s regime), the Kargil coffin scam (during Vajpayee’s regime) and now the recent three (during Manmohan Singh’s regime). There are many other scams happened within state limits with national implications, but I don’t mention any now. The most notable thing is most of these scams or corrupt details took place when the Congress party ruled out nation. It doesn’t mean Congress party per se is corrupted, but the point is corruption was institutionalized the most during their rule.
Let us come back to the present regime. Manmohan Singh, personally, is one of the cleanest politicians or prime ministers to rule our country. (Or, is he the only one?) However, it does not mean that his government as a whole in sanitized against corruption. Of course, none of his party colleagues in the Cabinet were involved in any mass visible corruption. We must appreciate him for that. Or, we have to wait for a few more years before the skeletons tumbling out of the cupboard.The most recent 2G spectrum scam is a thorn in Manmohan’s flesh. Poor Prime Minister! He is helpless owing to the coalition compulsions. But to protect his credentials as a clean man, he needs to act and act urgently by sacking the tainted minister. We have to wait and see if he can ever do that.
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very true....steps to curb corruption has to be more pragmatic....conviction rate in corruption cases is bare minimum....preventive vigilance and punitive measures to be intensified.... trends of institutionalisation of corruption in our country is the biggest challenge....this may have adverse impact on our dream of becoming developed country.....
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