April 5th 2011, a new day began with a very strong mission, Anna Hazare's mission to get government's approval to re-draft the Lokpal bill which currently gives complete freedom to the politicians to decide who should be investigated, by whom and what should be the consequences.Lokpal bill has failed to impress the members of the Rajya Sabha for the past 42 years now. This bill with its weak contents has been drafted and proposed by the government until now. Jan Lokpal bill is a slightly different anti-corruption bill than Lokpal bill. This bill, drafted by the prestigious civil society members, and not by the government, grants a speedy action against corruption cases at all levels and against everyone including ministers and senior bureaucrats. "Until the civil society steps in to draft the bill, nothing will change" says Anna.
One of the salient features of this bill is that the Jan Lokpal committee will be completely independent of government interventions and free from all the politicians' influence at all times during the investigations. This committee will be transparent in its workings and complete any kind of criminal investigation within one year of the incident. Every criminal will get a punishment with a minimum of 5 years upto life-long imprisonment.
When the PM, Manmohan Singh announced that the government has no time to take measures till next month, 72-year old, Anna decided to take matters in his hand. Like all previous times, this time his tool of protest was none other than "hunger strike". Not much has changed since the last time he was on a mission except for the scale of his battle - this time involving every citizen of the country. This is just a beginning ... hopefully people's staunch support and enthusiasm will stay with Anna till this bill is finally passed.
After the five day fasting struggle of the strong-willed Anna, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 9th, 2011, has agreed for the re-drafting of the bill and also promised to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill in the 2011 monsoon session of parliament.
Just like the entire country single-mindedly got together to support Team India bring home the World Cup 2011, it's time again for us Indians to join hands this time with Anna Hazare and stand by him in his mission against bhrashtachar (corruption).
Let's all continue to support Anna's fight for a corruption-free India!
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Kudos to every Indian who has and will support Anna in this fight. We need to learn he is not fighting for himself but our generations to come. India is suppose to be one of the most progressing country, but we are not realizing the faster we are moving ahead, 'termites' politicians and bureaucrats are eating away every benefits for normal being faster.
ReplyDeleteOnce again Jigs a beautiful job of putting this together.
Thanks Neelu ...
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