Corruption – surprisingly is on nobody’s mind

Yesterday, I just saw the last 2/3 minutes of the Karan Thapar show and was surprised to hear that the issue of corruption is not an issue for any of the political parties. It seems that BJP has mentioned it on page 40 of their manifesto while Congress and CPI don’t even talk about it. Without controlling the rampant corruption in our country, our country will not be able to progress. In spite of the fact that commercialization of residential properties as well as illegal construction becoming a very big issue with Supreme Court giving strict instruction to all involved, it still is happening in Delhi. How will we ever make progress?

Let us analyze why corruption happens? Most of the time, corruption results when

(a) Something illegal is being done. If one can get away with whatever illegality corruption has resulted in, more of it keeps happening.

(b) When bureaucrats do not work and people have to pay to get their work done.

So the solution lies in strengthening our judicial and law enforcement system so that no one is able to get away with an illegal act. Just to give you an example, if the first man who opened a commercial establishment in a residential area was stopped and dealt with the law of the land, further illegal acts of commercialization would not have happened.

whenever I contest an election and God forbid I win, all my effort will be to strengthen the judicial and law enforcement system. Some of the actions that I will take are as follows:

(a) Upper limits to be established within which all cases should be decided.
(b) Increase the budget of the judiciary so that more courts are built and more judges are appointed. We all know that some innocent people are languishing in jail for even petty crimes just because our legal system does not move fast enough.
(c) Allocate more money and training for the police. As the Arushi case clearly bought out, the investigative capability of our local law enforcement agencies is for all practical purpose non-existent.

If I had a political party, I would make this one of our primary agenda. Actually, if you look at it every action that you take to eradicate corruption it would automatically improve the governance that everybody is so found of talking about.

So if corruption is not in the manifesto of any political party, we are doomed. We should actually not be voting for that political party because we can assume that either the party is not aware of the ground reality or it actually supports the corrupt system that we have in this country.

Avinash Narula