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Comments posted on Times of India website over news story:It is
Parliament's job to make laws, Anna's fast misleading: Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
PM says: The question is who drafts the law and who passes the law.
Congress is trying to run on thin ice by hoodwinking people that the
real issue is who drafts the law. Who drafts the law is not as
important as what goes into the Law. Congress has numbers to railroad
whatever it chooses to become law. However, it is not prepared to go
under the severe kind of accountability that Anna Team's Jan Lokpal is
proposing as the barest minimum to reform the governance of the
country. Congress as well as all political parties appear to have an
vested interest in perpetuating the corruption ridden political
system. Whatever may be the pious proclamations and promises of the
Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he is after all part
of a well-defined constituency of political class, that will not
easily yield to public for any control on its freedom to rule without
an institutionalized oversight regime. To reform the system, there is
no other peaceful alternative in sight, other than the demands of Anna
Hazare who he is so overwhelmingly supported by the masses; fed up by
the depth of the corrosion that has corroded the very innards of the
entire system of governance. The amounts in scams and scandals are
mind-boggling. While common citizens are struggling to make two ends
meet, what with rampant inflation deliberately promoted in the name of
growth, people at strategic points in the system are looting public
money in staggering volumes. Anna has correctly tried to shame the
Prime Minister for his being part of such a corrupt system. He has
gained a lot from this system. Now he should work for the people and
come out with endorsement of a really effective Jan Lokpal bill that
should send shivers down the spine of the corrupt all over the
country. It therefore does not matter, who drafts the bill,
government, opposition or Anna Team, as long as the harsh realities of
reform and accountability are embedded into the law of the land. And
that's just the beginning. Congress is trying to make the issue as a
partisan game and trying to mobilise its supporters to fight BJP. That
is a false diagnosis of its present plight and state of affairs in the
country. If Congress plans to win back the trust and confidence of the
people, it must yield to public demand and move fast to give India the
wherewithal to ensure a clean future. The hour has struck. Congress
must rise to the occasion and go with the masses by giving them a new
freedom from the drudgery of unchecked corrupt system. Public money is
sacred. Each and every rupee should be well spent, accounted and any
loophole that leads to corruption must be permanently sealed. All
culprits must be relentless brought to book and persecuted till the
public money is returned to the treasury and the criminal gets its
deserved punishment.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
Comments posted on Times of India website over news story:It is
Parliament's job to make laws, Anna's fast misleading: Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
PM says: The question is who drafts the law and who passes the law.
Congress is trying to run on thin ice by hoodwinking people that the
real issue is who drafts the law. Who drafts the law is not as
important as what goes into the Law. Congress has numbers to railroad
whatever it chooses to become law. However, it is not prepared to go
under the severe kind of accountability that Anna Team's Jan Lokpal is
proposing as the barest minimum to reform the governance of the
country. Congress as well as all political parties appear to have an
vested interest in perpetuating the corruption ridden political
system. Whatever may be the pious proclamations and promises of the
Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he is after all part
of a well-defined constituency of political class, that will not
easily yield to public for any control on its freedom to rule without
an institutionalized oversight regime. To reform the system, there is
no other peaceful alternative in sight, other than the demands of Anna
Hazare who he is so overwhelmingly supported by the masses; fed up by
the depth of the corrosion that has corroded the very innards of the
entire system of governance. The amounts in scams and scandals are
mind-boggling. While common citizens are struggling to make two ends
meet, what with rampant inflation deliberately promoted in the name of
growth, people at strategic points in the system are looting public
money in staggering volumes. Anna has correctly tried to shame the
Prime Minister for his being part of such a corrupt system. He has
gained a lot from this system. Now he should work for the people and
come out with endorsement of a really effective Jan Lokpal bill that
should send shivers down the spine of the corrupt all over the
country. It therefore does not matter, who drafts the bill,
government, opposition or Anna Team, as long as the harsh realities of
reform and accountability are embedded into the law of the land. And
that's just the beginning. Congress is trying to make the issue as a
partisan game and trying to mobilise its supporters to fight BJP. That
is a false diagnosis of its present plight and state of affairs in the
country. If Congress plans to win back the trust and confidence of the
people, it must yield to public demand and move fast to give India the
wherewithal to ensure a clean future. The hour has struck. Congress
must rise to the occasion and go with the masses by giving them a new
freedom from the drudgery of unchecked corrupt system. Public money is
sacred. Each and every rupee should be well spent, accounted and any
loophole that leads to corruption must be permanently sealed. All
culprits must be relentless brought to book and persecuted till the
public money is returned to the treasury and the criminal gets its
deserved punishment.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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