Corruption is the main hurdle before India
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
All who the potentials available in India are of the opinion that India can go ahead, but since most of the people who are having power in their hands are corrupt and that is the reason, the people of India could not space with countries which could develop and reach the highest stage during the last half a century. The people of India should have been happy because God had blessed them with all the basics which are the main things with which a country can go ahead. We know that we have mountains, rivers, minerals, fertile land, hard working people, rains, iron, coal, petroleum and all that which nature could provide to the man on this earth. That had been the reason this country of us had been known as a golden sparrow. But today we are counted in the line of developing countries and some people count us in the line of poor and backward countries. Some say that India is a crowd and some say the beggars are on the higher side. It is on record that some people had written that India is an open latrine because most of the houses in India were not having latrines and bath rooms in the houses and the people are obliged to go out for easing themselves and it is on record that most of the people had been waiting for a festival when they were able to have their bath.
When we were entering into the era of independence, Mahatma Gandhi was dreaming that India shall become Ram Rajaya. But Mahatma was not allowed to live and construct this country into Ram Rajaya. The people who took over from the imperialists were never interested converting India into Ram Rajaya and that had been the reason, they started working on the same lines where the imperialists had left this country. They adopted the same methods of working because they accepted most of the laws framed by the imperialists and they also accepted the main factor "divide and rule" and that is the reason first of all we had to face partition of India in which lakhs of people were killed and crores were forced to migrate to unknown places. Then we started and it is on record that we both the countries India and Pakistan had been having direct and indirect wars and then we started with indirect war of terrorism in which we had been killing innocent people. In addition tot his terrorism there had been riots and in those riots we again started killing our own people and we killed only those who were killed. This had been our way of working since independence and that had been the reason, we could not attain what we could attain during these last six decades.
And when the people on seats of power are not interested in our development, they started developing their own position and they started with the development of their own and that too on the financial side. They left the system of taking bribes because those amounts were on the small side. The poor people could not afford much. Therefore, they started with having encroachments into the state exchequer. They started indulging in scams, scandals, muddles, sale of quotas, sale of licences and the like and within days they could turn rich. Since they had been spending big amounts on elections, they were bound to collect more and more so that they could have sufficient funds with them in the next elections. We have been told that all those who joined with these people with power could collect huge money. If we go deep, we shall find that not more than thirty per cent had been spent on each project and the remaining seventy per cent had been eaten away by those who had been planning projects, who had been giving those projects on contract and who had been supervising the execution of these projects through commissions and dalali. We have been told that the people who had been contracting with other countries had also been taking commissions and the amounts so collected had been transmitted through " hawalas". The things which have been quoted here are not foreign to the people of India, but they had been reading all such newsin their own news papers and it is on record that when the world level agencies had been naming corrupt countries, our country could get a position amongst the tops. This is very bad on our part, because we had started with making this country a Ram rajaya.
When the cats are away the mouse shall play had been the reason that all the small officers and officials also started taking bribe and they started turning rich within days and that is the reason people in service in some of the departments became rich and people in other departments remained poor. The state is noticing all this, but it is on record that even the police does not take care when the people in power are doing all this. They start working when the political party loses power and another party comes in power. Then the police starts functioning against the old band and that is the reason most of the people in the previous governments are seen visiting police stations, courts and some are sent to jails too. The police could not have the eyes with which they could notice all when the same is happening. They allow the criminals to function and then destroy all the evidence and when the people holding files are also with them, they could destroy and conceal all the evidence. That is the reason, most of the people who are corrupt are safe because files are not speaking against them.
Under these circumstances, the people of India would not be able to establish Ram rajaya here and they shall remain under this rule because the present rule has taken firm establishment in this country. The people have started tolerating all this and it is on record that they are electing the same sets of people time and again in spite of the fact that they know all about these people and they had been reading all about these people. They are not finding the alternative people and that is the reason the same sets of people are coming time and again and are taking their turns. Since there are two sets of people taking their turns, they have a mutual understanding and they are keeping silence and are giving ample time to the party in power to loot the public exchequer and the people and they keep silence only because that they too shall be having their turn and they too shall be doing what the present set of people are doing. So under these circumstances, we shall not be able to shunt out these sets of people nor we have got a second line of leaders to rule us. The people who are taking power in turns are not having any sense of democracy with them nor they are considering themselves as public servants. They are ruling us and the rulers have got no sympathy with the people. The people of India had been slaves for centuries and that is the reason they are not understanding the real meaning of independence and democracy. They are just voters and they are called and after having their votes, they are pushed back to suffer for another term of five years or more. This corruption shall be attracting more and more people and that is the reason some families are able to establish family rule here in India. More and more families are coming forward and therefore the people of India would never attain independence nor they would turn democrats. They have got only one right of vote and with this right they would never be able to write off corruption from India.
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