DEar Sarabjit,
You are right. Anna Hazare is not the only person to fight against corruption. It is great on your part whatever you have contributed. But the difference in yours and Anna's effort is, you tried to fight the war which is your own. Had you met with some untoward incident in this fight no body could have taken the fire forward. But what Anna is trying (which seems) is to make the masses a force. It is a unified effort. Anna at 85 might not be fighting for too long. But the masses once united may be a force for years to come. I dont understand what is the reason of people opposing such initiative. We as a civilian been voting these dishonest politicians by way of bowing ourselves to one party or the other. No one of us dared to fight an election on the strength of our honesty. So, are we not equally responsible for these currupt politicians and the rotten political system in which a person wins the election by getting 25 to 30% of votes because there are so many parties sharing a large % of votes against the winning candidate consolidating 70 to 75%. this means the people in power are the preference of only 30% people, 70% dont prefer them. But what to do of the political system. So, my request is to have alternates in mind instead of criticising a person.
without any prejudice
With Regards
Sanjay Chaturvedi
You are right. Anna Hazare is not the only person to fight against corruption. It is great on your part whatever you have contributed. But the difference in yours and Anna's effort is, you tried to fight the war which is your own. Had you met with some untoward incident in this fight no body could have taken the fire forward. But what Anna is trying (which seems) is to make the masses a force. It is a unified effort. Anna at 85 might not be fighting for too long. But the masses once united may be a force for years to come. I dont understand what is the reason of people opposing such initiative. We as a civilian been voting these dishonest politicians by way of bowing ourselves to one party or the other. No one of us dared to fight an election on the strength of our honesty. So, are we not equally responsible for these currupt politicians and the rotten political system in which a person wins the election by getting 25 to 30% of votes because there are so many parties sharing a large % of votes against the winning candidate consolidating 70 to 75%. this means the people in power are the preference of only 30% people, 70% dont prefer them. But what to do of the political system. So, my request is to have alternates in mind instead of criticising a person.
without any prejudice
With Regards
Sanjay Chaturvedi
On 8 April 2011 16:56, sarbajit roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
Anna Hazare is not the only person to get corrupt Ministers from
Maharashtra removed from office. I also belong to that little club :-)
So let me tell you my story.
In January 2004 after a chain of incidents which affected me as an
ordinary citizen I filed an RTI (under Delhi Right to Information Act
- there was no NRTI then) to the TRAI (a Central body). They accepted
it after some hesitation and wrangling and I got the inspection I
wanted. Although how I used that information is MY intellectual
property, sufficeth it to say a great deal of pressure was brought
upon me to withdraw my complaint(s) which I did not cow down to, and
finally the PMO had no option but to replace (in all of 4 days) Mr
Pramod Mahajan with Mr Arun Shourie (who incidentally along with his
sidekick Mr Pradeep Baijal) turns out to be an even bigger h**** than
the Hon'ble member from Maharashtra. Incidentally I was assured at the
time (and they stuck to it) that Pramod Mahajan would not rejoin as
Minister for 6 years. I was also assisted by some honest people in
govt to inititiate proceedings (in SC) to recover at least some of the
telecom licence fees which had been "gifted" away to the private
operator. I am glad to say that over Rs. 4,000 crores was levied and
compounded by the errant telcos and so I didn't even have to get my
petition listed.
The route I took is still open to anyone to use. It is extraordinarily
fast (definitely much much less than 2 years proposed in Jan LokPal
Bill) . All it needs is extraordinary knowledge of law, goivt systems,
processes and human psychology. Like all good things such approaches
can only be appreciated and used by masters. Unfortunately what Anna
Hazare is trying to do is to "dumb it down" like RTI Act (ie hand
AK-47s to goons and morons) so that there will be total anarchy in the
country and his friend's Chinese friends can take this country over.
.
Sarbajit
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