Thursday, April 21, 2011

For the People by the People!



I am an Indian and a very proud one too; yes, there is no doubt about it but at the same time exhausted by the endless scams. India is one of such country that maintains corruption in three levels, Macro, Mini, and Micro. We forced to pay for what we already paid, a new telephone connection, job to be done at Municipality, Passport verification at police station, … forget it, I am not going to write a Mahabharata. These shameless faces are most irritated species and I consider them an unofficial beggars. Finally, there is some hope, but in a democratic country, no body can prevent you from dreaming or hoping for good, but getting it is other thing. The movement that started earlier by a few people and latest by Anna Hazare can fulfill our dream, a dream for a clean and corruption free state. Long pending Jan Lokpal Bill may finally see the light.


Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill. It is drawn up by some prominent civil society activists and seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases within a short period. It is to provide the common man with direct powers to condemn the elected representative.

The Team (Ten Wise(?) Man)





Man for all Seasons
Cool as
Cucumber


Kill & sooth
with a smile

Clean Sheet

Find flaws
in the law
 











Taking the bull by the horns
The
Adviser

Legally Correct

Helping
the helpless

Fight the
Corrupt

Minister on Board


Pranab Mukherjee - Our current FM does not need an introduction. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History and Political Science & has a degree in law from the University of Calcutta. He is one of the senior most member of the National Congress Party as well as Indian Parliament. He also hold a very distinguish position in the current government - Troubleshooter. He will be the Chairman of the panel.


P. Chidambaram is an Indian politician and present Union Minister of Home Affairs. Before this, he was Finance Minister of India. He studied at Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He completed his graduation in Statistics from The Presidency College, Chennai then he completed his LL.B. from the Madras Law College and a M.B.A. from Harvard. He also has a Masters from Loyola College.

Kapil Sibal - He was born in Jalandhar, he obtained his M.A. from St. Stephen, LLB from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1977. He is currently the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

Salman Khurshid - He too is a lawyer. He is Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Minority Affairs. He has been deeply involved in writing and acting in plays since his student days in Delhi and Oxford.


Veerappa Moily is the current Minister of Law and Justice in the Indian government. He completed his B.L. from University Law College, Bengaluru


Non-Government


Anna Hazare - His name is Kisan Baburao Hazare. He studied up to 7th standard and forced to take a job due to financial problem. He started selling flower in Dadar station to support his family. Then he started as a driver in Indian Army. After voluntary retirement from the army, Hazare came to his native Ralegan Siddhi village in 1975. He started working on the development in the area for water supply, education and other basic needs. He draws his inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda - ' that the motive of his life lay in service to his fellow humans'.


Shanti Bhushan - He was a senior advocate and also was a former Law Minister of India, from 1977–1979, in the Morarji Desai Government. He is the oldest of the lot and he is going to co-chair joint drafting committee of  Jan Lokpal Bill along with Pranab Mukherjee.


Santosh Hegde is a former justice of the Supreme Court of India, former Solicitor General of India. He was appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka state on 3 August, 2006 for a term of five years.


Prashant Bhushan - He is the son of Shanti Bhushan and by profession he is a lawyer. He is a activist too and helped people by judiciary system.


Arvind Kejriwal - A IIT Kharagpur alumni from where he has done his Mechanical Engineering. Joined Indian Revenue Service (IRS), while he was posted at the Income-tax Commissioner's Office in Delhi he realized that much of the corruption prevalent in government is owing to lack of transparency in the process. He also he campaigned for the Right to Information Act. Apart from many other awards, he also awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006. Hazare and Kejriwal are odd one out, as both of them do not have a law degree behind them.

The first meeting is already over but has doubt regarding further happening as lots of controversies cropping up with the Bhushans, specially senior Bhushan. Keeping our finger cross and hoping for better tomorrow.

As a common citizen looking for the day when a corrupt administrator or a minister going dragged down and tried by a common man. It seems country does not have a woman who could have join the team, while person like Aruna Roy or Kiran Bedi was a obvious choice.


!!!Citizen's ombudsman, nothing official about it! End of the road for Unofficial Beggars? yippee! yahoo!!!

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