After studying the awareness and agitations taking place in our country against corruption for a couple of months, I thought of writing my views about it. It is really appreciable and it will surely lead into a corruption free, developed nation. Still I could see some people among us using it as a forum for their own benefits. I am not against the anti corruption movements however I am against judging a particular group alone when we ourselves are corrupt.
After reading our Honourable PM’s address last week in Lok Sabha; defending against the allegations brought by the Oppositions that he had encouraged corruption, I questioned myself. Are we ourselves are really clean to accuse others? You may be thinking like that I am supporting the corruptive UPA government. Not at all, But don’t you know we ourselves elected this corruptive government and its MPs & Ministers to rule over us? Most of these participants of Agitation are urban middle class people. But do you know as per the survey recently announced in Hindu we (urban middle class) are the worst performers in exercising our electoral franchise. Even the tribes & villagers do it well. Do you agree that we ourselves have indirectly contributed to corruption? Yes. If you take a Monarchy or Kingship form of government the King who rules over the people is not elected by them but he holds his position by heredity. However in our democratic form of government we the people of India ruling our own nation by the representatives elected by us. And one more pathetic situation we see here is many selfish people are using it as a forum to get influence from the crowd especially the cine stars (they are doing the same job as they do in cinema that is Acting!) and religious leaders (they proclaim themselves as Gurus but do not really know the real meaning of a Guru).
In one of his last week’s address PM said something that I need to point out here. “If the Opposition felt that he had done anything wrong, Leader of the Opposition could look into the property he might have accumulated in the 41 years of his public life and that of his family members”. Just a question, Can any politician firmly say this word in this current trend? Impossible. I don’t say that the PM is the only clean person in politics however instead of blaming our own representatives can we sit and examine ourselves whether we are really good enough to blame others? As He stated in his address, he did contribute for the development of the nation. Can anybody question this? We are working in IT firms and enjoying the benefits. Do you know who the key person behind this was? Before 1991, India was following the socialistic model however was not able to generate much jobs & could not show much performance in world economics. But he was the key person behind bringing LPG model (Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation) which contributed a lot for the current developments in India.
An Opposition leader stated PM as “fountainhead of corruption” in Wednesday’s Lok Sabha address and he used many harsh words against the PM. I don’t want to explain about these leaders as you know very well the intension, their background and how they contributed on many communal riots among people. I would rather make a stand of Christ in these kinds of situations as a defender of our calm PM. As it says in the title of this article which was said by Jesus when the religious leaders of His time accused a woman for adultery and asked the opinion of Him on stoning her. Do you know what He replied with gentle voice “He who that is without sin, let him cast the first stone”. You know what happened, everybody left the stones and fled away from that place as they themselves were sinners worse than the accused women. The same example can be applied to the current situation too.
We are really happy that the response from the people is good at this time to curb corruption. But I can say something firmly that blaming the politicians and making thousand rules will not be the right solution to curb corruption rather it should start from correcting ourselves first then others. Let me list out few tiny mistakes we usually do in our day to day life.
- How many of us really submitting the rental receipts with the assent of house owner? Are we not the ones show the fake signature to save our tax money?
- Are we paying the correct amount to the traffic police when we are caught while violating traffic rules? We will give something to the police and that will be used as a pocket money for him.
- How many of us (urban middle class) are really exercising our franchise during election time? Are we not the ones who waste our votes and paving ways to wrong votes? That contributed to thieves, murderers & smugglers inside our legislature.
The statement made by Jesus to the crowd applicable to us too “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye”. These things may seem small to you but they really have their own impacts. The same things we consider small in our part are considered as small in the case of our Ministers that results in scams.
Even if you have thousand laws that can only help you to find some of the culprits and many will be escaped using the loopholes. You may get the visibility of people who involved in it but it will be still continuing in the background. Obedience because of dictation or fear of punishment will not help at all. For example the terrorists are still continuing their activities even they clearly know that if they are caught they would be surely getting the capital punishment.
However we can’t stop making rules, we should have it but the ultimate thing we can do is to change the mind set of our people and cultivate values. We need to start building values in our new generation to be good citizens. Then they will not be involved in these kind of malpractices as they are brought up by the values not because of the rules that stop them to do so and such kind of citizens will least bother about the rules and regulations.
We teach science, sports and technologies however we forget to teach the real values to handle these technologies. We have thousands of films coming every year; how many of them really build values & cultivate the brotherhood among the citizens? We just use the film industry for making money and embarking bad cultures and fashions among the youngsters. The family life & the good cultures started disappearing from our country because of the worst western cultures which are injected by cinema. Are our Medias doing good job in publishing the right information? They are also money minded and nowadays we can see the newspapers with full of advertisements and very few pages having the news and they are also not trustable. Every political and religious group are starting their own channels to propagate their own ways but how many of them are really showing the correct ways? Are we not using our sports for money? Indian constitution gives freedom to religious activates; Are our religious leaders not using it as an advantage to build their own trust here and everywhere around the world and enjoying the luxury lives?
We badly need a generation who least bother about the money and much concern about the values. So let us cultivate it in our kid’s minds so that our future generation will be free of corruption and black money etc.
Let a value filled, corruption free future generation arise from India!
