* Dear Jan Lok Pal, I hear that you are pleased to investigate all corruptions practiced by public servants , without discriminating between high and low levels of accountability of the offices in question... Your promoters seem to claim that it is an added tooth to your ability to uproot the evil of corruption.
May I say it looks bit absurd? In other words, you are simply terrible..You weaken the very idea of administrative control through standard service rules regimes with delegated powers . Why do you bother too much of a chaprasi asking baksish from his client, when he can best be controlled by his controlling officer sitting in the next room ? Why fails your vision of being 'STRONG' , when it comes to corporates and foreign funded NGOs? I doubt you really have any respect for the established norms of civic accountability. I doubt if you are a true admirer of Rule of Law.Your image of being 'STRONG' simply intimidates people like me, not because that I am in the in the corruption business( except that sometimes out of desperation, I vote to power candidate who I already know is under the shadow of corruption). Yet I am frightened by the substance and nature of your power; because,In spite of your awe inspiring STRENGTH , you hardly look like someone willing to take on those corrupt CEOs who simply abuse the trade laws and workers and peoples' rights . For example, when some public servant from the lower level of bureaucracy refuse to conform to your civil society wisdom, you can harass him by invoking your power, even while his service records otherwise satisfy his immediate boss in the office. But the same power is not invoked against CEOs in the business of flowing money to crush peoples' protests be it against state repression, land grab or anything..By their corrupt means and practices they simply make life miserable for vast multitudes of tribal populations, dalits, minorities, working classes, both organized and un organized. Yet, you boast of being STRONG and this is bit scarry!I wonder from where comes your proverbial STRENGTH ..I hear that it owes to few representatives of so called civil society, who certainly love peaceful agitations by people but also demand STRONG STATE INTERVENTION to combat corruption. I can see that your appointment is an outcome of anasan by someone who has acquired the stature of Gandhi thanks to the support offered to him by lakhs of people across the country, rather than a response to peoples' struggles for redress of their specific grievances caused by direct economic coercion. Could it just mean simply power concentrated in the hands of Your Honour, the JLP, who will work at the beck and call of a new constituency called civil society ? Will you ultimately declare unlawful all such concerns of widening social and economic gap, often represented by the less peaceful and real conflicts of class and lots of discourses around it? Thanking You, Your Fellow Citizen. * You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
