The movement for Jan Lokpal Bill

The social movement for Jan Lokpal Bill which aims at checking corruption from top to the bottom of administration reached an all time high on 19^th August  2011 when Anna Hajare came out of the Tihar Central Jail on his own terms. The extraordinary response from the mass especially the youth heralds a new beginning in the socio-political life of the people of India. To me it seems that a new India is emerging out of the globalization which has equipped the youth with the mass communication facilities and also the political and social consciousness which was needed for a national awakening. The economic background of this movement is not far to seek. The spiralling price rise and inflation has put  enormous pressure on the lower middle class as well as the rising middle class whose  aspirations are chocked due to the rampant corruption. Rather  corruption has been institutionalized and hence the effect on our day to day lives. The youth particularly has realized that the root cause of our economic problems is the corruption which is eating at the root of the vitality of our productive forces . Hence, Anna Hajare in not only the symbol of the emerging India of future he is also the symbol of the aspirations of the youth and the peasants who are the most deprived lot. Anna is hundred percent correct when he gives the call for a second Independence struggle. After 64 years of freedom what we the common people have gained.  It is corruption,  widespread unemployment,  moral deprivation and  social insecurity. The only people who have gained are the  so called politicians giving lip service to the people who have voted them to power, the big capitalists like Ambanis, Tatas, Birlas, Singhanias and others. Even our national Anthem smacks of British imperialist nostalgia.   We have not been able to pass a fresh Police Act on our own till date. The old police act enacted by the British rulers is still in use which in itself tells about the mind set of our ruling elite. The forceful assertion time and again that  the Parliament is supreme reminds us the authoritarian attitude of a particular political party. Even the opposition too is quiet  on the Jan Lokpal Bill issue and it speaks a lot about the give and take policy of the  opposition which is equally guilty of putting the Lokpal Bill in the dustbin during their tenure. So, the people should beware of the opposition which may try to fish in the troubled waters  for its own political gains. The country badly needed a second Gandhi and Anna Hajare is the Gandhi who  has the capacity of pulling the country from the quagmire of corrupt and despotic  rule of the ruling elite which is trying to usurp the harvest of the freedom fighters of India.

Jai Hind. Jai Bharat. Jai humara pyara Hindustan.