Hope, you would please, spare some of your precious time to share few of my thoughts, which are as under:
Social Justice is possible only if the representative of the people who are reaching in the Parliament, Assemblies of the States and Union Territories as well as in the Civic Bodies should be capable to handle their assignments with honesty and accountability. This cannot be expected until and unless the eligibility of candidates contesting the Election/s is not being redefined. Reforms should start from the top and not from the bottom or in between the two. Otherwise reforms in any field (Administrative Reforms, Police Reforms, Reforms in Judiciary etc. etc.) would be a patchwork/ remedy for a short period just like a painkiller. Our country needs another revolution against the present system for real democracy > justice for all.
The present system is being run by the compact triangle made up of Business Houses, MPs/MLAs (and their associating Civic bodies), and Bureaucrats and it is an open secret that corruption has been injected deep-rooted in all these heads of the system and their side effects have now affected even to a common man. It has become difficult for him to claim that he is not suffering from the disease of corruption. {Exceptions are every where exist.} The question is of degree only.
How can we expect honesty/justice from a department of a Ministry under the possession of a tented Minister the head of the stream?
So, we wish Social Justice, we have to think over on the following two points and the most important point is number 3 as under:
- The eligibility of the candidates contesting a election should be redefined at the par of a Government servant >(i. Qualification, ii.
Police verification, iii. Medical fitness and iv. Witness)
2. as they are also drawing salary and pensioners benefits and other perks etc. If any selected candidate is under suspicion of involvement in any unlawful activity, he /she should be suspended till the decision comes at the par of the rule governing to a government servant as under him thousands of government servants work in different department of his /her Ministry. It would be the first step to stop Criminalisation in the Politics.
3. The expenditure on Elections should not be out of donations received from Business Houses as no businessman invests money without anticipating multiple returns. Till the donations from businessmen are permitted the corruption cannot be overcome which is the main hurdle for Social Justice as well as in the process of development.
Who will do it? Absolutely, the initiative cannot be expected by the above-mentioned elements of the compact triangle. It needs public awareness by revolutionaries (the social activists) and force the Law making body to make amendment in the Constitution/ reformulate the Constitution and incorporate Electoral Reforms as a Law.
(V N Sondhi)/02.03.2007
Spiritualism makes the mind free from pollution and brooms out rubbish from the mind and gives right direction of thinking for the betterment for the person as well as affects a society as whole. Simultaneously we have to amalgamate this approach with the materialistic world. So, moral and ethichs, which is the out come of spiritualism and combination of which is very important with the materialism to get order of justice.
Academic community should restart exploring the important points to put in Electoral Reforms Agenda and Social activists/journalists should pursue it and force the Law making body the parliamentarians to put up and discuss it as Electoral Reforms Bill in the parliament to give it a shape as a Law which will help Election Commission and Judiciary in overcoming the injustice which would give the breath of real democracy for all.
23.10.2009
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