The defect of the team Anna (Anna Hazare and others) in the fight against corruption is that it is against public servants only and not against the main source of corruption, the link between big business-politician-bureaucrat and funding of political parties by big business and the election system where money plays a big role by encouraging individual candidates to get elected by polling more votes than other candidates. If proportionate representation is there i.e if people vote for parties instead of individual candidates and the seats in the Assemblies and Parliament are decided as per the percentage of votes polled by the parties, corruption and role of money power in elections will be curtailed.
The Left Parties have decided to organise country wide movement against corruption next month. The activists of the Left Parties will picket central government offices, hold dharna, rallies, demonstrations etc between July 15 and 21during monsoon session of the Parliament. The Left Parties are placing the following demands to curb corruption:
i) Adoption of an effective Lokpal legislation
ii) There should be a National Judicial Commission to curb corruption in the high judiciary
iii) Stringent action against the rampant corruption fostered by the big business-politician-bureaucratic nexus which has led to scandal such as the 2G spectrum case.
iv) Implementation of electoral reforms including introduction of proportional representation system to check money power in elections
v) Steps to unearth black money and repatriation of the illegal money stashed abroad.
While the Congress, BJP and the leaders of several regional parties are facing charges of serious corruption, the Left Parties leaders are not involved in such corruption. The MLAs and MPs of Left Parties are free from corruption charges. The demands raised by the Left Parties against corruption are proper and we should wish success for the movement of the Left Parties against corruption. But whether the media controlled by the big capitalists will give any coverage to this movement since it is against the unholy nexus of the big business-politician-bureaucrat? This is to be seen. In any case all citizens should support this struggle against corruption.
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