India's war on corruption, The 1st battle of Lokpal

The 1st Battle of Lokpal
7 stakeholders and 1 prize
India's war on corruption

It is the mother of all wars
Between transparency and corruption

A fight between
Change versus Status Quo

It is a war for control of India, its people and its wealth

The Lokpal Bill is only the
1st battle against corruption.
It is the beginning of a long war

7 Stakeholders and one invaluable prize
A war for Our Future

Stake holder 1 : The UPA Government

The Sonia- Manmohan Duo
Stake holder 1 The UPA Govt.
Don’t Rock The Boat !

Change at a slow pace
For the UPA top duo coalition stability is more important than change.

Rahul –Digvijay duo
We are the best !

This UPA duo believes they are wise and dynamic, like Sarkozy or Putin !

Opposition ruled states like U.P. and Jharkhand is their Libya or Chechnya.

The duo love to play both the devil and messiah !
Winning at any cost is the goal !

Pawar – Karunanidhi - Dixit
Stop Change ! We are the elected money managers!

This troika are trusted franchisees . They source the fund flow, and donate to the party
They say “ corruption talk is all crap
…. besides we all wear white”

They control the last mile of the delivery chain at Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai
They generate the maximum political funds for the UPA !

They say “Let us be as we are !”
If we are down the UPA power house will crumble !

The Antony-Mani Shankar duo !
It is time for change
Nobody can stop it !

Stake holder 2 : The Opposition
They need change …. not us !

The NDA have no alternative model of transparent shadow Govt.
Though they have relatively clean and transparent state Governments in both Gujarat and Bihar.

Lack of change commitment !
Delayed and dithered in ushering transparent change in Karnataka for clean Govt.

The Communist Parties
We are different !
We have our politburo!
And our ideology!

The Karat Doctrine !
Even after the electoral drubbing we are sure we don’t need change !! ….
After all we remain losers with both UPA or BJP in power, so why bother !

The People are confused !

Will NDA be better than the UPA ?
Will they be committed
to root out corruption !

Stake holder 3 : The Judiciary
We will uphold the constitution and probity in public life !
..…even if we are accused of judicial activism !

Stake holder 3 : The Judiciary
Justice is for the greater good of people even if it touches adhocism
Raises concern amongst people !
Is both political & judicial power corrupting ?

Stake holder 4 :
The Administrative Machinery
.
Bureaucrats, Police, CBI, ED, IT, ST, Excise, rural and urban administrative services

Stake holder 4 : The Administrative Machinery
Bureaucracy says “We are the king makers !”
Whosoever governs the nation the power to suck the spoils lies with us

We source the rivulets of corruption funds due to the license permit raj.
When this forms the rivers the politicians dam and divert the same for their use.

Stake holder 4 : Administrative Machinery
Transparency curtails bureaucracy
Curtails power !
Reduces corruption !
Improves efficiency !
Causes workforce rationalization !

Stake holder 4 : Administrative Machinery
So we Government employees always love status quo
Because our power grows as politicians fight the people. They will use us to control and
suppress social unrest and bypass checks and balances.

But there are exceptions to the rule
More and more whistle blowers are emerging from the administrative machinery every day !

Stake holder 5 :
The Civil Society And The Media
Media and Civil Society are the drivers of change !

Stake holder 5 : Civil Society and the Media
Few are impatient and want utopia !
Baba Ramdev, Swami Agnivesh, Greenpeace and few others would spoil for a fight against the system!

Stake holder 5 : The Civil Society And The Media
Other’s like Anna Hazare are relentless negotiators
They will take the battle out of New Delhi where the police can beat them into submission, to the remote towns and villages of the nation.

For it is the rural masses who are hit by corruption most
So they will be first told of how and why they are missing out !

Traditional media and internet have been at forefront of the transparency movement
The Newspapers, the radio and the TV channels and internet have taken the transparency movement out of closets and fired the minds and the hearts of the people !

2G
CWG
Adarsh Housing
Aviation Licensing
…..the list of scams is endless
The Media has piled up the pressure on the Govt. and opened up the can of worms ….

Stake holder 6 : Industry and Business
Is business as usual the cause of corruption !

Industry and business are usually perceived as bribe givers
But most hate giving bribes. They are the reluctant accomplice of the license permit regime

Many accept it as a cost
Some encourage & abet corruption to ensure business as usual !

But there is a huge segment of corrupt land based business, who have thrived on shady deal making
They are the reason, why land in India is so expensive, though being largely undeveloped.

Politicians draw sustenance from most real estate related biz.
Urbanization projects, mining, oil and gas exploration are hotspots of corruption.

Business as usual benefits executives more than investors . So it is a Hobson’s choice.
Investors want clean governance and a transparent environment

The success of Hong Kong & Gujarat in wooing global investors show
that investment flocks to areas where corruption is under control !

Stake holder 7 : The People
We vote only once in 5 years
But now we will monitor you 24x7 !

Fortunately the biggest supporter of transparency and change is the youth !
Mainly because they loose opportunities to grow in its absence.

The youth are not ready to give up the war against corruption
For transparency has fired up the imagination and winds of change has fanned the fire to a flashpoint.

The people are distressed, angry but they don’t know what to do.
Most people are having the sinking feeling, that the India Government and Reserve Bank are losing control on the economy because they just can’t plug the leaks.

Though interest rates have been revised several times to curb inflation but to no avail
The people are feeling the brunt of price rise because of the effect of rampant corruption

Plugging the leaks is the key to containing inflation and price rise
That can’t be done without weeding out corruption from the delivery cycle of public funds.

So inflation will stay high as long as corruption is around
.
Despite the Reserve Bank Initiatives !

People will be distressed
.
As the economy bleeds due to corruption the prices will remain high

Cash subsidy, or any food security will fail to deliver .
.
Because of corrupt delivery system

.
So the people’s war on corruption had to begin. Lokpal is just the 1st battle

….And people will fight their own war on corruption !
Even if it is against their own elected Government

The 1st battle of Lokpal
For the people discontent needed to be addressed
.
For that a comprehensive and focused anti corruption Lokpal bill was one of the measures needed

But the Bill tabled by the UPA Govt is an itsy bitsy bill, that barely covers !
.

So the war on corruption will move out from the streets of Delhi to the by lanes of India’s towns and villages.
.
The battle that started with the Lokpal Bill will now be expanded into an all out war on corruption.

The Lokpal is the ombudsman of the people to oversee the administrative process .
It must oversee all those involved in the decision making without exclusions
.

It must track the route map of public fund flow and protect it from corruption.
.
Every one from the Prime Minister to the village Patwari in the administrative chain of decision making must be within the ambit of the Lokpal

People won’t give up on the Lokpal easily, because they now know its use.
.
If the current Government fails to make the Lokpal Bill comprehensive, the next will.

So despite its parliamentary majority, the UPA will ultimately lose the Lokpal war.
.
And people will remember that they fought years against a corrupt UPA regime for their future and freedom .

It will be yet another blot on democracy,
where people are at war against an elected Government that turned despot.
.
Like the emergency, the
1st battle of Lokpal will be a turning point of our history !

Acknowledgement : This slideshow is based on my articles in the Economic Times New Delhi, India’s best known business News paper
7 Stakeholder’s in India’s Transparency battle
and
Why Congress wants PM out of the Lokpal ambit

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