Difficulties due to men and virus will not be hampering India for long though we need to work hard unitedly. No one should be able to stop our breathing freely and live happily.

1. What shall we look up to in
future elections?
OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
ASKS RESPONSIBLE
PARTICIPATION FROM
WE THE PEOPLE
OF BHARATH

2. In the Republic of India there is
desire to evaluate the gains made as also to assess our
future.
a widely shared
• Undoubtedly, the people of the country
and the managers of society can be
congratulated on many counts for India's
achievements since independence which
include (i) self-sufficiency (in fact surplus
generation) in food-grains, (ii) a strong
industrial base, (iii) a rising expectancy of
life, (iv) a higher percentage of literacy, (v)
a united and better integrated India and (vi)
a growing recognition by the world
of our capabilities and potential.
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3. On the negative side, one could count
the nagging problems of unemployment,
illiteracy and poverty accentuated by
ever increasing population.
Also, a low per capita income,
inadequate infrastructure, feudalistic
tendencies and worst of all a pathetic
contempt of rule of law and ethics in
public life.
Finally, an administration which is
perceived as self seeking and citizen
unfriendly.
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4. "WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to
constitute
India into a SOVEREIGN
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, and to secure to all its
citizens :
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote
among them all;
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the
unity of the
Nation:
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of
November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO
OURSELVES
THIS CONSTITUTION."
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5. Akbar "the Great," who governed
India for half a century (1556-1605)
and by a wise, gentle and just
reign brought about a season of
prosperity. This man, whose
memory even to-day is revered by
the Hindus, was named Abul Fath
Jelâleddin Muhammed. And truly
he justified the epithet, for great,
fabulously great, was Akbar as
man, general, statesman and ruler.
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6. Akbar succeeded in establishing order, peace,
and prosperity in his provinces. This he brought about
by the introduction of a model administration, an
excellent police, a regulated post service, and
especially a just division of taxes.
Up to Akbar's time corruption had been a matter of
course in the entire official service and enormous
sums in the treasury were lost by peculation on the
part of collectors.
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7. AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA The corruption in the
finance and customs department was abolished by
means of a complicated and punctilious system of
supervision (the bureaus of receipts and expenditures
were kept entirely separated from each other in the
treasury department).
Akbar himself carefully examined the accounts
handed in each month from every district, just as he
gave his personal attention with tireless industry and
painstaking care to every detail in the widely ramified
domain of the administration of government.

8. Moreover the Emperor was fortunate in having at
the head of the finance department a prudent,
energetic, perfectly honorable and incorruptible
man, the Hindu Todar Mal, who
without possessing the title
of vizier or minister of state
had assumed all the functions
of the office.

9. For us in India, corruption has been an age-old
phenomenon. Chanakya is supposed to have said in
the Arthashastra that there are 40 different methods
by which public officials can indulge in corruption.
"The Mahamatras are like fish. Does one know,
when the fish is drinking water?" he is supposed to
have said. Indira Gandhi, when asked a question
about corruption, passed it off with a comment that
was a global phenomenon.
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10. Corruption is a matter of concern as it has negative
consequences. Corruption is anti-national. The hawala scam
of the 1990s exposed how the Kashmiri terrorists were
getting funds through the hawala route, and it is the same
route by which the corrupt bureaucrats, politicians and
businessmen also were getting and laundering their funds.
The 1999 UNDP report on Human Development pointed out
that if India’s corruption level can be brought down to that of
the Scandinavian countries, India’s GDP will grow by 1.5 per
cent and FDI increase by 12.5 per cent. Corruption is,
therefore, anti-economic development.

11. Corruption is anti-poor. In a country, where 26 per cent
of the population is below the poverty line, corruption
hits the poor very badly. Many of the development
schemes meant for the weaker sections do not benefit
them at all. Rajiv Gandhi remarked that only 15 paise
out of every rupee meant for the anti-poverty
programme reaches the beneficiaries. Get the benefits
of corruption-free, good governance in our own lifetime.
Singapore is a classic example.

12. Corruption and India: While no society is free from
corruption, what is worrying is that such behaviour
appears normalised in India. The licence raj of the past
did not help. Capitalism, globalisation and liberalisation
have also increased the pressure to succeed, achieve
targets and acquire wealth quickly. The abuse of public
power, office and resources for personal gain is
common. A culture, which declares conflicts of interests
and institutes systems to assess them, WILL certainly
take hold in India. ‘India Aganist Corruption’ will not
remain a slogan. JAI HIND

13. People consider that all parties are equally corrupt.
Some are more so than others or some have been
found out while others have not been exposed.
Damage is caused by corruption or lack of probity in
public life to the well-being of the people. The middle
class value of probity in public life will have to be
sustained. It has been said that India is a feudal
democracy. It is quite possible therefore that we take a
tolerant view of the misbehaviour of leaders because
the king can do no wrong.

14. Support the broad coalition of civil society groups and organisations
operating at the various levels to better realise their anti-corruption
objectives. There is immense diversity, complexity and rivalry
among these groups and organisations, but if their activities are to
have a wider impact there needs to be some kind of co-ordinating
effort to better share best practice. More opportunities need to be
provided for networking, co-ordinating effort, and developing
policies.
T
o tackle corruption effectively there is need for a strong
consolidated state characterised by rule governed behaviour.
Excessive emphasise on de-regulation and transparency may
undermine the precisely those outcomes which are being sought.

15. The CPI is based on corruption in the government
public sector; is calculated on corruption-related
data from 13 source-surveys published between
January 2009 and September 2010.
The criteria used to arrive at the score include
perception-related questions like the government's
capacity to punish and contain corruption;
transparency, accountability and corruption in the
public sector; extent of corruption; implementation
/
of anti-corruption initiatives. India is 87th in
Transparency International's latest C P I, in which
178 countries were surveyed.

16. Anti-corruption strategies are not simply policies that
can be planned in advance and isolation, but often a
set of subtler insights that can be developed only in
conjunction with citizen participation.
Combating corruption is, therefore, not just a matter of
making laws and creating institutions, but rather it is
deeply rooted in the activities of the civil society itself.

17. The method is based on three practical
steps, namely
Morality,
Concentration _concentrated mind as
for work.
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Insight _ understanding of the true nature
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66. Many thought the launch of market reforms in the
early 1990s and the end of license raj would
reduce corruption. Instead, with the creation of
additional wealth and circulation of more money in
the economy, what one witnessed was an increase
in scale of corruption.
Though the country has grown impressively since
the reforms began, the growth would have been
even more remarkable had corruption been not a
factor.

67. Undreamt happenings that gladden as
well as sadden hearts

68. Not everything in India attracts me. It has everything that a
human being with the highest possible aspirations can want
besides that with equally undesirable characteristics. Even
today Ravana, Dusshasana and Keechaka are found here
and Rama’s arrow and Bhima’s mace has to be active right
in Bharath, the secular republic.
It is said that India is essentially karmabhumi (land of duty)
in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). But
many in this bhumi have forgotten this wisdom. Growing
non-performing assets (like the brain of bureaucrats) is a
recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector.

69. Over the past two decades, there have been several such
episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired
by balance sheet problems. It is imperative to expeditiously
resolve a banking sector crisis so that banks as the primary
source of credit can start functioning normally again. India is
a nation that has retained some of the regulating institution
like the RBI, although their work of regulation has been
overlaid with superstition and error. But she has hitherto
shown an inherent capacity for purging herself of error and
superstition and prevent the likes of bank robbers.

70. I am humble enough to admit that there is much that we can
profitably assimilate from China. Wisdom is no monopoly of
one continent or one race. My resistance to Western
civilization is really a resistance to its indiscriminate and
thoughtless imitation based on the assumption that Asiatic
are fit only to copy everything that comes from the West….If
India has patience enough to go through the fire of suffering
and to resist any unlawful encroachment upon being
civilized and desist from impeaching the highest officer of
the judiciary, she can make a lasting contribution to the
peace and solid progress of the world.

71. I hope we shall strive for a post- Ambedkar constitution,
which will release India from all thralldom and patronage,
and give her, if need be, the right to sin. I shall work for an
India, in which the Dalits shall without any reservation, feel it
is their country and apply for joining the Army, the Navy and
may be the Air Force. Where low class of people are not
trying to beat the high class to make a belief that they have
an effective voice; an India in which there shall be no high or
low class; an India in which all communities shall live in
perfect harmony without humiliating the Dalits and drive them
to attack the Supreme Court of the land.

72. There can be no room in such an India for the phenomena of
untouchability (except by the rapists) or the curse of the
intoxicating drinks and drugs. Women will enjoy the same
rights as men to join the police service and the armed forces
to defend themselves and the nation. I feel that India’s
mission is different from that of others. Along with my brothers
of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, I believe that India is fit for the
religious supremacy of the world. There is no parallel in the
world for the process of purification that this country has
voluntarily undergone. India is less in need of steel weapons;
it has fought with divine (?) weapons, it can still do so.

73. Other nations have been votaries of brute force. We too have a
vast Defence Force fully equipped with modern weapons to
help our neighbours to desire truth and nonviolence like us.
India can win all by soul force.
Let us engrave in our hearts the motto of a philosopher, ‘plain
living and high thinking.’ Today it is certain that the millions
cannot have high living and we the few who profess to do the
thinking for the masses, have a high living, missing high
thinking. The word Swaraj means self-rule and self-restraint,
and not freedom from all restraint which ‘independence’ often
means.

74. By Swaraj I mean the government of India by the consent of
the people as ascertained by the largest number of the adult
population, male or female, native born or domiciled, who
have contributed by manual labour to the service of the
State and who have taken the trouble of having registered
their names as voters….Real Swaraj will come not by the
acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of the
capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other
words, Swaraj is to be obtained by education the masses to
a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

75. Self-government depends entirely upon our internal
strength, upon our ability to fight against the heaviest odds.
Indeed, self-government which does not require that
continuous striving to attain it and to sustain it is not worth
the name. I have, therefore, endeavored to show both in the
word and deed, that, political self-government, that is, Self-
government for a large number of men and women, is no
better than individual self-government, and therefore, it is to
be attained by precisely the same means that are required
for individual self-government or self-rule.

76. Let me indulge in my ideal dream. Under Swaraj based on
non-violence nobody is anybody’s enemy, everybody
contributes his or her due quota to the common goal, all
can read and write, and their knowledge keeps growing
from day to day. Sickness and disease are reduced to the
minimum. No one is a pauper and labour can always find
employment. There is no place under such a government
for gambling, drinking and immorality or for class hatred.
The rich will use their riches wisely and usefully, and not
squander them in increasing their pomp and worldly
pleasures.

77. It should not happen that a handful of rich people should live
in jeweled places and the millions in miserable hovels
devoid of sunlight or ventilation. In non-violent Swaraj there
can be no encroachment upon just rights; contrariwise no
one can possess unjust rights. The democracy can never
come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple
reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to
remove all opposition through the suppression or
extermination of the antagonists. That does not make for
individual freedom which can have the fullest play only
under a regime of unadulterated Ahimsa.

78. THE CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION has brought out
"The citizens guide to fighting corruption." Articles have
appeared in almost all newspapers giving the anatomy and
biochemistry of corruption. An attempt has been made to take
the issue to the right clientele, capable of bringing in a change.
The then Central Vigilance Commissioner stated "Guide
contains the distilled essence of the strategies evolved so far to
fight corruption and the principles that can be adopted...
presented as a humble offering to every patriotic citizen of India
who wants to fight corruption."

79. o The Indian Penal Code has provisions for forcing public
servants to do their duty under sections 166 and 167.
o Heads of organisations can be persuaded to make
comprehensive use of these punitive measures.
o Ethics should form part of the education system and
children in the schools should be mobilised to create a
social climate of making corruption unacceptable and
casting a social stigma on those who are corrupt.
o The use of media for mobilising the people against
corruption can also be part of this effort.

80. Crimes against children & women -
alleged & convicted

81.  What happened in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh? It is
alleged that a 16 year old had tried to file a case of
rape against a MLA.
 The alleged rape took place in June, but in spite of all
her efforts, the police refused to file an FIR against the
MLA. She was forced to stage a protest before the
chief Minister’s house, but even that made no
difference.

82.  On the contrary the girl and her family were harassed,
it is alleged. Her father died in police custody.
 The MLA’s brother has been arrested for her father’s
death and an FIR filed against the MLA.
 He made outrageous and defamatory statements
against the girl and her family.
 Moral corruption led to the fall of Ravana & Kauravas
from greatness to annihilation. Was it myth?

83. Attempts to undermine the investigation into a little girl’s
rape and murder must be resisted.
The 15 page chargesheet filed by the Jammu & Kashmir
Police’s Crime Branch on the abduction, rape and murder
of an eight year old girl in Kathua district is chilling. An
unspeakably horrific crime has been overlain with an ugly
form of communal politics, which has heightened the
feeling of vulnerability among the Bakherwal nomadic
community.

84. Asifa Bano had been missing in Rasana village since
January 10th. On January 17th, her mutilated body was
found, bearing the marks of gang rape. This week, local
lawyers tried to prevent the police from filing the charge
sheet, and the Jammu High Court Association called for a
bandh, demanding that the investigation be handed over to
the Central Bureau of Investigation. The charge sheet lists
as the main conspirator the caretaker of the temple in
Rasana where Asifa was allegedly held, and threads
together the sequence of events.

85. The Gujjar-Bakherwal community’s sense of isolation, as
the dead eight year old is sought to be defined by her
ethnic and religious identity, is especially heightened given
the backdrop of drives to evict them from what they say
are their traditional camping sites in the forests.
One line of inquiry is that the motive for her abduction and
assault was to instill fear among the nomads in pressing
for their rights to the forests and commons. The nomads
are feeling the brunt of the intimidation, but the brutality
brought upon the little girl is a horrible crime and the guilty
should be prosecuted.

86.  The investigation must be pursued for the hate crime it
is. It does not just tie in with her community’s rights_
 Along with the Unnao rape case in U.P., in which the
victim’s father died in police custody this week, it shows
how loaded the system is against those seeking justice.
 Moral corruption led to the fall of Ravana & Kauravas
from greatness to annihilation. Was it myth?

87.  April, 26,2018: Asaram Bapu sentenced to jail till death ;
Convicted of rape of teenager at his ashram. Shall appeal
in a higher Court.
 In April, 2010, Nityananda was arrested on charges of
rape, criminal intimidation and cheating.
 On August 25, 2017, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was
convicted in a rape case.
 On August 21, 1997, a trial court sentenced Premananda
to double life imprisonment for raping 13 girls & murder of
an inmate of his ashram near Trichy

88.  Asumal (his original name) spent his childhood in abject
poverty and started his journey on a tonga (a horse cart) in
Ajmer. He is accused and convicted of raping a minor.
 However, back in the day, the relatively anonymous Asumal,
was a tongawallah trying to make ends meet by trudging
across lanes and bylanes of Ajmer.
 Asaram used to pull his tongah to the Ajmer Dargah Sharif.
He then launched himself as the spiritual guru in the 1960s
and established more than 400 ashrams in the country and
internationally. He lived in Gujarat.

89. Asumal was known to be a hard working boy who wanted to
attain fame, he had run away from home during his teens. It
is believed that he got the name 'Asaram Bapu' from
Lilashah, the man he considered as his Guru. Asumal
Sirumalani, who became known as self-styled godman
Asaram Bapu, has a net worth of around Rs. 10,000 crore,
according to a 2014 Press Trust of India report.
Asaram has been convicted under Sections 370(4), 342,
506, 376-D, 376 (2)(F) along with Section 120 - B of the IPC
and Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice. He will apply in
higher court. See next slide…

90.  The rape case in which Asaram was convicted on April 25
was registered in 2013.
 After police began probing his empire, in 2014, it was
revealed that he had accumulated over Rs 10,000 crore.
 This did not include the valuation of the land he owned
across the country, and was only the amount traced
through his bank accounts, and investments such as
shares, debentures and government bonds.
 In 2016, the Income Tax department found Asaram held
undisclosed income of nearly Rs. 2,300 crore since 2008-
09.