Lokpal revisited

Just saw the debate for Lokpal bill taking place in Loksabha today. It was a completely different experience. Different to the general perspective that politician are nonsensical and irresponsible lot it shocked me when they were quoting different sections and different articles of constitution and were having a mature debate (although for only a short time after which they came back to their general tactics). For that short time when they were behaving what i thought was proper it had me believe that if our politicians really work keeping welfare of people in mind and setting aside their differences it is very much possible to have the best laws without any uproar like the one caused by anna. I am for the India Aganist Corruption movement but as i stated in my earlier post i have my reservations. It has to be born in mind that Lokpal is not the end for the woes of this country it is just a beginning and the motive power for this would have to come from people of this country not from the political class. 

From the beginning of this agitation the support has only dwindled and the government has been successful in its tactics of letting the steam fizzle out from the general public. It has just dragged the issue because it knows that people will eventually get tired and like every other movement and agitation this will also go as just another uproar with some output which ended up without any substantial results.

I am not undermining the bill that was put up by government nor endorsing the one that has been hard pressed by anna and team because as i understood from todays debate that the intricacies in it are so difficult to understand that one wrong clause or one wrong step may lead to either a civil disorder or a complete collapse of the lokpal system itself. 

One clear point that was visible from every minister’s speech was that all they are interested in is the benefit of their particular party and the interest of the people of India comes second. They are so engrossed into keeping the power for themselves that they go to the extent of doing personal attacks. 

I am as hopeful as apprehensive about this law because as someone has said. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"