Monday, December 1, 2008

Accountability- The need of the hour in India

Good.. At last People Power started working.....There is a silverline in the cloud
Shivaraj Patil, R.R. PAtil and Deshmukh... It would have been better had they resigned on their own accord... It is quite obvious, a bit of "persuasion" was needed to make them turn inwards and face their Conscience..:-)
What i did not understand, is the hue and cry made by the "party with a difference"...
It is not as if Things started happening just after Shivaraj Patil toook over the charge @ home ministry....
There were huge lapses during Advani's time as well.. ( the way IA flight was allowed to go to Kandahar, Parliament attack, Akshardam Temple attack, Godhra Train carnage, the way Bangladesh Rifles killed Indian soldiers and Mother of all Blunders - Kargil where our soldiers had to fight enemy with some really bad gear.).... Nobody felt, some body has to own up responsibility.
If you happen to view our TV Channels over the last few days, there were a lot of anger and frustration from people. It is quite valid.. But people should remember that Anger is a precious commodity.. Need to channel this anger into positive direction and worthwhile acctions..
In my humble opinion the need of the hour, Two Fundamental changes.
One w.r.t Election rules, so that we are empowered to recall our represenatative (Panchayat, MLA or MP) at any point of time in his /her tenure. A memorandom with a basic % of electorate should force the Election Commision to have a relection. It is going to cost us a bit more. ( It can be done quite easily with EVMs).. But compared to the cost of letting these folks rule without any Accountability, it should not matter.

Second: For Executive and Governance let us stipulate that MLA and MPs can not be Ministers. Let them concentrate on taking care of their constituencies and legislative business.
Let PM and CM fill the executive post from all the talent available in the country. Let the Defence Minsiter be some one who has retired from Army / Navy /Airforce.... Let us have a Health minister like Devi Shetty or Dr. Venugopal.. For Education, let them appoint some one like Prof. Yashpal....

1 comment:

  1. "One w.r.t Election rules, so that we are empowered to recall our represenatative (Panchayat, MLA or MP) at any point of time in his /her tenure. A memorandom with a basic % of electorate should force the Election Commision to have a relection."
    Here is why this may not work - lets say, Finance Minister Increases taxes for long term betterment of the country - majority of the people would go and bring the FM down. So, if your suggestion were to be implemented - miniters would take ONLY populist measures - and our economy would be like Pakistan.
    What I think we need is people with strong value system leading India.
    Raj.

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