Who is more powerful a Dog or a Lion?

             The fast unto death undertaken by the noted social activist Anna Hazare ,to persuade the Indian government  to introduce  Jan Lokpal Bill instead of powerless Lokpal Bill drafted by group of Ministers (GoM),has entered 4^th day.He has received a tremendous support  of  the common people from all walks of life ,with people staging  protests and taking out rallies in support of  his demand for introduction of Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by a panel of judicial experts , social activists,like Lokayukta of Karnataka Mr. Santosh Hegde and well known legal expert Mr. Prashant Bhushan and india’s first woman IPS Mrs. Kiran Bedi.  Anna Hazare and his supporters notably the RTI activist Arun Kejrival and Swami Agnivesh have been insisting  to set up a committee consisting of fifty percent of members from  civil society consisting of experts from various fields and NGO’s, so that common man can have an active role in drafting of the Lokpal Bill.

The  Lokpal Bill in its present form drafted by Group of Ministers (GoM) on corruption is a toothless tiger with no real powers to either control corruption  nor  curb corruption. Some of the main proposals of the Lokpal bill as drafted by the GoM are:

Transparency International Global Corruption Index 2010

The Transparency International Report on corruption has been released. The Transparency International is a global civil society organization which leads the fight against corruption, and publishes its much acclaimed annual report on Corruption in various countries and corruption perception index which measures the perceived levels  of  public sector corruption in 178 countries around the world. For detailed report of Transparency International Report on  public sector corruption please visit http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010.

 While Denmark,New Zealand and Singapore are voetd to be the cleanest, Somalia is classified as the most corrupt.

Transparency International has placed India at 87^th place out of  178 countries, with China at 78^th place.

Please see the map of Global Corruption Index for relative Ranks of various Countries.

Global Corruption Index Map

Note: The images shown are copyright of Transparency International.

Is the resignation by Union Telecom Minister A.Raja enough.... ?

Now as the Union Telecom Minister A.Raja has resigned from his chair, following the outrage from opposition as well as the CAG report clearly pointing to his involvement in the multi-crore Telecom Scam, the question that arises in the mind of common people is that, Is it enough on the part of a person who is involved in one of the biggest scams that happened in post-independent India, just to submit his resignation and get away. Is it not the responsibility of Government of India , to punish the guilty and send clear signal that the law of land is the same for everyone.

Please, Post your comments about the scam and the action that should be taken against the guilty.