I held myself back couple of times but this time I couldn’t and decided to write about the corrupt political system and the kind of people entering into the politics. My question is “do we see a chance of current CORRUPT political system being changed in the near future”?
Before I touch upon the core issue would like to make a disclaimer : My views are not in favor/against any person or a political party. If I refer to a party or an individual it is just based on my limited knowledge and I could be wrong as well.
In the last few months we hear a lot about corruption and the politicians involvement in it. For me it looks there is no boundary for corruption; it is there in all the political parties no matter whether they are in power or out of power. May be the ratio is less if they are not in power. There are few people who still have some values and are trying not to be corrupt (like Sureshkumar, a minister in the current govt). If we recall the recent incidents in Karnataka, I get a feeling that is this the state which was ruled by a politician like Sri S Nijalingappa who couldn’t even afford to construct a house for his own? Many of the current politician talks only in terms of crores and we have seen many of the MLAs selling themselves for 50-60 Cr.
Scams which are currently being exposed are in the tune of thousands of crores and there is no limit to it. We now know where the tax payers money is going. It is either with politicians or with bureaucrats. If this is not being stopped then I don’t see a chance that a common man get into politics/government jobs.
Just to give two examples from the recent elections which I have seen closely. Gramapanchayat elections were held few months ago and most of the candidates contested were in the age bracket of 25-32 years old. These guys have neither studied properly nor struggled in their life at least to earn some bucks. They just spent the hard earned money of their parents, some guys lost the election and some guys won. I asked the guys who have won the election, their single point of agenda is to make some money. It hurts a lot if you listen the way “National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” is being miss used by these guys. In future these guys will move from grampanchayat to district level and then to state and national level. Do you expect anything better from these guys when they become MLAs/MPs?
To quote from the recent BBMP election; if you had followed the BBMP election and most importantly the candidate selection. It was such a tough competition and tickets were literally sold. Most candidates (men/women) are involved in real-estate and they made hell lot of money through illegal land grabbing. I am personally very close (don’t want to name them) to two of the candidates who won the BBMP election; both were/are into real estate and I tried to closely observe them to see how they make money; first thing they do is, get the project sanctioned and award them to their family member/friend companies. Secondly they identify all the govt land and buy a piece of property nearby and grab the portion of govt land illegally. There are several other ways they make money and keep it ready for next elections.
Since people join politics with the lust of making money and to expand their legacy; there is no chance that the system could be improved. I hope that the media plays a bigger role in the coming years and expose every illegal activities of politicians so that they run away from politics as they can't face voters!
