Corrupt politicians of India

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index of 2012 ranks India on 94^th place out of 176 countries in ties with Benin, Colombia, Djibouti, Greece, Moldova, Mongolia, and Senegal. India’s corruption basically accounts to entitlement programs & social spending schemes enacted by Indian government. MNREGA, NRHM, CWG, Colgate & 2G Spectrum scams are just a few recent representatives of corruption in India. The list goes endless when we delve deeper into it and investigate further, back to the times of India’s independence in 1947. Corruption isn’t just India’s own epidemic, it is a global problem faced by all the nations of the world.

Everyone and everything has known corruption in some sort or the other, and has developed its own special way of combating it, either with same resistance or with non-violence. Non-violence made Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma he became from just an ordinary lawyer, today India breaths in free air and is thankful to Mahatma Gandhi, our father of nation. John Steinbeck writes, “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” That very fear he talks about has been the nightmare of most politicians in India and has kept them floating free till date. It is not that those politicians are mightier than the citizens, but because of the fact that, to an extent the masses have learnt living with it, adapting to the compromises in everyday life.

Hari Singh resisted to the adamant corruption which made the ruling government a silent spectator to the brutal massacre of innocent people, the events shook him to the core and he decided to act. He went ahead and took some revolutionary steps which the system later defined as crime, but it was just for the sake of humanity indeed. Everyone realized the sacrificed made by Hari Singh when the matter went to court and a lifetime of imprisonment was awarded to him, now when he is serving the punishment for the alleged crime he attempted against the corruption & the corrupt, the masses have started realizing the need of attending to the call for help by Hari Singh & his family, and that too for sake of humanity.

Not to target any of the corrupt leaders who have paved the way for the devastation of Indian democracy & its failure as a society, it becomes inevitable to come for rescue of a man who risked his life for saving the lives of 90 crore citizens of India. We may belong to any of the faiths or religions but this is a time when we have to show our solidarity for a person who didn’t think about religions of the ones he was saving and did put his future at stake. He risked it all for humanity, now we have to act to save humanity by bringing him back to his life as a family man. Let’s join hands and pledge that we will try our best to take back Hari Singh’s life to normalcy & ensure immunity & amnesty to him. Justice for Hari Singh.