Jan Lokpal Bill - My Perspective

If you can read the post Reality Check India - Jan Lok Pal - Caveat Emptor, then you don't need to read this post. The following is my version of what it said.

I do not want to live in a dictatorship country. I want to live in a democratic country. I would like to elect the person who can rule the country for five years.

In the name of curbing corruption, we cannot introduce dictatorship. We need to maintain the democracy, and that is the foremost priority. If Jan Lokpal bill undermines democracy or tries to bring dictatorship, then that must be stopped. If there is no democracy, then there is no value for the Independence.

At the end, I want to give the power to the person whom I elected, and not to anyone else. I should be able to control everything, provided I can convince more than 50% of the people. If I cannot do that, then that is not democracy.

In the present Jan Lokpal Bill, the following things are very worried and many people raised this issue. But, they were given a stamp that, they are against reducing corruption.

1. Bringing Prime Minister under Lokpal.
At any point of time, the country must have a leader. Otherwise, there would be many issues.

2. Supreme Court and High Court Justices.
Supreme Court and High Courts are very important for the country, and they have given complete independence, so that, they can act better. In case of any problems with that, then the parliament cannot take action with 2/3rd majority, and not 50% majority. So, the parliament can take action only if opposition also agrees. If there is any other institution on top of supreme court and high court, or on top of the justices, that would lead to many issues.

3. Bringing the MPs behavior under Lokpal including talking and voting in Parliament.
4. Controlling and removing Civil Servants in the state and union governments.
5. Having the powers of courts, and giving the powers of courts to other members.

All these, simply means, creating a dictatorship in our democracy in the name of reducing corruption. The dictatorship works best, when the dictator is good. The country would collapse, if he/she is bad. I want democracy, so that, I can elect a dictator (for 5 years) who is good.

I don't like Jan Lokpal Bill in it's present form, and I don't have any respect for any of the proposers of that bill as well.