Will our Corrupt Leaders awake atleast now or wait out for the storm ???

The one major evil that our India is facing today is Corruption, which has tarnished the glorious history and image if India amongst the intellectuals of the world. The corruption in India has a sad story to tell not only to her own people, but also to the rest of the globe. Corruption has been deeply rooted into lives without even knowing that we are corrupted. Right from the beggar every individual, knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly, is involved in corruption. To live in India one needs to study the corruption here and learn how to deal with. The virus of corruption has spread into every field without any exception. And it has become difficult for an individual to live without being corrupted.

            There is a cry on corruption India these days. No one is leaving a chance to curse our political leaders for the current situation of politics and theirs limitless scams. Corruption has strengthened its roots in politics and it has been spread into other fields. Our greedy politicians have come into power just to make money, but not to serve out country. They just want their pockets to be filled by looting the common man. They are least bothered about the people who are dying of hunger. Our present politics is a fight for power and run for money. It is a carrier of lump sum income for lifetime. It has become a business to earn money and power. If we take overall glance at our present situation in India, we will notice that only few people are getting fat a salary leaving the rest to starve in poverty, i.e., India is shining only to the people working on the IT sector while farmers are suffering.

            Present toothless anti-corruption laws are hardly effective. They are made by the corrupts and for the corrupts. Not a single high level officer or politician has ever been jailed for involving in corruption or any scam.

Technically we know what needs to be done to check the black economy, but the problem is politics. The top echelons of the leadership are the prime drivers of black money n corruption. The problem is not new. Consider Bofors or the 2g spectrum case. Initially there has been denial in the action and then minimal action, allowing the culprits time to escape (just as in case Hasan Ali’s case where the money has disappeared). More than Rs.35 lakh crores of black income is generated annually and about 10% of it goes abroad. The capital lost through this route is greater than annual foreign investment. Yet action is minimal.

The govt. Pleads tax havens not reveal the names unless criminality is established. And that Swiss govt. does not treat tax evasion as a crime. In India, laws on paper and in practice differ because of the traid of the corrupt business class, political class and the executive class, who bend rules to their advantage. The philosophy is – “if I’m in power, I can bend the rules according to my favour ”

Unless there is a major revolution to change the government, then it's near to impossible to eradicate the corruption practice. Our leaders should realize their responsibilities atleast now and work for the real progress of our Nation. Otherwise the future of India is Bleak.