Mr. Rajeev Chandrashekar,
Member of Parliament from Karnataka,
211, North Avenue, New Delhi 110001
Dear Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar,
We have been crying ourselves hoarse on the need to fight the endemic corruption in India. But corruption has only grown in leaps and bounds.
Why? Is it because there haven’t been enough people trying to root corruption out? Not at all. It’s because the ABILITY for perpetuating corruption is embedded in our constitution. It’s in Article 311. I’m sure you are aware of it, but maybe in a different context.
Mr. JP who was on your panel show on CNN-IBN tonight has, as is common wisdom, shown that the root cause is the need for political parties to raise huge sums of money for elections. The cry for electoral funding has failed to stop the spread of money power in elections, as you will well know. A short précis is here
Electoral reform will follow if we cut out the ABILITY to be corrupt in the political arena. That stems from a basic DEFECT in our constitution. Article 311.
If this article 311 is amended such that the “permission” to prosecute a corrupt government official (whether Political or Bureaucratic) is taken away from his own corrupt masters and instead lies with the courts to be determined by primafacie evidence, then the vicious circle of endemic corruption will be broken, dealing a death knell to the flourishing corruption industry. A short note is here.
Let’s stop wailing and start acting, effectively.
Regards,
J Srinivasan
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust