Do not wait for 2019, support the good governance of Modiji

Conviction of former coal secretary HC Gupta and his two deputies KS Kropha and KC Samaria by CBI special judge Bharat Parashar on May 22, 2017 has come with the tone of jubilation and sadness to people of India. The sadness is that many believe that the convicted bureaucrats have not obtained any pecuniary advantage for themselves and enjoys impeccable integrity. The real truth is far away to ordinary citizens of India.

The reason for jubilation is that the law is going to take its course under the regime of Modiji. The present Government is going to go merciless towards all corrupt politicians and officials in India.

The conviction must be seen beyond the scope of coal allocation or any wrong doing associated with it.

It is largely believed that the nexus between babus (bureaucrats) and netas (political leaders) is well known and bapus are the real catalysts and nucleus of every wrong doing in our country. Once the babus are brought under severe punishment regime, certainly it would send clear warning signal to all those bapus who are fomenting various undercut dealings and facilitate the politicians to continue the regime of corruption and black money. From that perspective the conviction has send its small waves of jubilation although the victims were said to be innocents.

Severe punishment must start somewhere to end the pandemic disease – corruption in India. Reform in Indian politics is must. One of the best reforms (although difficult to implement but) must be attempted to implement should be the norms for declaring the winner candidate after election. The MLA’s and MP’s must secure more 50% vote in the given constituency and only such candidate should be declared winner. But today anyone with just 100 more votes also can become MLA, MP or even chief minister when the contest is multi-polar. Only this situation has lead to the invention of ‘cash for vote’ formula for the first time in Indian politics by the Dravidian party in Tirumangalam in Tamil Nadu.

When such strict norm of securing over 50% vote in any given constituency is mandated, the leader has to work for the constituency, must win the good will, must regularly connect with people, must win the faith of the people, must have impeccable integrity, must be beyond the party matrix etc.

Although such reform may bring initially some uncertainty and vacuum in politics but such situation will be transient and may not last long. It also would create necessity among political parties to work towards reforming the society towards the importance of voting and how the ordinary citizens can change future of the country.

Indian bureaucracy and political class must develop nexus to reform our country than giving any unnecessary scope for interpretation and extrapolation of such nexus as meant to loot the country.

Certainly the judgment has come as warning signal to all those bureaucrats who assume that they are beyond accountability and punishment for their misdeeds.

Although Modiji’s Government may not have any say in the court proceedings but people of this country must recognize one important truth that Modiji’s administration is clean, development centric and wants to clean Indian politics.

To have great future for India, continuation of Modiji as Prime Minister of India beyond 2019 (mission II of Modiji) is inevitable. India is changing and therefore people of this country should not assume that it is the duty and responsibility of BJP and Modiji to reach out to people with all facts and figures of reform measures and development steps and the results, people also must owns up the responsibility to disseminate the essence of good and clean governance of Modiji to the society and ensure the present Government continues beyond its present term.

It is not politics or BJP, but goodness and welfare of India only all ‘apolitical citizens’ of this country must desire. Youths also must do their bit by spreading the positive message about Modiji and such duty should not be reserved only during election.

When citizens do their bit by supporting Modiji, certainly the Government also will act very responsibly because the Government will sense that people are not only with the Government but also are watching the Government carefully.

Dr S Ranganathan