New Delhi, 15th October, 2011.
National President, Indian Justice Party
Today, a National
Seminar was organized by All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations and other like minded organizations in Speaker Hall, Constitution Club,
New Delhi. This was participated by Dr. Udit Raj, D. Raja, Swami
Agnivesh,Mast Ram Kapur, Ibrahim Qureshi, M.S. Scaria, Brij Bhushan
Tiwari, Prof. Ravivarma Kumar, Shajia Ilmi, Sharad Yadav, Raghu Thakur,
M. R. Gyasi etc. The main theme of the seminar was to have discussion on
all versions of the Lok Pal Bill and find out practical solution of
this vexed problem. This seminar was mainly organized by the platform of
Bahujan Lok Pal Bill.
Dr. Udit Raj, National Chairman of
All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations said that even if Jan
Lok Pal Bill is passed in the current shape, there is no guarantee that
it will be effective in weeding out corruption. There are more than
1450 laws in the country and most of them are not successful. There are
certain demands in the Jan Lok Pal Bill which are detrimental to the
Constitution and in such a situation, instead of weeding out corruption
we may land up in other complications. We stand for a strong Lok Pal but
that should be within the ambit of the Constitution and have
practicality. According to the demands of Jan Lok Pal Bill, all three
organs of the Govt., namely, executive, judiciary and legislature should
report to the Lok Pal and in that situation fine and delicate balance
in the Constitution will be disturbed. The famous saying, power corrupts
and absolute power corrupts absolutely is to be kept in mind while
passing the law. Members of the Parliament are elected by about 15 lacs
people, this is a very strong deterrent and yet most of them are prone
to corruption. Honesty and dishonesty are determined when a person is in
the position to become corrupt. As on date, the country is
contemplating about Lok Pal and real position will come out only when
law is made and Lok Pal Committee starts functioning. Whatever
transparency is taken into account in selecting the Lok Pal,
possibilities of being corrupt can not be ruled out and thus there
should be reasonable enough power with it and absolute and
unaccountable power should be avoided. Our Constitution embodies fine
and delicate balance between executive, legislature and judiciary and
these should be preserved.
Dr. Udit Raj spoke in the
seminar that the Bahujan Lok Pal was needed because other bills do not
talk about social justice. Without reservation for dalits, tribals, OBCs
and minorities in the Lok Pal committee as it is in govt. jobs, the law
itself will fail and the reason is that support of each major section
of the society is not taken care of. We want that each section of the
society should fully support a strong Lok Pal Bill so that objectives to
fight corruption are achieved. Dr. Udit Raj urged Anna Hazare and his
team people to support the demand of Bahujan Lok Pal Bill and it will be
in their interests also. Even after passing the Lok Pal Bill, if it is
not implemented then the efforts of Anna team will be drained out. .
NGOs
and Corporate houses should be also brought under the ambit of Lok Pal.
In any situation, the tenure of Lok Pal should not be more than three
years. Enormous funds are dispersed through special component and
sub-tribal plans for the development of Dalits and tribals but there is
huge corruption, diversion and un-utilization thereof and such acts
should be also treated as corruption and be brought within the ambit of
Lok Pal.
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