It’s the time citizens of India need to unite and fight the corruption in the country. This is the time when we all need to come together and sought the voice of India and the common man of India. This is the high time. We all are fade up of corruption. But it is not the politicians and the government servants only who are corrupt but we all are involved in some or the other way.
None of your legal work or issue can be resolved without giving the bribe. You want a passport, you go to the police station for the criminal verification, you give 200 Rs for getting the clean certificate even if you have not committed a single crime in your entire life or even if you have not seen the police station in your entire life. You want a driving license, go to the RTO, you would keep struggling getting the license if you are not hiring any RTO agent. Because the money you give to the RTO agent flows from bottom to top !
It is not the case that only the government officers and politicians are corrupt only. We the public are also not excluded. If you are caught on the traffic signal breaking the red light, you will give 50-100 Rs to the cop and try to settle the matter there which will save you from the actual penalty which may be more that what you are giving to the cop as a bribe. You think of yourself only that you have saved some money but what you are doing is corruption. I am not saying that I have not done corruption in my life. Being in this corrupt system you are forced to do so if you want the quick results.
From this traffic cop I remember an incident happened to me 2 years ago. I was new to Pune. It might have been 5-6 months I had been transferred to Pune from Hyderabad. I was going home at around 6 in the PM. There is a traffic signal just besides the gate of my company. It was yellow light and I was almost in the middle of the crossing the side so I though to cross the road instead of stopping there in the middle. The yellow light turned into red and the cop stopped me just right there. I argued that it was yellow when I started to cross the signal but the cop refused to listen to any one of them. He asked for the license. I saw the license. So he asked for the PUC and I saw PUC. Still he was determined to rob me ! He asked for the RTO registration book and other documents and I there I was. Unfortunately I did not have the documents and even the photo copies of them. All of them were at home. He did not agree to my arguments. He asked for some thousand rupees !! On such incidents you think that you should be aware of some common laws and rules which can save you sometime. At last I had to settle the matter there and I gave 100 bucks to the cop. I felt so much guilty as I had given the bribe to the cop. I had not committed any offence though I had to give money. The only fault of mine was that I did not have the photo copies of the RC book of my bike.
Corruption has spread across almost everywhere. You see a road in your city being under construction for more than 2 years, but it will take only a monsoon season to deconstruct it !! What a hight of corruption ! You see a metro bridge construction which collapses even before it is completed and innocent people dies. Instead of accepting the guilt, these babus claim that it was technical mistake and the people responsible were those who were building them. After every monsoon when you are driving in the city, you feel like you are in fear factor competition. You do not find even a 5 meter road without the holes. And the holes are of 1-2 feet deep ! Why am I suffering this when I am paying very high taxes to the government ? Just because these babus and the officers can fill up their homes with all that money ? Everyday we hear the news of some new scam. 2G, CWG, illegal mining, illegal foreign exchange and so on…..Not now. This is the high time and we need to raise our voice against the corruption.
The battle of corruption can not be fought until we all are united. The battle of corruption can not be fought until we are determined not to do any corruption. The battle of corruption can not be fought until an individual takes an oath not to give bribe and not to do the corruption. The fight has to be start from one and all.
There is a great man out there in Delhi fighting for all of us through non violence and fasting. Yes, we all should support Annaji and his great cause for the nation of India. Let us raise our voice against the corruption and support Annaji and his team through whatever way we can.
