LOKPAL

Everyone is talking about Anna hazzare and his fast unto death.After the Govt's announcement of formation of a drafting committee,people are celebrating as if they have achieved something big.Some even compare it with events happening in North Africa,but their is lot of difference between them.Here, no major change in governance or constitution took place.People are being misled by media ,it's simply an illusion that a lokpal can clear up all the mess in our system. I have reasons why i feel its not got to be productive first of all,Anna Hazzare himself might be clean,but the same cant be said about people around him especially the Bhushans.Shanti Bhushan is said to have 202 crores of assest,some claim he got it by acting as a broker to various illegal deals.Dont know for sure whether they are all rumours or true incidents, but as all of us know there is no smoke without fire.But one thing is not clear why out of the 5 members of the civil soceity, two are from the same family.I think India perhaps does not have enough literate people. Secondly,there are two options before the drafting committee ,either they make the Lokpal a super cop with unlimited authority or power or they limit his jurisdicton.As we know "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".I dont want to discuss the consequences of the second option. Thirdly and most importantly, the lokpal will be one among us, he wont be coming from venus or mars. What happened in North Africa was that the Govt. as a whole was overthrown,not just a mere addition of an official(corrupt).Actually we dont even need such largescale change .The change will surely come if people themselves change.Change has to be within not outside, because we are the people who every five years choose our so called corrupt and inefficient leaders.