Tuesday, June 21, 2011

PM : Should be in or out

This is becoming the debate of the year (or decade I should say) that whether PM should be under the purview of lokpal or not. Most of the people think that it should come as he's a normal Indian and no one is above the law while others say that as he's the supreme of the govt, so he should be immune. Below I am posting my opinion on this debate (off course I can as this is my blog and I have all the rights to express :-) )

As per the civil society (which includes Annaji, Arvind kejriwal, Prashant bhushan, shashi Bhushan, Santosh Hegde, Kiran Bedi and other 237076 people supporting on FB page of India Against Corruption) they want to keep the PM in the ambit of Lokpal. Now what is the harm to keep the highest chief of government out side Lokpal jurisdiction? He's the most respectable person in Indian parliament. Most of you also think in the same way which is right. But here comes the hidden problems of keeping him out of Lokpal jurisdiction:

  1. Its not just PM which will be out of the purview of Lokpal but the whole PMO (Prime Minister's Office) as all the decisions, policies and laws has to go from there atleast once in its life time. So this simply means that for any case which Lokpal is investigating, and it includes PMO, the inquiry can not proceed as we have already kept the PMO immune. Even if you take the recent examples, PMO is involved in some way or other, but no one can blame on it anything because we have the most honest PM (??) and we should not doubt his integrity.
  2. As all ministries are linked to each other and a single bill has to take permissions from so many ministries and in most of the cases PMO is also involved. So we are back to same point.
  3. Also there is no provision in Constitution of India to make the PM a special person which can be kept out of the law made by parliament. So if someone trying to put PM out of the law, its a violation of the Constitution of India (Article 14, Equality before law)
  4. Govt wants to keep the PM in jurisdiction of Lokpal under some conditions (still not officially confirmed) that once the PM has left the office he can be interrogated. Just yesterday Supreme Court of India rejected the bail plea of Kanimozhi on the grounds that while she is out of the jail, she might try to influence the witnesses and may damage the evidences. Kanimozhi just a bare MP and daughter of former CM can be suspected and denied bail on such grounds, so imagine what PM can do with his power while he is still in the office holding the post.

These are few points on which on one can object to bring PM under the purview of Lokpal, and why should someone object, he's the chief servant of people of India, so he holds the moral responsibility to work with clean image. If you are clean then why you are afraid of law.

There are other points also on which there is a disagreement between two sides on which we can discuss later as this is enough for this blog.

Please correct me if I have missed out something or misquoted something.

Thanks for giving your time for making a better India. Please spread the word to those who are still immune to Lokpal debate.

~wadi

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