Corruption in India
Sukh Ram Gets Three Years In Jail
By Dalip Singh Wasan
A Special Court in India has found an ex-minister guilty of amassing wealth beyond his recognized sources of income and has sentenced him to three years jail term and fine of rupees two lac. We the people of India congratulate the police investigating authorities who investigated the case, collected evidence and the Court who examined the whole case and passed final order of sentence. This case shall become the foundation for examining more cases and in due course we shall be finding more and more people who had been holding high offices and at the same time they had been indulging in scams, scandals, muddles, bribes, corruption, dalali or commissions. The people of India know that most of the politicians who were penny less or were poor people have turned rich in days which clearly means that here in India the people are joining politics only with one purpose and that is the purpose of amassing wealth. Very few of them could be counted and enlisted who are coming forward to serve the people by solving their problems. Had we been choosing right type of people for our august houses, there had been chances that they could solve our problems. The problems were very simple and we had the resources with us. Our is a rich country and there4 was a time when this country of us had been called ' golden sparrow'.
We know that all natural resources are with us and it seems we had not been examining the cases of each candidate and we had been voting him out only on the basis of the fact that some party had nominated him. We never tried to examine that this fellow might have been purchased party ticket or this shall be purchasing ministry too. We are noting that a large number of people are sitting in the houses who never talk or take part in any debate or discussion and when the party heads ask them or direct them they follow the whip and vote as per directions. They are just sitting members and they never contribute in debates. Such people should not have been sent by us in the houses. It is our duty that we should send only those people who shall be in a position to understand our problems and work on those problems and come out with solutions. We know that the basic problems of illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, people living without proper accommodation, beggars, people wearing rags, people who are ill and are not getting proper treatment, people who have got no social security in old age and in days of their illness and all these problems are not allowing our people to live a reasonable life. But none is caring for them
Mr Sukh Ram has been sentenced and has been fined. But the assets which he had amassed during his tenure has not been confiscated and the same shall remain with him and then with his heirs and they shall live like kings and queens hereafter. The time has come when we should make a law that all those assets which are found beyond recognized source of income must go to the state exchequer. And at the same time, we must start probing wealth of all those who had been ministers here in India since 1952 and if those assets are found beyond recognized source of income those must be collected and confiscated to state exchequer. If they are dead, their children must deposit those assets with the state because they too are not allowed to enjoy on these properties.
We are not in a position to stop corruption, but if we start with the process of confiscation, we shall be successful and there are chances the people coming to politics must stop collecting money and wealth. And we must start immediately. We have already wasted six decades and instead of bring equality in the country, we are making one set of people rich and one set of people are being reduced to poverty. This is not good administration and we must change this administration. The police and all other investigating agencies must help the people. At present police and other investigating agencies are keeping silence when the people are in power and start catching and investigating cases only when they go out of power and another party comes in power and in the mean time most of the evidence is destroyed.; The police and other investigating agencies must have an eye on all the politicians and must catch them when they are operating upon their plans and must stop them. And that shall be possible only when politic of other states are deployed in the state. The local police has not the guts and that is the reason these people are coming and becoming rich in days. The Sukh Ram case must create history in India.