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Kamal Nath with 40 years experience in the Congress party, in my view, can be the right choice.

Ram Lal Vedanta

 

 

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In my opinion, Sushil Kumar Shinde a seasoned leader can be a successful Congress President.

Vivek Dhawan

 

 

Checks & Balances work in a Moral Environment

Why does the Transparency International paint India as the most corrupt Asian country year after year? Is it biased or its research flawed? Neither. We need to look within this Constitution Day 2020. Our Constitution had set moral standards high, promising us the Rule of Law. Only our governments have failed us. Instead of clean governance, we got dishonest governments, which spread corruption widely in all the ranks. This environment does not sustain clean public servants. Absence of a code of moral values is responsible for this state of affairs. Moral values are not enforceable in a court of law in India. That is unfortunate. Our satisfaction is that the Constitution still prevails in spite of the collapse of checks and balances on ground. The citizen is dissatisfied. That is the reason for change of government so often induced by public disgust against corruption. The corrupt have no morals. Their allegiance to the constitution is superficial. They exercise power only but do not serve. They neither establish the rule of law nor contribute to strengthen it. The fact that corruption cases have registered phenomenal increase in the last 50 years only proves the point that the Rule of Law does not work at the ground level. Like it or not, the corrupt outnumber the honest in government as well as private sectors. We have little respect for honesty. Because of it even the doctrine of checks and balances has failed us. The legislators can’t check the dishonest executive and the executive does not check the dishonest bureaucracy. The result is that the cutting edge of administration tends to act like the government and the citizen feels so helpless and forced to pay bribe. The court exercises its authority when a case is filed before it, which is no easy exercise and is practically unable to supervise the functioning of the government on a daily basis. Too much of law and too little moral values does not uphold the Rule Of Law, without which the constitution remains just another statute. Even a tragedy like COVID-19 is immorally turned in to a political lever and means of making quick illegal money in which doctors, private hospitals and pharmaceutical companies indulge freely.

M L Gupta

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