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My take on the so called 'Anti Corruption' movement

This is how I view the ‘Anna agitation’, based on my understanding of the current situation. There are enough laws existing to govern our Country. Implementation and enforcement of the laws, and judicial reforms is the need of the hour. One more law - an anti corruption law, will in no way guarantee eradication of corruption in the Country. Creating an unaccountable ombudsman will add another such check post unless you believe, like Hazare, that Gandhian purity can keep the Lokpal’s office forever clean. We are in a sense, barking up the wrong tree.  Envisioning a system whereby the Lokpal - an all powerful body who will oversee and prosecute the Prime Minister, all politicians, the entire judiciary, and the rank and file of the Government machinery. Team Anna has proposed a way by which the Lokpal and the Lokayukt will be appointed, but there is no answer to the question  " Who supervises the Lokpal'? Imagining an end to corruption by making a Lokpal sit in judgment over e