Thursday, July 22, 2010

MURDER OF RTI ACTIVIST

SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

(Guinness Record Holder & RTI Activist based on New Delhi)


It refers to shocking murder of yet another whistle-blower RTI activist Amit Jethwa in Gujarat. Immediate concrete steps are needed at the highest level. Fortunately in a mud of politically corrupt system, we also have some ideals like Smt Sonia Gandhi and Dr Manmohansingh. A super-high level meeting between Chairperson of National Advisory Council, Prime Minister, Chief Information Commissioner Shri Wajahat Habibullah, RTI crusaders Smt Aruna Roy and Shri Arvind Kejriwal should be urgently summoned to trace practical ways for preventing murder of RTI activists and other whistle-blowers.

It is an irony that criminals and corrupt ones entered in our political system get security, while whistle-blowers have threat to life from such notorious politicians or those patronised by such politicians. If our governance system cannot provide security to those who have a crusade to expose corruption, then our elected representatives also should not have any right to burden exchequers heavily for their security which in most cases is nothing but status-symbol. Security-cover of all Parliamentarians, members of state-legislatures and ministers (both central and state) should be abolished till foolproof security may be provided to whistle-blowers. Those who are worried of their life due to being in public life need not contest elections.

Only President, Vice president, Prime Minister and Chief Ministers should be provided security-cover apart from some others like members of Nehru-Gandhi family who are under high-risk of militant-threats. Things can automatically improve when our system gets refined to an extent that people like Aruna Roy, Arvind Kejriwal etc may not have any hesitation to replace present breed of corrupt politicians running politics like money-minting business-shops.

4 comments:

  1. Kundan, u brought very important case to the notice that demands a serious attention of the governance of the country. The security related issue that u discussed above is another serious concern that the govt. need to rethink upon......i totally agree to the point that the public representatives should not be provided with any kind security if the lives of the whistle blowers are not secured in the society......once again thank u for bringing this murder case to the notice. let's keep the drill on......

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  2. This is not the single case the murder of whitsle blowers has turned out to be a very common phenonmenon in states like Maharastra, what i feel is now the time has come to take some serious action and come up with voices merely demanding meetings wont do..we need action...all of these people are well aware of the corrupt system..and we are already in scarcity of good people, now we cant afford to loose the already scarce resource..come on wake up.....

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  3. hmmmm.........we need action more than words, this is what I can say after reading your effort

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  4. nice blog ...but problem in opening in template.
    change the font color.
    we should expect some useful discussion

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