Mr.Salman Khurshid, the Union Minister for Law & Justice, says "that people in government can never be honest and fair is hardly the foundation on which democracy can be sustained .... obsessive suspicion of elected representatives is the beginning of the end of democracy and freedom". I think he has got a point in what he says. But the working of Indian parliamentary democracy so far hasn't gained the confidence of the majority in our society although they have been unable to express their anger and annoyance other than through elections once in five years with clear and sometimes unclear verdicts.
Anna Hazare's movement attracted the mobs for a while hoping for a better and quicker solutions to their day-to-day worries and unsatisfactory working of the elected governments and their permanent executives both at the apex level and lower levels. Looking to the history and the complexity of political set-up and party-functioning in the country at the moment the Lokpal Bill is unlikely to get passed soon and even if passed it will remain far from satisfactory from the expectations of Team Anna.
Solution however lies in a referendum through the next General Elections to the Lok Sabha on this subject. Well, otherwise the issue of corruption can be effectively tackled by the existing laws of the land provided the judiciary acts tough and the parties have a political will to achieve the desired goal.
