History would mention the term Janlokpal. It had been in the back burner since last forty years. Introduced in Parliament in 1968 by Shanti Bhusan, one of the present Team Anna Member Prashant Bhusan's father, had been passed in Lok Sabha but defeated in Rajya Sabha in 1969.
History seems to be get repeated in 2011. But with murkier fiasco at the lower house. The bill could not master even the simple majority to become an issue for consideration of constitutional amendment. And it is to be presented to Rajya Sabha tomorrow. What appears murkier is that Government does not seem too keen to put it for a straight voting, as a defeat would obviously by infeence give the impression that the government neither have majority in lower house nor upper house, and consequently it can be a tremendous loss of face amounting to a call for resignation. They cannot afford it.
On the other hand if the improbable happens, i.e. say it gets through then it becomes a law. From the current scenario it seems highly probable that it would get challenged in the forum of the Highest Court of Land. Then what happens? In spite of its being a law it would not become effective as one because the validity would get challenged and subject to evaluation by the Highest Judicial authority, and since the law would not have the status of a constitutional amendment its status would effectively lessened to that extent in the eyes of law as the enactment.
So what happens to the fight against corruption which is the bane of our country. It gets mired into a Legal Battle for right or wrong, and in the meanwhile corruption continues. Sad but the stark truth - Politics reign supreme.
History seems to be get repeated in 2011. But with murkier fiasco at the lower house. The bill could not master even the simple majority to become an issue for consideration of constitutional amendment. And it is to be presented to Rajya Sabha tomorrow. What appears murkier is that Government does not seem too keen to put it for a straight voting, as a defeat would obviously by infeence give the impression that the government neither have majority in lower house nor upper house, and consequently it can be a tremendous loss of face amounting to a call for resignation. They cannot afford it.
On the other hand if the improbable happens, i.e. say it gets through then it becomes a law. From the current scenario it seems highly probable that it would get challenged in the forum of the Highest Court of Land. Then what happens? In spite of its being a law it would not become effective as one because the validity would get challenged and subject to evaluation by the Highest Judicial authority, and since the law would not have the status of a constitutional amendment its status would effectively lessened to that extent in the eyes of law as the enactment.
So what happens to the fight against corruption which is the bane of our country. It gets mired into a Legal Battle for right or wrong, and in the meanwhile corruption continues. Sad but the stark truth - Politics reign supreme.
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