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The Anti-Anna Celebrities
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 03 September 2011, 02:25 IST |
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Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP claims that the Lokpal bill as omnipotent and Anna Hazare's detention over a week ago was "unwise" and adds that a strong Lokpal was needed, but "a large, omnipotent and unaccountable supra-institution" can itself fall prey to corruption.
If the current governmental bodies tasked with investigation, vigilance, and audit are deemed to be insufficiently impervious to corruption, it is worth asking what guarantee there is that the new institution of Jan Lokpal could not be infected by the same virus and if so, what could be done about it, since it would literally be a law unto itself.
We must build in safeguards to ensure that a new institution of Lokpal doesn't itself fall prey to corruption, Tharoor said.
As a course correction, he suggested that a Lokpal be created quickly, but to limit its existence to seven years so that its flaws can be reviewed before it is renewed by a fresh act of parliament.
Tharoor stressed that although everyone agreed on the need to eliminate corruption, the real debate was about choosing the right means to do so.
