EX MUNCIPALITY CHAIRMAN FINALLY SURRENDERS BEFORE THE SDJM 23/11/2011
ODISHA UPDATE:-
SAMBALPUR:-
The ex municipality Chairman Girish patel surrendered before the SDJM, Sambalpur in a fake certificate case and was released on bail on Tuesday afternoon. The BJP bahubali , is a Gujarati by caste , who held the position of Chairman of the Sambalpur Municipality from the year 2004 to 2008 was guilty of obtaining a fake OBC certificate in his favor. Police had registered a case against him due to the pressure of many political parties but did not arrest him due to the affairs he was handling during Advani’s Rath yatra. What an irony? One can easily assess the mindset of the police officers and district administrations.
Girish patel managed to get a bail from the High Court and surrendered before the SDJM, Sambalpur as per the High Court order after furnishing an amount of RS 20,000. The court imposed certain conditions on him like he will not commit any similar offence in the future, not to temper with the evidences and report to the local police station on every Saturday.
Girish patel originally belong to Gujrat and was elected as a Chairman of the Muncipal Council at Sambalpur in 2004, even though the post was reserved for the OBC category. Thanks to the Indian democracy and Advani’s anti- corruption drive. Patel managed to procure the fake certificate from the Tahsil office, showing him as a member of the “Chasa Community” i.e. a farmer caste. It was a matter of surprise that the Tahsildar gave the certificate under the pressure of the local BJP MLA Jaynarayan Mishra.
This matter created uproar when a whistle blower Arabind sahu filed a review petition in the Tahsil challenging the legality of the certificate. However, patel because of his money power got a stay over the matter from the High Court and finished his tenure as a Chairman despite of criticism from various organizations.
Finally, Sambalpur Tahsil cancelled the certificate on March 2010 because the High Court order to early disposal of the pending case within three months. But the district administration didn’t pay any heed to the order of the apex body and feared to take any criminal proceedings because of the muscle power of the BJP leaders. Lastly the Collector Mrinalini Darswal inferred into the matter and wrote to the SP to take action and a case was registered on 21st October.
It was all done at the behest of the Local BJP MLA Jayanarayan Mishra and his corrupt practices.
” In the present context corruption is so much linked with power that our politicians have adopted a cynical attitude toward political morality. Maneuvering the anti-defection law for electoral politics with the help of both money and muscle power and other unfair means for the sake of power have affected the political morality of all the political parties and as such none of them can claim themselves to be faithful to nation in true sense. Manu may not be relevant to the present century, but as human nature more or less remains same and states either in monarchy or democracy is governed by the same human beings, he is still relevant. License to govern does not mean license to be corrupt. Mahatma Gandhi believed in the need for creating a social climate against corruption, which meant creation of an atmosphere in which the corrupt could not thrive. The need of the hour therefore, is to wipe off the tormenting system, which could be possible only after its thorough overhaul. For this our national leadership is expected to devise a political mechanism to create a social atmosphere by empowering of people. The ongoing war cry against corruption, which is nothing but a mad fight to replace one corrupt system by another is not going to transform the beleaguered nation to a sustainable social order, “as analyzed by R. Upadhyay.
From small time clerks to the high profile politicians, commissioners, police inspectors, traffic police, stock exchange brokers, military establishments, recruiters, sportsmen, judiciary and most of the government employees, corruption is seen and felt in every transaction from bottom of the chain till the top.
Greater solutions may include population control to improve the quality than the quantity; controlling population will bring up the quality of life and thus lesser competition and effective control of people and government processes. However feasible solutions are to impart moral principles in schools, and introduction of stringent audits, accountability, effective tracking of corrupt individuals through citizen cards or tax id's.
Computerization of processes, privatization of public sectors, eliminating the chain of corruption by not just punishing the first level but also higher levels involved.
Corruption is not limited to atheists, even the most corrupts are highly religious and have close family ties, in other words corruption has no boundaries. Religion and religious congregations can support and promote anti-corruption drives.
Corruption is not a luxury tax. Whoever described corruption is a luxury tax probably said it out of frustration; the religion of corruption, the corruption of politics, the dishonest souls and perversion of integrity is unpardonable.
SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF,
THESE DAYS,
ODISHA.
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