Onward to a More Determined Assault on the Citadels of Corruption and Corporate Plunder
No more can we allow the rich and powerful to indulge in scams without fear of punishment!
No longer can we allow corruption to corrode our democracy and trample on our rights!
No more can we allow India’s rulers, riding roughshod over people’s own rights and interests, to patronise the plunder of our country’s resources!
No more can we allow corrupt corporate houses to subvert democracy, violate the laws of the land, and rob the people of land, forests, water, minerals and seeds!
No longer can we allow our elected representatives and Governments to act as agents for corrupt corporate and imperialist forces!
No more will we forgive our rulers (be it the ruling Congress or Opposition BJP) for kneeling down to US imperialism – while lying to the Indian people and betraying people’s interests! We demand a review of the Nuke Deal which was sealed through corrupt means and which benefits the global nuclear corporations at the cost of exposing Indians to the risk of a Fukushima on Indian soil!
The recent movement for an effective anti-corruption Lok Pal Bill has successfully forced the government to agree on principle to the drafting of the bill. But the present government, which stands in the dock as the most corrupt government in Indian history, cannot really be trusted on the issue of drafting and enacting an effective, transparent and democratic anti-corruption legislation. There are already indications galore that the corporate biggies and the corrupt corporate-driven UPA regime are bent upon derailing the very process of drafting the bill.
We must therefore remain ever alert and active and make sure that the government is not allowed to backtrack and delay and dilute the process. But more importantly, let’s consolidate this initial victory of people’s determination and struggle, and go on to strike at the very root of corruption!
Let’s take the anti-corruption movement onwards for an end to the regime of privatisation of public and natural resources – a regime which provides fertile soil for corruption to take root and thrive! Let’s resist the move to further open up our country’s education and health for corporate profiteering, plunder and corruption!
Let’s demand an end to the daily drain of black money and the return of this illegal plunder stashed in foreign banks! Let’s force our Governments to stop gifting the super- rich and super-corrupt corporates with crores of public money – and instead demand that this money be spent on people’s welfare, education and health!
Let’s storm the citadels of corruption and corporate plunder, and resolve to create a corruption-free India, in which people, not profit, decide policies and priorities!