Articles' Section Politicians and Growing Corruption in the Political Theatre of the World, One Problem Has Emerged
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Articles' Section Politicians and growing corruption In the political theatre of the world, one problem has emerged. It is the strong will of politicians to become economically strong by any cost. This leads to the creation of an environment that is not good for democracy and good governance. If corruption controlling is not taken into consideration, democracy will turn into an autocracy which won’t last for a long time. Responsible people of many countries have become victims of corruption because of their will to be affluent. Therefore, democracy and corruption can’t remain together. Both scholars from developed and poor nations want to become economically wealthy without any labour and delay. This is a new problem of the modern world. It has severely affected almost every political community in the world and has been able to draw the attention of all politicians towards it. All political leaders are awared of this problem. Why do they remain silent about it even after they have been exposed to it? It is because they want to be benefited from it. Just like the economically developed countries become the center of attraction, wealthy leaders often get public attention. Therefore, even good and moral leaders are compelled to become corrupted and they are losing their reputation in a short time. Especially, in the developing countries, where uneducated and poor people reside, are often found to be troubled by this problem. Those countries need to be developed and it is necessary for them to fulfill their basic needs to survive. In this situation, money to invest in the developmental programmes can be collected either through the internal or external sources. The collected money may either be an assistant or a loan. The distortion created in the mind of people involved in the collection of that money is the birth of corruption. Considering other conditions, corruption has been incepted because of the ill intentions of those that are responsible of assistance and loans of donor countries. It affects those groups who have, or would like to have, the responsibility to run poor countries. Even if those have good intention in the beginning, they immediately become a victim of the misty environment, adjust in it and ultimately become an opportunist. In this way, leaders who are in the power of developing countries are proved to be corrupted leaders. To be in power means to serve people and to achieve good results. No one becomes respected only after attaining power. One reaches to that status after that only if he is able to serve the nation and its people without refraining from morality and honesty. If we can’t perform well and if there is no environment to achieve good results, it is better not to stick to power and refrain from it. A person who is dedicated to politics should be free from the illusion that a nation and its people can be served only by achieving power. This problem therefore affects those people really fast that are morally weak and covetous of power. One of the reasons behind the persistence of corruption is the malice of the world established by the financial institutions and their staffs. In addition, authorities of the poor nations have become corrupted due to the diplomatic conspiracy of authorities of the developed countries and their greedy behaviour regarding with personal benefits. Many organizations have nowadays concerned about the rampant corruption in the different bodies of poor nations. However, they haven’t been able to find any concrete solution because they have a lack of knowledge of its origin. It is a new problem and its nature has been developed in the different ways in different countries. It is very difficult to find solution soon as corruption is related to the attitude rather than the physical body of human being. In the developing countries, corruption controlling has to be the highest priority if we want to maintain democracy and its prosperity. Therefore, every single country in the world should formulate the working policy to control corruption and implement it if they want to develop their nations and make democracy long-lasting. We should try our best to implement the working policy using any means. Political instability persists in a country if the responsible politicians don’t pay attention to this problem. Democracy cannot live in the political instability and as a result, an environment may be gradually created for autocracy. Most of the countries in Africa have encouraged permanent or temporary autocracy because of this conditions which have been deeply rooted. Similarly, developing countries of Asia such as Cambodia, Bangladesh or Pakistan are some of the newer examples. It is mandatory for people involved in the power to become transparent, honest and moral. If they are dishonest, opportunist and immoral, who is able to uplift the living standard of people and who leads the nation to the path of development? Only a few politicians of this world have been moral and honest. Most of the politicians of developing countries are deceiving people and are greedy. It is also a weakness of the political party. The trend to become involved in the politics when one becomes unemployed is another problem of the poor countries. In reality, vagabonds, who don’t contribute anything to the prosperity of the nation and don’t work hard for their subsistence, are the enmities of human development. Therefore, if they are involved in the politics, they make democracy a means for exploitation. Not only this, these vagabonds often take advantage from elections. It is not clear whether leaders are unaware of this fact or if they have been losing their morality and honesty falling for the trap of the vagabonds. Today, almost every country is democratic. Politicians are not aware of the fact that people of poor nations are uneducated. They think only of people around them and their vision doesn’t get further than that. In the today’s modern age, considering with the communication, we think to the world as a small village. Therefore, it isn’t good to have a majority of outdated leaders that have a traditional thinking. It is nonsense to hope for good governance if politicians think traditionally. Extracted from Theoretical Campaign against the corruption Corruption is …. "I don’t say that whether there is no corruption in any projects that the government runs. I am not in a position to show the real figure of corruption i.e. the exact quantity but according to the reports, out of the total budget allocated for a project, less than 30% is spent; 70% is misappropriated. I accept this reality." This is a statement of a responsible authority of the government, Chakra Prasad Bastola. This statement was broadcasted from …Bahas Program of Nepal Television on Thursday. In this program, minister Bastola had presented himself as if he wasn’t a responsible authority of the government; he rather was an anti-graft leader and the foolish Nepali citizen knowingly or unknowingly listened to it. Three months back, when Girija Prasad Koiral took his fourth prime-ministerial position, he said: "I have come up with the aim to maintain an active administration to end terrorism that stood as an enemy of the nation, to control corruption and to create a system of good governance." When authorities of the government become aware of corruption, they shouldn’t betray to the people in any context. If seventy percent of the budget allocated for a project is misappropriated and the government knows about that, then this should be taken as a state- terror act in the economic sector. "I am searching for the corrupters." This is a statement of the prime-minister Girija Prasad Koirala. In other words, regarding with his source of information, there are no corrupted people. Corruption is a lost item that has to be looked for. He not only mentioned his understanding of corruption but also informed people in the beginning of his visit to the district to raise public awareness against corruption. Can people believe these statements given by the government? Are they characters of the drama or responsible people to serve people? It is very difficult to answer these questions. The hidden facts have to a great extent been published because of questions raised by Indra Lohani, the presenter of a program in Nepal Television to raise public awareness. Minister Bastola has not easily said that seventy percent of the money is misappropriated. This is a statement that should not be said by a person that is in the government. The prime-minister should clarify that there is no corruption in the governmental projects. It is not ethic to stick to the power after knowing that seventy percent of the allocated budget has been misappropriated. However, there is no medicine for immoral and shameless people. All governments which were formed with the slogan to control corruption have themselves stuck to corruption and openly robbed the state fund. To be clearer, people have lost the faith in the present political leaders and their cadres. When bribes used to be matter earlier, it is robbery today. In this context, nobody believes that the government does something for the development and public welfare of this country. There are two types of enemies that are against nations and its people: covert (those who covertly go against people) and overt enemies (those who overtly go against people). They are very difficult to be identified. Today’s armed rebels may become very good rulers and vice versa. While one group is creating social and political terror from the jungle in the name of revolt, another one is creating economic terror seizing power.