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Saturday, December 17, 2011

What happens when a chain reaction goes out of control?Catastrophic explosion of course. Yes Explosion as in an Atomic device

Corruption in the Government system in India has become a self sustaining chain reaction. Power is breeding money which is helping the corrupt get more powerful. The net outcome is the state of Nirvana for the government class and their cronies in business.

There was a Chief minister of a small North Indian State who had set a target of Rupees 3 crore collection every day from the state bureaucracy. This was about 10 year back. Now the figures would have multiplied several times over.

To give the Chief Minister 3 crores every day, the system would be extorting scores of times more if not hundreds of times more. We can only imagine what would be happening at the national level.

The Government is known to be pathetically inefficient in its public service work. This is true all over the world. Where India is different is that the government is very efficient in corruption collection targets.

Formally corruption extortion is illegal and is a crime like any other heinous crime. But the state runs the extortion machinery with great effectiveness while maintaining plausible deniability all the time.

The operation looks eerily similar to the methodology adopted by Pakistan's ISI while mounting terrorist operations in India and Afghanistan.

The strategic target setting and ideological basis is provided by the central authority. The infrastructure is made available seemlessly and skills are transferred continuously. The operational details like time of strike are left to the local operatives.

The Indian state's corruption machinery works much like the Pakistan ISI's terror machine. Both feign ignorance of the activity and even publicly condemn it.

However the Indian state has put in place a self sustaining chain reaction corruption machine which the ISI has not been able to accomplish with terror.

The state's corruption machine hums along like a Nuclear reactor gone critical. It efficiently produces all the outcomes for which it has been designed.

However without the moderator cadmium rods in the form of an anti corruption machinery like the Lokpal, the chain reaction will soon go out of control and an explosion is very much on the cards which obviously is not acceptable least of all to the beneficiaries.

It is not at all surprising that with great prescience the Congress party's manifesto promised a Lopkpal. The NAC under Sonia and the Congress henchmen and women in the NCPRI who designed the cadmium rods of the sarkari Lokpal know exactly what they are doing. Their mandate is to keep the corruption reactor from exploding. So their Lokpal has just the right potency.

The current debate is about the strength of the cadmium rods. The government class would like the corruption reactor to work continuously for ever and hence is fighting for an optimum Lokpal who just keeps the reactor from exploding.

The Anna Team wants the cadmium rods to be loaded fully so that the corruption reactor can be shut down within a predictable time frame. Hopefully after the reactor is shut down, it can be carefully dismantled at leisure...there will be a lot of toxic aftereffects which will need to be handled by experts. Maybe we can import proven expertise from China and Saudi Arabia for summary decisions to deal with the delicate subject of toxicity.

The government class has done its home work well. It has united the political class including most of the opposition from the left and the right, most of the media, the bureaucracy and even the judiciary. Every one is singing the same tune. Anna's Jan Lokpal goes too far. Some moderation is called for.

They are right. To keep the corruption reactor humming and avoiding an explosion a moderate Lokpal is absolutely essential. It is in nobody's interest to not have a moderate Lokpal....nobody wants an explosion. These people who wish to shut down the corruption reactor are fascists and should be shunned.

Pitted against such overwhelming intellect, poor Anna has no chance. His protests will soon hit the law of diminishing returns. Fewer and fewer people will come out on the street with each successive edition of fasts and strikes. The public will get fatigued and one day the government system will pounce. It will declare Anna a persona non grata in Delhi and Mumbai and confine him to his Ralegan Siddhi.

The contours of the fatigue are already visible. Ace operators of the corruption reactors swept the municipal polls in Maharashtra. It did not help that the opposition was the Shiv Sena which questioned the very need for any additional cadmium rods implying that the original reactor design had enough safety provisions built in. The voters must have torn some of their hair off in puzzlement.

Back in Delhi, there is general consensus over the vendors of the cadmium rods. The SP, BSP, RJD insist that the vendors must be from the OBC, SC, ST categories too. This will of course ensure that the cadmium does not accidently shut down the reactor.

There is also consensus that the Prime Minister will not touch the cadmium rods. Who knows in a fit of integrity the poor man may actually shut down the reactor. Better to keep him away from the controls. In any case it is well known that he does nor really run the reactor. He is just a by stander whose name is printed on the nameplate of the reactor.

There is also a demand that the rector be split into two. Like the visible iceberg over the water, the visible part of the reactor will have some additional cadmium rods since much of the recent public outcry was over the functioning of this part. It is understood that the invisible part of the reactor which is below the water line in any case is very well designed and there is no danger of any explosion there. So no additional cadmium is required for that part of the reactor.

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