Kumaraswamy on corruption and Gandhi

By R Shankar, India Syndicate, 11/04/2011 Gandhiji -- a corrupt Mahatma in today’s politics? Karnataka’s former chief minister says in today’s politics, Gandhiji would have been corrupt You may believe it or not, Mahatma Gandhi would have been a corrupt man today if he were to swim or waddle in India's murky politics. If he were to fight corruption, Gandhiji would have quit politics and probably taken to sanyas. Well, this is the view of former chief minister of Karnataka, H D Kumaraswamy, the president of Janata Dal (Secular) and the son of humble farmer turned once-upon-a-time prime minister H D Deve Gowda - a man who began his political journey riding a motorcycle as a contractor in dust-filled Hassan and now owns large tracts of land in and around posh areas of Bangalore. Addressing newspersons in Hubli (north Karnataka), Kumaraswamy said there cannot be politics without corruption. "In the present political scenario, no one can organise a political party, rally or win elections without being in corruption. There could be nothing more far from the truth to say that you can organise and run a political party from the money you get from home. If anybody speaks about non-corrupt system, it will not be the truth". View All K.Venugopal #1 11 April 2011 17:02:46 For once, I am in agreement with Kumaraswamy. The entire political system is rotten. Passing of yet another bill on corruption would not do much - the corrupt would always find a way out because there would always be other corrupt people who would bail them out. The only way corruption would end is when we refuse to have any service the corrupt would want to provide. Only when we do not want the corrupt person's service would we be free enough to pursue corruption. Therefore there must be a campaign urging people not to have too many wants. The market for corruption would then dry up. The inherently corrupt can then be easily rounded up. http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5113263&pgnew=true&_p=2d98b1f9-a309-4aa0-a07f-d78e0237c9c8&_nwpt=1#uc2Lst2d98b1f9-a309-4aa0-a07f-d78e0237c9c8