‘Corruption in immediately’s administration is well-known’, says former SG Justice Santosh Hegde

By PTI

BENGALURU: Politics has grow to be a occupation of energy and cash, and ceased to be a service, former Solicitor General of India Justice N Santosh Hegde rued on the nation’s independence day.

Speaking to PTI right here, the retired Judge of the Supreme Court additionally stated there ought to be an all-out effort to inculcate two social values — contentment and humanism — in order that there might be solidarity and peace in society.

Before independence many within the nation fought in opposition to overseas rule and for independence with none financial achieve; it was due to their love for the nation, it was a sacrifice, he recalled.

After independence, individuals joined politics as a service to the nation and for a couple of a long time elected representatives had no wage. Only their precise bills had been paid, the previous Karnataka Lokayukta identified.

The function of an elected consultant was solely to attend the proceedings of their elected our bodies just like the Parliament or State Assemblies. The elected our bodies’ proceedings had been for a interval of 100 days in a 12 months and their function was to make legal guidelines and insurance policies.

There was no instructional qualification required to grow to be an elected consultant they usually had no function in administration. Hence, they needed to discover different authentic sources for his or her survival. But within the final 50 years, the entire construction of administration has modified.

The Executive, who beneath the Constitution had been entrusted with the administration have been made subservient to the elected representatives. Consequently immediately, in actuality, the elected representatives have grow to be the masters of administration, which immediately entrusts a lot energy on them, he famous.

As the previous saying goes “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has grow to be the slogan of the day, Justice Hegde stated. “Corruption in today’s administration is well known. Politics has ceased to be a service, it has become a profession of power and money”, he stated.

“The last government in Karnataka was accused by the opposition as 40 per cent government which is generally accepted. Consequently, today politics is no more a service; it has become a profession.”

In actuality, immediately’s elected representatives should not public servants; they’re public masters. Privileges they’ve that are self conferred make them superior to different residents. The solely time they grow to be equal to different residents is on the eve of elections, he stated.

“These are a few of the reasons which make me feel that the foundation of present-day politics should change if democracy should still have the definition ‘Government of the people, by the people and for the people’,” Justice Hegde stated.

He, nevertheless, additionally stated that since attaining Independence, the nation has progressed considerably on nearly all fronts although rural improvement has not been the identical as city improvement. As a outcome, there was extra rural migration.

“The rural development is dependent on agriculture; hence sufficient monetary development from agriculture should be focused, apart from infrastructural development of the rural areas”, the previous Advocate General of Karnataka stated.

“Our country’s international status in the fields of Economics, Medical, and Space Science is appreciated globally,” he added.

BENGALURU: Politics has grow to be a occupation of energy and cash, and ceased to be a service, former Solicitor General of India Justice N Santosh Hegde rued on the nation’s independence day.

Speaking to PTI right here, the retired Judge of the Supreme Court additionally stated there ought to be an all-out effort to inculcate two social values — contentment and humanism — in order that there might be solidarity and peace in society.

Before independence many within the nation fought in opposition to overseas rule and for independence with none financial achieve; it was due to their love for the nation, it was a sacrifice, he recalled.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

After independence, individuals joined politics as a service to the nation and for a couple of a long time elected representatives had no wage. Only their precise bills had been paid, the previous Karnataka Lokayukta identified.

The function of an elected consultant was solely to attend the proceedings of their elected our bodies just like the Parliament or State Assemblies. The elected our bodies’ proceedings had been for a interval of 100 days in a 12 months and their function was to make legal guidelines and insurance policies.

There was no instructional qualification required to grow to be an elected consultant they usually had no function in administration. Hence, they needed to discover different authentic sources for his or her survival. But within the final 50 years, the entire construction of administration has modified.

The Executive, who beneath the Constitution had been entrusted with the administration have been made subservient to the elected representatives. Consequently immediately, in actuality, the elected representatives have grow to be the masters of administration, which immediately entrusts a lot energy on them, he famous.

As the previous saying goes “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has grow to be the slogan of the day, Justice Hegde stated. “Corruption in today’s administration is well known. Politics has ceased to be a service, it has become a profession of power and money”, he stated.

“The last government in Karnataka was accused by the opposition as 40 per cent government which is generally accepted. Consequently, today politics is no more a service; it has become a profession.”

In actuality, immediately’s elected representatives should not public servants; they’re public masters. Privileges they’ve that are self conferred make them superior to different residents. The solely time they grow to be equal to different residents is on the eve of elections, he stated.

“These are a few of the reasons which make me feel that the foundation of present-day politics should change if democracy should still have the definition ‘Government of the people, by the people and for the people’,” Justice Hegde stated.

He, nevertheless, additionally stated that since attaining Independence, the nation has progressed considerably on nearly all fronts although rural improvement has not been the identical as city improvement. As a outcome, there was extra rural migration.

“The rural development is dependent on agriculture; hence sufficient monetary development from agriculture should be focused, apart from infrastructural development of the rural areas”, the previous Advocate General of Karnataka stated.

“Our country’s international status in the fields of Economics, Medical, and Space Science is appreciated globally,” he added.