Corruption has spread to all sectors of society: Vice Prez

Last Updated: Friday, October 22, 2010, 17:39

Tags: Corruption, spread, sectors, society, Hamid Ansari

Bhubaneswar: Corruption has spread to all sectors of the society, including the political system, infecting it, Vice-president M Hamid Ansari said and called upon youths to fight it.

"Corruption is a vice, a very old social disease infecting our system ... The political system as a whole is infected by it," Ansari told students at an interactive programme organised by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, a deemed university, here.

Just as the need to study individual patients and then administer medicines to cure their diseases, so too individual cases of corruption needed to be investigated in order to get its roots to weed it out.

"Something has gone very wrong in our value system," he said adding people should not remain silent over the issue.

The role of the students in fighting corruption begins from their school days itself, he said.

Replying to a question on the rise in issues relating to racism, Ansari said it was a not ''sudden increase''. ''Racist remarks are reflective of one's mind. It surfaces in moments.''

Mahatma Gandhi had set an example by fighting it and so did Nelson Mandela.

The youths are the country's future and students should prepare themselves to face the world with courage.

As citizens of the country, they have the duty to participate in different spheres of social life, including politics, he added.

PTI

First Published: Friday, October 22, 2010, 17:39

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Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay - Howrah.
Most of the communities in India (such as Bengali), are succumbed in `Culture of Poverty`(a theory introduced by an American anthropologist Oscar Lewis), irrespective of class or economic strata, lives in pavement or apartment. Nobody is at all ashamed of the deep-rooted corruption, decaying general quality of life, worst Politico-administrative system, weak mother language, continuous absorption of common space (mental as well as physical, both). We are becoming fathers & mothers only by self-procreation, mindlessly & blindfold. Simply depriving their(the children) fundamental rights of a decent, caring society, fearless & dignified living. Do not ever look for any other positive alternative behaviour (values) to perform human way of parenthood, i.e. deliberately co-parenting of those children those are born out of ignorance, real poverty. All of us are being driven only by the very animal instinct. If the Bengali people ever be able to bring that genuine freedom (from vicious cycle of `poverty`) in their own life/attitude, involve themselves in `Production of Space’(Henri Lefebvre), at least initiate a movement by heart, decent & dedicated Politics will definitely come up.
- Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, 16/4, Girish Banerjee Lane, Howrah-711101, India.