The fight against corruption launched by veteran social worker Anna Hazare has been reduced to a farce with every Tom, Dick and Harry coming forward with rallies and dharnas in the name of supporting Hazare and for introduction of Jan Lok Pal Bill in Parliament.
In fact, there were reports from New Delhi that certain high profile personalities and leaders came to Ram Leela Maidan in a drunken state to extend support to Hazare.
The poor old man had to make an appeal to the people not to come to the rally in a drunken condition.
Now, even film stars have started talking against corruption in the society.
On Tuesday, Tamil film industry conducted a rally in support of Anna Hazare and his fight against corruption.
A couple of days ago, the Telugu film industry too took out a rally and organized deeksha to express its total solidarity with Hazare.
One wonders whether these film stars have any moral ground to talk about corruption.
The top actors collect their remuneration in lakhs and crores, but none of them takes the amount in white – 90 per cent of it is given in black. And they don’t pay income tax even for the small amount they take in white.
Several of them have put in their money in various commercial and business activities, but nothing is shown properly in the account books. Take for example Movie Artistes Association president Murali Mohan, who has a large network of real estate ventures in and around Hyderabad in the name of Jayabheri Estates. He had once faced a case under Section 420 of IPC (cheating) in Madhapur police station in Hyderabad for irregularities in taking up a real estate venture.
Similarly, there were corruption charges against Babu Mohan, when he was a minister in Chandrababu Naidu cabinet. Such people’s participation in the anti-corruption rally is really shameful. Don’t you agree with that?
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