Revelation of series of scandals and scams (घोटाले – Ghotale) over the last two years has left people in surprise (आश्चर्य – Aashchary) and disbelief (अविश्वास – Avishvaas). Several ministers of ruling party were found to be indulging in these scams and scandals at center and state government level. The total loss has been estimated to be worth several hundred billions dollars.

Corruption (भ्रष्टाचार – Bhrastaachar) is a huge problem in India and this menace (संकट – Sankat) has spread in the state system from top political (राजनीतिक – Rajnitik) brass to lowest ranks. Not only has it adversely affected the national economic growth (विकास – Vikas), but also the common man who has to deal with such system on day to day basis. In such corrupt regime (शासन – Shaasan), only people of power (प्रभाव – Prabhaav) and riches (धन – Dhan) seem to find their way, whereas the poor find it a harsh reality.

 Recent revelations of mass corruptions and steaming anguish of several decades have only added oil in the fire. People realized that they have lost many opportunities in education, employment, health and what not, if there had been no corruption of such magnitude (परिमाण – Parimaan). Corruption has even found its way into the defense procurement deals, thus jeopardizing the security (सुरक्षा – Suraksha) of people and risking lives of soldiers, an utter respect to the whole nation.  Several people decided to stand against (विरुद्ध – Virudh) such practice and decided to free India and its people from the demon of corruption.

 Most notably people include Anna Hazare, a veteran and social activist who has a huge public following. He stirred a national wide protest (विरोध – Virodh) in his support by going for an indefinite hunger-strike (भूखहड़ताल – Bhook hadtal) till the Indian government form an ombudsman (लोकपाल – Lokpal) for India in order to check the corrupt practices at public places. Interesting thing is, the non-violent practice of going to indefinite hunger strike is what Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, did to protest the oppressive practice of British in pre-independence era. He reminded people, a reincarnated form (अवतार – Avtaar) of Mahatma Gandhi who is protesting against the Indian government who is accused of mass scale corruption. People found a credible leader (नेता – Neta) to whom they could follow just like they did to Mahatma Gandhi (महात्मा गांधी) and people joined in some of the biggest national wide protests seen after independence. Ruling party promised him that they will introduce the ombudsman and requested him to break his hunger strike of a week. Unfortunately, the government (सरकार – Sarkar) did not keep the promise until recently when he has gone to a second hunger strike again after 2 years. During these 2 years, there were many other protest and formation of national party by a disciple of Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, under whom the party contested for state election (चुनाव – Chunav) for national capital of India, Delhi and defeated the ruling party in his debut election. The defeat (पराजय – Parajay) of ruling party had shown the wide-spread anger (ग़ुस्सा – Gussa) of people which forced the government party to make the ombudsman a reality (वास्तविकता – Vaastavikata). Any further delay would have caused more anger over the government and their support (समर्थन – Samarthan) for corruption, which could have resulted defeat in upcoming national elections as people would have voted for other national party who promised to bring transparency to the governance.