Mr. Modi Should Restrain Mr. Swamy

Mr. Subramanium Swamy has alleged that the former IMF chief economist who is presently Governr of RBI , Mr Raghuram Rajan had planted "a time bomb" in the Indian financial system in the year 2013 that will explode in December 2016.

On May 26, Swamy had levelled six allegations against Rajan, Mr. Swamy has alleged that Rajan is sending confidential and sensitive financial information around the world, and hence Swamyhas asked the Prime Minister to sack him immediately.

Prior to that, Swamy had claimed that Rajan was "mentally not fully Indian" and alleged that he has "wilfully" wrecked the economy.

I do not at all endorse the style of Mr. Subramanium  Swamy criticisng and indirectly abusing Mr. Raghuram Rajan Governor RBI in public domain. After all , Mr Rajan holds a Costitutional , prestigious, powerful  and the most important post of the country so far as economics of the country and its management is concerned.

I am of strong opinion that none of politicians  should be allowed to criticise any public servant . Because officers working in any department of public sector undertaking has to discharge his duties without any fear of repercussion. And if every political leaders start targeting government officials as per their sweet will, it will create chaos in the administration and ultimately result in adverse impact on governance. Officers in such environment think it wiser and safer to please politicians than to discharge their duty honestly and sincerely.

Even small village level political leader , either of ruling or that of opposition parties tries his best  always to blackmail government servants or build  unwarranted and illegal  pressure on government servants  for allowing illegal favour to them  and for   serving   self interests of local politicians ,state level political masters or central leaders or their kith and kins or their friends and relatives   violating all existing laws and sacrificing the interest of the state and in total disregard to rules of morality.

This is one of the key reasons, why government officers spend crores of rupees from government treasury to extend red carpet welcome to ministers in particular and  politicians in general and also in distributing costly gifts to their political masters. In turn they earn crores of rupees from contractors, vendors and business houses and even from government servants in form of bribe for allowing illegal discounts and rebates and for allowing public servants to earn bribe in lieu of undue favour .

 Rather I would like to say that use of power of transferring an officer by politicians or in  recommending promotion or rejection of a government servant in annual processes carried out for promotions of public servants , has created , irrigated and promoted a culture of flattery and bribery in almost all offices including PSU banks. This evil culture is prevalent in all public sector banks and all PSUs. Workers find more interest in serving their bosses than in serving their organisation or their country. This evil culture has damaged the work culture in police departments and even in defence services.

AS soon as a new Chief Minister joins his duty in a state , he or she prepares a chain of transfers to accomodate officers and staff as per his  or her choice and to suit his or her political strategy. As a result of this dirty culture followed by almost all  political masters, officers instead of focussing on their work , have started focussing on how to please their political masters and how to oblige ministers and powerful persons so that evil acts of such corrupt officers are not put in question or even if questions are raised by media men or some agencies  , they may get full protection and acquitted from all charges of corruption and irregularity taken place in discharging their duties.. 

I have no doubt in saying that government officers are using political powers in general to brighten their career and to grow in their personal power and  wealth and during this course of ugly action , they totally sacrifice the interest of the organisation they serve and the government under which they work. This evil culture is mainly responsible for large scale corruption prevalent in govrnment departments, banks and insurance companies or in all pUblic sector enterprises. This evil culture has created a vicous cycle of flattery and bribery in which officers and politicians play mutual blame game but never own their own responsibility, frauds and failures.

I hereby make it clear that there may be valid points in what Mr. Subramanium Swamy says about Mr. Raghu Ram Rajan , Governor RBI. There may be merit in what Mr. Swamy has been alleging against Mr. Rajan. His all points must be verified and investigated by appropriate authorities. But there is well established procedure to place such information seeking action against accused officer or any government staff . There is provision for  giving sufficient opportunity to every accused to explain in his or her defense.

Mr. Swamy therefore is not justified in putting blame on Mr. Rajan in public domain and has got no right to malign image of a dignified and reputed person like Mr. Rajan . If Rajan is guilty of playing a foul game to cause loss to the country , he must be punished by following lawful procedure but he should in no case be humiliated in the manner in which Mr. Swamy is doing against Mr. Rajan.

If Mr. Swamy is not restrained from his unlawful action , other politicians will also be motivated to follow similar type of character assassination at all levels to mlaign image of any government servants whoever denies  to serve the ill-motivated politicians as per their whims and caprices. 

I know very well through my four decade long services , how even low level political worker exerts pressure on staff each banks, government offices and PSUs to ensure that his self interest is served without any hindrances and no one dares challenge unlawful demand of such corrupt political worker because everyone knows that they will not get protection from their superiors even if they are cent percent right in their approach.

And the most painful is that if such officer complains to any higher office or a police station or any regulator against wrong demands of such politicians , none of seniors or police officers will dare to come to the rescue and none of them will ever try to safeguard such officer from torture of corrupt politicians . 

This is why government officers has made a habit of blidly following the instruction of politicians even though such instructions are many times unlawful and damaging to the interest of the country. Even the policy of whistle blower has not convinced honest workers and also failed to create deterrent affect on  evil workers and politicians who have been engaged in  committing crime one after the other.

I therefore once again make an appeal to the government , specially to Mr. Narendra modi to restrain persons like Swamy in tarnishing the image of any officer. Please do not allow the work culture to move from bad to worse . People of India have great expectation from Mr. Modi and they are fully confident and convinced  that Mr Modi for the sake of good governance will not allow political exploitation of government staff in any manner. Otherwise , public servants will like to continue to act and  remain as slave of these politicians and country will continue to suffer.