Video of PM’s directive toagencies to spare none goes viral

The South India Times
(Spcl Correspondent)
A video of the recent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directives to the Central agencies Chiefs asking them spare none has become a viral in the ocial media platforms.
On Saturday, showing unflinching support to anti-corruption agencies – Centra Vigilance Commission (CVC) and Ant-Corruption Bureau (ACB), besides others chiefs and officers, Prime Minister said they “need not be defensive” while tackling graft even when some people with “vested interests” keep hollering and maligning them.
“Yes, I don’t want any responsibe agency and their officers to let the guilty off-the hook, no matter how powerful the individual may be.
He said it is the responsibility of organisations like the CVC that no corrupt person gets “political or social refuge”.
“Every corrupt person should be held accountable by the society. It is important to build such an atmosphere. We are seeing that paeans are being sung for people already proven corrupt. People calling themselves honest do not feel the shame to go and get photographed with such corrupt people. This situation is not good for the Indian society,” he said.Without taking any names, PM Modi said people are glorifying corrupt people and advocating for awards to them. “Agencies like CVC working against corrupt and corruption need not be defensive. If you are working for the welfare of the country, there is no need to live in guilt.”“We do not have work on a political agenda, but it is our duty to eradicate problems faced by the common man of the country. People with vested interests will holler, they will try to strangulate the institutions and try to defame dedicated people sitting in these institutions,” he said.
In his 24-minute speech, the prime minister also asked the vigilance community to think about modernising their audits and inspections.“The will which the government is showing against corruption, the same will is necessary to be seen in all the departments. For a developed India, we have to devise such an administrative ecosystem which has zero tolerance on corruption,” he said.
Citing his own experience, PM Modi said during his long tenure as head of the government, he has gone through mud-slinging and abuses, but “people stand with you when you walk on the path of honesty”.
He said the legacy of corruption, exploitation and control over resources that the country got from long periods of colonialism continued post independence as well.He said eight years of his government has tried to change that by reforming the systems and introducing transparency.There were two important reasons which held back the country and promoted corruption in the country – scarcity (abhaav) of facility and pressure (dabaav) from the government, he said.He said for a very long time, this absence of amenities and opportunity was deliberately kept alive and a gap was allowed to widen leading to an unhealthy competition of a zero-sum race.
“…This race nurtured the ecosystem of corruption,” he said.
PM Modi rued that such grassroots corruption affected the poor and middle class which spent all its energy in getting these facilities and benefits.
The Prime Minister had also rejected outrightly of Opposition allegations of government misusing probe agencies, He also said the government does not interfere in the working of probe agencies.
In the past the Prime Minister on many occasions said;”Corruption in India is affecting the country like termites. Haven’t people raised their voices against such people from time to time? If I do not do anything, will the people forgive me? Wherever the government gets information (about corruption), should it not take steps? And after this, if billions and trillions of rupees are coming to the treasury of the country, then I should be praised,”
What does the video becoming viral in the social media? Can one presume that the people too wanted to support to ensure total independence to these agencies which were hitherto being accused of becoming the ‘voice of their political masters’? In this context none can forget none other than the apex Court calling he CBI a ‘caged parrot’.