October 03, 2024 • Makkal Adhikaram
Grama Sabha meetings are being held all over Tamil Nadu on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti. In which of these villages the Grama Sabha was held? How many people should attend the Gram Sabha? If they refuse, what action has the district administration taken against the leaders as per the law? Nothing at all. What does it mean to people?
There are not even 10 people in Kadambathur. Did it happen in Vidayur? Didn’t happen? I don’t even know. In many such villages, this Gram Sabha meeting has its benefits to the people? Its facts? Without anything, in the newspaper, on TV, on the Internet, news comes, educated, people who know politics, all this is the work of the Tamil Nadu government to run it for an advertisement. The young people who are coming now will take care of it.
Even the village administrative office does not give transparent accounts. For the first time in the news of people’s power, these villages have internet facilities and what is happening in the village? It is a magazine that has been struggling since the beginning to publish the accounts of the village office to the villagers there. Something came about by an existing regime. Today, the DMK government is using the internet only to collect taxes.
Accounts are not properly audited. All these accounts are on paper. Will it be real? No auditor goes and looks at it. When asked about this by an officer who can do the AG audit, he said, “We will look at the paper. What’s really going on there? We don’t even know that. This auditor’s report is deceiving the villagers by writing the accounts on the paper, correcting it and signing that everything is fine.
Are the officials who can audit it eligible? I doubt it. How will they audit these accounts in this situation? Instead, abolish this Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat. If not, why do you need to do an audit of that corrupt account? Why should the authorities take a penalty for that? Why should there be a BTO office? Why should there be a district panchayat bidi? Why should a District Collector be an inspector for this?
Even if people complain about these fake accounts and corrupt accounts, no action is taken. Most of the panchayat presidents are prosecuted only if they go to court, file a case there and the case is in the trial court. Why take a penalty salary, look at the accounts of corruption and sign that everything is fine?
For this, a panchayat president and another person has a board saying that he is a president like the president. In their cars, when you think of all this, the Panchayati Raj Act is an unnecessary law for the country. If this is necessary, it would be futile to hold panchayat elections without changing the law to weed out all these scams.
Why loot village public property? Together with the officials, is this the panchayat election? Social activists and social welfare journalists allege that it is futile for the central government to hold panchayat elections across the country without changing it. Action can only be taken by the central government. Strict anti-corruption laws should be brought in the Panchayati Raj Act.
Moreover, the government itself is running a business of auctioning the villagers through this election and making money for them. Those who understand this truth will understand.
