Politics cannot be cleansed of corruption: Prabhat Jha

Politics cannot be cleansed of corruption: Prabhat Jha

Bhopal: The new Madhya Pradesh BJP president, Prabhat Jha said here today that politics cannot be cleansed of corruption unless it acquired simplicity.
"Rich politicians who stay in palatial houses can talk of removing poverty but they will never be able to do so,".
He also said that a government should not be thought of as a means of acquiring money but rather as a system for serving the people especially the poor.
The new state BJP president said that in his view, putting up hoardings, featuring political leaders was nothing but a sheer waste of money.
"Similarly using many garlands for politicians at functions was also wasting money in a big way. Instead of garlanding politicians, people would be better off offering flowers at temples," he said.
The new Madhya Pradesh BJP president said that his party workers should never be worried about the things that the Congress had done in the past.
"It is important that BJP workers managed to forge a new identity for the party that was acceptable to the people at large.
The Madhya Pradesh BJP president said he understood that when people turn up to felicitate him these days, they were not felicitating Prabhat Jha but the post he holds now.
"There was nothing wrong with this as the post was permanent and the people who hold it come and go," Prabhat said.
He said that the first test for him as the Madhya Pradesh BJP president would be the June 23 civic elections in Ujjain.
The Madhya Pradesh BJP president said that there was no need for politicians to flaunt the money at their disposal.
"During the freedom struggle Mahatma Gandhi may have used the money given by people like Jamnadas Bajaj and G D Birla but he never used them as such," Prabhat explained.
These days, things have become so bad that when a religious function is organised, people come on their own but when a government function is held, people have to be ferried to it, he added.