Accessibility to a Public Person

In a democracy, accessibility to a public person is very important. There just can’t be a public person whom a common man can’t approach ever. This accessibility has to be one-on-one, not through some Twitter, Facebook or Electronic Media. In fact, the secretary to the public person should give e-appointments to common men for personal audience to the public person, and no appointment should be beyond 3 months. The courts should interfere if no appointment is given or appointment beyond 3 months is given — then the common man may just go and speak rubbish in his appointment; it doesn’t matter; he should get his five minutes each year to meet and talk to the public person of his choice. If a public person is found spending more time in his meetings with Ambanis, Tatas, Bacchans, Devgans, and Khans, instead of common men, he should be immediately thrown out of business. There should be a clear account of the time spent by the public person. No more than 12 hrs in a day should be his private time, and, for the rest 12 hrs, each and every single minute should be logged in and accounted for. The time spent on various activities should then be audited at the end of the year by the CAG. The time spent in media events should be ascertained for their value to the public. The presence of public persons in private media events like awards functions, book launch events, debates, discussions, etc., should be adjudged on the basis of neutrality of these events and also on the basis of benefits accruing to the media company in its brand promotion through linkages to the public person concerned. The presence of public persons in purely private events like marriages, mundans, religious functions, dinner parties, etc., should be completely depreciated, and any time spent in these should be public person’s private time only. Any public person found spending extraordinary public time with lobbyists should be charged with corruption under the PCA act, for time is money and time spent with lobbyists tantamount to monetary favors to the lobbyists. These politicians have made enough fool of people; now they need to be taken to task.

About the Author

Ankur Mutreja
Ankur Mutreja is an advocate-cum-writer, and his blogs are amongst his modes of expression. He has also authored number of books, which can be downloaded from the links on the top menu.

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