Corruption is not a post independence phenomena

India was always a corrupt country, it was there before independence, so don't feel ashamed that our forefathers fought for independence and we are wasting it.

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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/06/03/stories/2002060300311000.htm

In "Mahatma Gandhi - the Last Phase", Pyarelal, the Mahatma's secretary, says Gandhiji was deeply worried over the growing corruption and scramble for loaves in the Congress, discord and the personal rivalries among members of the party high command. He was sad that there were pocket boroughs, bogus membership, the deadweight of inert majorities and the electioneering malpractice and hypocrisy of self-seekers. Everybody was anxious to get onto the Congress bandwagon now that it was in power. The more Gandhiji saw of this, the more his conviction deepened that there was no other way of purging the Congress organisation of corruption except for the party to go out of power politics.

Gandhiji followed upon his concerns at the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in November 1947. He mooted the idea that the political goal of the Congress having been achieved with the attainment of Independence, it ought voluntarily to liquidate itself. He argued that the dissolution of the Congress as a party would release the energy of all the progressive and patriotic elements in the country and harness it to the great task of nation-building. After the AICC meeting, he repeated his advice: "I am convinced that no patch-work treatment can save the Congress. It will only prolong the agony. The best thing for the Congress would be to dissolve itself before the rot sets in further. Its voluntary liquidation will brace up and purify the political climate of the country. But I can see that I can carry nobody with me in this."

The following week, Gandhiji returned to the subject again. He remarked that if a big national organisation like the Congress could not be purged of corruption, untruth and such other unseemly practices, and if its infiltration by self-seekers could not be stopped, it was clear that its doom was sealed and that he would not shed a tear if it disappeared. "If a patient cannot be cured of a disease, the best thing that can happen to him is to pass away," he said. Imagine the angst that drove Gandhiji to such a desperate thought.

Subsequently, he told Rajendra Prasad, then Congress president: "One brick after another in the Congress edifice is loosening and coming off. The Congress has become lustreless. We should either keep before us the pledges we gave to the people and duly implement them or plainly admit that all we said before was mere rhetoric that can have no place in practical administration." Gandhiji also told the constructive workers that in the general "there is so much corruption today that it frightens me". Also, we must recognise the fact that "the Constitution we want or the social order of our dreams cannot come through the Congress of today".

Eventually, he embodied his wishes in `The Last Will and Testament' made public a day after his death. In this document, he averred that having attained Independence, "the Congress in its present shape and form i.e., as a propaganda vehicle and parliamentary machine, has outlived its use." For these and similar reasons, he asked the AICC "to disband the existing Congress organisation and flower into a Lok Sevak Sangh".