Former chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh S C Behar, who has been entrusted with responsibility to draft AAP government's Swaraj Bill, today said direct democracy is a "countervailing force" to globalisation which is "the main cause of corruption".
"Globalisation is the main cause behind the prevailing corruption as some people control things and lives of people, which leads to profit-making and from here comes crops of corruption. With Swaraj, people will have control over their own lives," he told PTI.
He said the Bill is being drafted keeping in mind three principles.
First, he explained, is making citizens empowered to solve their problems on their own, which is 'direct democracy.'
"Here people directly will have the power to take decisions and solve problems on their own and Mohallasabha is a model of that," he said.
Secondly, he said, "where this direct democracy cannot be implemented, participatry democracy comes to the scene where there is large public participation to solve issues and problems. The idea here is to bridge the gap between government, authorities and people."
"And where both these are not possible, there will be accountable representative democracy. Under this system, the person in charge will be accountable on a regular basis and not after five, ten years," he explained.
Behar, who met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and Education, PWD and Urban development Minister Manish Sisodia today and yesterday, said a team of five experts, including him, is working on the Bill and he is collecting various suggestions offered by people and various officials.
