UP IS FREE OF CORRUPTION!

In this post I propose to pick up the threads from where I left them in the previous one (BiMLaR). The fact that BiMLaR is widely observed and enthusiastically practiced without any hindrance from the rule making authorities is proof enough that UP is totally free from corruption. The simple logic behind this deduction is not difficult to understand. People ignoring rules laid down by the authorities present an opportunity which will leave any graft loving traffic police drooling. They can stop them, threaten with fines and force them to pay up in return for not doing so. This will, of course, be a corrupt practice.

However I have not seen a single cop doing this, not in Lucknow. They just exchange pleasantries with each other as they observe BiMLaR in operation. And it is not BiMLaR alone. There are other laws and practices which contradict official traffic rules. And these are also looked upon with the same benign indifference or bemusement as invoked by BiMLaR. If you know the population of UP and the number of vehicles and drivers, you can easily estimate the fortune that could have been made by a corrupt police force. But this does not tempt our honest policemen here. What more proof do you need for UP being free of corruption?


Do you say that they may not be corrupt in the literal sense but failing to enforce the rules is dereliction of duty and a form of corruption? Well, you are stretching things too far. Farther than the queues that routinely form on the roads on account of a rule-free traffic. Farther than the distance between the fingers and toes of the honest policeman as he stretches himself as he watches BiMLaR in action.


Some truckwallahs seem to disagree with this view of a corruption-free traffice police in UP. This needs to be taken with a pinch of salt or whatever they have overloaded their truck with.