Corruption has become way of life:
As the Rajya Sabha took up the debate on the Lokpal Bill, Mr Jaitley said: ``The message is loud and clear, people are not ready to accept the present status quo. ``Corruption in many areas has become a way of life.'' The BJP leader said the ``upper sections of the society bend the rules and indulge in corruption, while the common people suffer. ``There are low areas of society where the average man has to confront corruption as a way of life,'' he said. He said some ``not so complementary statements'' were being made about Parliament and MPs. He urged fellow members not to pay attention to them. ``Time has now come to raise the bar of accountability in India. Existing structures have not succeeded. They have not responded to the enormity of the situation,'' he said. The Upper House took up the debate at noon, an hour after the Lok Sabha begun the debate to resolve the logjam over a Lokpal Bill following a fast by Mr Hazare that entered the 12th day Saturday.
``Poverty and corruption are rampant in the country and no effective steps had been taken to eradicate them.. the country needs a system where the government was run like an Army unit for which the nation is of prime importance and caste or religion comes later,'' Singh said in Jind on Friday night addressing a public meeting of ##Q##Jantantra Yatra##Q##, led by anti-corruption crusader and social activist Anna Hazare.