Elite behaviour is challenge to supremacy of law: Ansari
November 22nd, 2009
NEW DELHI - The supremacy of law faces a challenge of elite behaviour
as media reports tell how elite are able to subvert law with money or
influence, Vice President Hamid Ansari said Sunday.
"The challenge to the supremacy of rule of law is elite behaviour.
National and international media is full of reports of how the elite
are able to subvert the rule of law with money or influence. A large
swathe of society and polity even accept this situation as a way of
life," a concerned Ansari said.
He was delivering valedictory address at the International Conference
of Jurists - 2009 here.
"While the normative elements of legal and political systems seek to
establish the rule of law, the reality of systemic discrimination and
exclusion based on community, gender, class and other limiting and
distorting considerations is compelling," he added.
Ansari called corruption an ailment that is pervasive, cancerous and
multi-dimensional.
"In moral terms, it (corruption) corrodes the social and political
fabric of society and increases injustice; in its legal implications,
it results in disregard for the rule of law; in its developmental
aspect, it tends to distort the decision-making processes and is
wasteful of resources," he noted in his speech.
Corruption, he said, "shakes the legitimacy of the state, erodes
sovereignty of the state and its capacity to exercise sovereign
functions including ensuring law and order for the citizens."
He said corruption was a "significant threat to national security".
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