Thousands of calls were received on an anti-corruption hotline launched by the Indian capital’s new anticorruption government. The chief minister remarked that the exceeded “all expectations.”
In the first seven hours of its launch on Thursday, the graft hotline aimed to report bureaucratic corruption received a total of 3,904 calls.
The newly elected Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the graft hotline aimed at stopping rampant corruption among bureaucrats received 3,904 calls in the first seven hours of operation on Thursday.
“We congratulate the people of Delhi. Everyone has become an anti-corruption ‘sting’ operator,” the The newly elected Delhi chief minister and leader of the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, Arvind Kejriwal told the media late Thursday.
The number of callers “exceeded all expectations”, he added.
“This will make corrupt people fearful of taking a bribe,” he added.
The hotline aims at counselling people what to do if a government official asks for bribery. It will remain open from 8am to 10am.
Critics fear the anti-corruption activism encouraged by the new state government could lead to a form of vigilantism as there has been a media report about a surge in spy-cams and surveillance equipment sales.
The Aam Aadmi Party plans to contest seats in the general elections due in a few months after its success in the Delhi state polls.
Delhi’s anticorruption hotline sweeps expectations, thousands call
