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Talks between government and Anna Hazare-led civil society failed to make headway on Wednesday and the two sides to agreed to meet again on June 20 and 21 to bridge ‘strong divergence’ of opinion.
In view of the differences over various elements of the proposed Lokpal Bill, it was decided at the two-and-half hour meeting of the joint drafting committee that a note will be sent to the Union Cabinet by June 30, carrying versions of both the sides.
The Anna Hazare-led civil society members suggested that Lokpal should be empowered top probe corruption cases against officials doing away with the practice of conducting departmental probe along with a CBI enquiry. However, the government members rejected.
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However, these are merely the facts of reality, not what Manish Tiwari and
ReplyDeletePranab Mukherjee would like to believe. They, like their other colleagues
in the government, are obviously passing through hallucinations and
illusions. In Anna Hazare, they are seeing a heavily armed warrior - 'a
tyrant' - at the head of an angry army of India's masses charging
ferociously straight into them. The scenario reminds us of Wordsworth's
adolescent thief who was fleeing with his stolen boat but felt the hilltop
behind was chasing him so menacingly that the farther he roved the bigger
the shadow loomed over him. The more the government tries to shoo away the
Lokpal and anti-corruption uproar, the more vigorous becomes the public
outcry against corruption. Indian politicians could not have had more
decent and loving enemies than Anna Hazare and his candle wielding masses or
Baba Ramdev with his devotees practising abstinence and yoga. Arrogant
governments in West Asia and North Africa are facing more violent and
destructive uprisings. We have a choice to change peacefully.
While anxiety of those in power is understandable, they cannot avoid the
problem by facing in the other direction. The tide is unstoppable. The
people deserve and demand an effective Lokpal to rein in rampant corruption
and they shall have it either with your cooperation or the tumult will crush
authoritarian arrogance and install people's choice