LOK PAL BILL: Over 1 lakh join Times Online campaign for strong Lokpal!

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TNN / Aug 5, 2011, 07.45AM IST.

NEW DELHI: Politicians engaged in a fierce debate with Team Anna over the proposed institution of Lokpal may not have noticed it, but a mammoth anticorruption campaign for a strong Lokpal has been gaining momentum online.

We are talking about the campaign, Act Against Corruption, which we launched on timesofindia.com a few weeks ago for a "strong Lokpal". More than one lakh people have joined the campaign. The number is growing as the campaign continues. As a measure of public sentiment, the number is huge indeed, considering that online polls and surveys typically attract only a couple of thousand participants. Even product research, research for TV advertising and election forecasts are based on surveys of not more than a few thousand people. Other than the campaign, timesofindia.com carried out a poll in which more than 23,000 people participated. An overwhelming number of respondents said they wanted the PM, the judiciary and MPs under the purview of the Lokpal. The results of the poll were carried in Thursday's edition.

A large number of those who have joined this online campaign have also posted their comments on our campaign page, backing Anna Hazare's demand that the Prime Minister and the judiciary be brought under the purview of the Lokpal.

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Lok Pal Bill: Govt for strong Lokpal Bill that satisfies majority: Khurshid!

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Union Minister and member of Lokpal Bill drafting committee on Tuesday said efforts are on to make a “strong” legislation which can satisfy “majority” of the people. File Photo - PTI.

Union Minister Salman Khurshid, who is a member of the joint drafting committee on the Lokpal Bill, on Tuesday said efforts are on to make a “strong” legislation which can satisfy “majority” of the people.

“There is nothing which can satisfy the whole society but we are trying to come up with something that satisfies the majority of the people,” he told reporters here on the proposed Lokpal Bill.

Asked if the issues between the civil society and the Government have been sorted out, the Minister said, “We have no complaints. We are talking and want a good and strong Lokpal Bill to be presented before the public.”

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2123291.ece