Aruna Roy and Her Lok Pal Bill

Aruna Roy and Her Lok Pal Bill

Posted by Robby Sharma on 20-08-2011

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1. The latest news is that Ms Aruna Roy has come forward with another Lok Pal Bill and she claims that Anna and his team are not the only Civil Society in India.

2. Well Aruna Roy Ji I would like to tell you that the people of India will recognize the Team Anna as the Civil Society of India because they have been advancing the cause since long and their team Members have gone on fast and endangered their lives not once but several times.

3. So Aruna Roy Ji do you wish to say that we should also wait for your Children to grow up and stake a claim to being the Civil Society after say about ten or twenty years.

4. Aruna Roy Ji please note that you no longer belong to the Civil Society in fact now you belong to the Ruling Society being a member of the National Advisory Council a team headed by the Mother Hen of Corruption Ms Sonia Gandhi. It is only at her instigation that you have come forward to sabotage the people’s movement led by Anna.

5. Please remember you should not be jealous of Anna Hazare, you of your own accord Joined Sonia and her team.

6. Please remember that when a Goat is readied to be eaten he is castrated and he becomes badhia and grows fat and then he remains useless for any other manly purpose but simply provides more meat to the Eaters and that is the entire purpose of his castration.

7. So Aruna Roy ji please enjoy your position and the riches and power which come with it and leave India to the true Civil Society that is Anna and his team, you have had your day and your say and your day in the Sun now let the true Sun shine and do not try to diminish his brightness.

Here is an article about the Uncivil Comments against team Anna by Aruna Roy:-

Uncivil comments by Aruna Roy
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 16
Another meeting on the Jan Lokpal Bill at Nehru Memorial adjoining the historic Teen Murti Bhavan saw civil society members voicing apprehensions on the unlimited powers that the Lokpal would enjoy if an anti-corruption Bill, as envisaged by Hazare-Kejriwal group in the joint drafting committee, becomes a reality.

“The attempt is not to junk the Bill but we don’t want to create a Frankenstein either,” leading social activist and member of Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council Aruna Roy said at the meeting convened by social rights group NCPRI. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” she warned.

According to NCPRI member Shekhar Singh, accountability of the Loppal is exceedingly important. “Not just for the 11 persons at the top but at the level of vigilance officers in districts, where it may become the most lucrative post to hold,” he says. Ever since the agitation started, differences have emerged with the Hazare-Arvind Kejriwal group, which wanted its version of the Jan Lokpal Bill to be the basis of discussion with the government. An issue on which it particularly does not agree is the setting of deadlines, first for the Bill to be finalised and then passed by the Parliament.

The Aruna Roy-led Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghtan has asked for “broad public consultation, across groups and regions” to precede the joint drafting of the Lokpal Bill by civil society and UPA Ministers. There is a need for a strong anti-corruption bill but not at the cost of quality, Roy says, emphasising on need for large-scale public consultations and, more importantly, accountability of those who were being entrusted to hold others accountable through the Jan Lokpal Bill. “Other people who are interested in the Bill should generate discussions and present it to the government,” she adds.

Incidentally, members insisted that today’s meeting should not be termed as a “parallel meeting” since it had been planned much earlier. Roy said today’s meeting had originally been planned as a meeting of NAC’s Working Goup on Transparency and Accountability meeting on NAC, which was earlier shelved.

A Frankenstein’s monster that will devour all of us’

Krishen Kak 11 May 2011

Three earlier essays on “the Hazare phenomenon” enlarged on the duplicity involved of Hazare and company in their crusade against corruption.[1] The essays noted, in particular, the shady financial dealings and absence of transparency and accountability in the publicly-presented accounts of the NGOs of Hazare & co., though they demand transparency and accountability from others. Scanned were data in the public domain of Anna Hazare and his NGOs, Arvind Kejriwal and his NGOs, Kiran Bedi and her NGO, Swami Agnivesh, Mallika Sarabhai, Shanti and Prashant Bhushan, Medha Patkar, Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander. Justice Hegde’s association with the politically-biased Hazare & co., while still Karnataka State Lokayukta, was questioned. Noted too was the gross hypocrisy of their alignment with the person publicly described as the source of corruption in India.

In “The ox calling the donkey horned”, Aruna Roy was quoted on the Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by Kejriwal with support from Hegde and Prashant Bhushan. She called it “a Frankenstein’s monster that will devour all of us”. Aruna Roy is Convener of the Government of India’s National Advisory Council Working Group on Transparency, Accountability and Governance. She is thus Sonia Gandhi’s NAC mukhota in the war against corruption, just as Anna Hazare is Kejriwal’s PCRF’s IAC’s mukhota.