tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15117835.post6901551718569648863..comments2023-07-23T14:15:48.716+05:30Comments on A Rendezvous at Coffee House: What Anna Hazare achievedSouravhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407003971046041729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15117835.post-50822062249418142011-09-20T06:05:16.107+05:302011-09-20T06:05:16.107+05:30Well Sourav very well written, but my opposition t...Well Sourav very well written, but my opposition to the Anna movement (I admire the cause of anti - corruption) stems from the fact of ignorance of the people supporting the movement at the grass roots.I am referring to the common people who gathered at the Ram Lila Maidan and did candle light marches. Actually how many people read the draft Jan Lokpal Bill and applied their mind to it before they went to Ram Lila Maidan.I am more or less sure not more than a handful. The intolerance of the Anna camp towards any dissent, calling names to people like Aruna Roy just because they disagreed with his draft and had proposed a separate draft. Further there is a fundamental difference with the JP movement in the 70's as not only did JP mobilise hundred times more people in an age where there was no media, other than a state run radio and few handful newspapers, which was heavily censored. People came to support JP not because of 24/7 media blitzkrieg but because they understood the reason behind the movement.As Aruna Roy rightly pointed out that when she had gone to the Faculty of Law at Delhi University to discuss the Jan Lokpal Bill, these are law students, who are supposed to understand the nuances of law, no one had read any of the four drafts proposed by various groups but everyone had an opinion.Having read the Anna's version of the Jan Lokpal Bill, I am of the view that this structure of LokPal will end up becoming another organ in the hand of the government, another layer of bureaucracy. Anna Camp wants the Supreme Court to be under the LokPal and also the Supreme Court to be the highest authority to monitor the Lok Pal, I am at loss of words to understand how this may even work. Anyways for better or for worse it did shake up a lethargic corrupt government. But what scares me is that how easily the common people can be swayed one way or the other, Anna's cause is good, but did anyone bother to even understand whether the means (Jan Lok Pal Bill) will achieve. A complex piece is of legislation is not everyone's forte to understand, but without actually being aware of something, if people take the street, then there is a fundamental problem. Today the cause was good, but this is a dangerous precedent and weapon if it falls in the hands of vested interests.Sayantanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11532472442522692092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15117835.post-70026352398428892822011-09-05T22:12:25.161+05:302011-09-05T22:12:25.161+05:30Very nicely analyzed. I agree with most of the vie...Very nicely analyzed. I agree with most of the views presented except that to me Kiran Bedi has rightly pointed out the need for informed voting rather than a herd-like behaviour. The path ahead will be long and torturous. We must all do our bitDebaleena Nandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04465868553776938464noreply@blogger.com