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Anna Hazare Rejects Offer of Informal Committee of Civil Society Activists, Govt Representatives to Draft Effective Lokpal Bill

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Beyond Headlines Published April 7, 2011
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New Delhi (PTI): As the government opened a channel of communication with Anna Hazare, he today rejected the reported offer of an informal committee of civil society activists and government representatives to draft an effective Lokpal bill.

After Union Minister Kapil Sibal met with two activists Swami Agnivesh and Arvind Kejriwal this morning to find a way out and they reported to him on the talks, the 72-year-old Gandhian “we will continue the fast till our demands are not met“.

Kejriwal told the protesters at the fast site at Jantar Mantar that Sibal agreed with their demand for a 50:50 representation for civil society activists and government representatives on a joint committee for drafting the bill.

Photo by Vabhav Bhardwaj

But, he said, Sibal had told them that it would not be constituted through a notification but would be an informal committee.

 

The assembled gathering rejected this offer as also the formula that senior minister Pranab Mukherjee would be its Chairman.

“Anna Hazare should be the Chairman” demanded the gathering.

The two activists also told Sibal that they cannot wait till May 13 when the current assembly elections would end for beginning work on drafting the bill. “We want work to start just now,” he said as the crowd roared in approval.

He said Swami Agnivesh told the minister that the revised bill should be ready when the monsoon of Parliament commences.

After listening to Kejriwal and the crowd’s demand, Hazare got up to make a brief statement saying “I will continue the fast till all our demands are not met“.

Swami Agnivesh and Kejriwal would be meeting Sibal later in the day for another round of talks and said he will continue his indefinite fast till their demands are met.

Mr. Sibal, who met the activists at his residence, said the broad parametres of solving the issue has been agreed upon.

“We have started a channel of communication. We met last evening. We met today also. The talks have been constructive…The formalities are yet to be agreed upon. We are meeting again,” Sibal told reporters after the meeting.

But he did not elaborate on what the formula is saying the attempt is that all are together.

“We want to deal with corruption. We want to get rid of corruption. We want the civil society to participate. We have no problem with that,” he said appealing to Hazare to call off the hunger strike.

“The objective of the government and civil society is to sit together and to deal with the issue of corruption effectively through an appropriate legislation,” he said.

Swami Agnivesh said he will inform Hazare about the outcome of the talks which he described as “positive“. “We will inform Hazare about the talks. The final decision will be his,” he said.

TAGGED:Anna Hazare fastcorruptionKapil Sibballokpal billPranab MukherjeeSwami Agnivesh
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