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Lokpal logjam: PM walks extra mile, Anna Hazare unmovedHimanshi DhawanHimanshi Dhawan, TNN Aug 26, 2011, 12.44AM ईस्ट
The Prime Minister first raised hopes by offering to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill, as drafted by Team Anna, for discussion in Parliament. But this was rebuffed by Anna Hazare who insisted on an assurance that the three sticking points of the bill - inclusion of lower bureaucracy in Lokpal, setting up Lokayuktas in all states, and bringing a citizens' charter for public services - be incorporated in the new bill after a debate।
The government found this assurance almost impossible to give as that would mean presuming Parliament's will।

In virtual world, Angry Anna vanquishes UPAMahafreed IraniMahafreed Irani, TNN Aug 26, 2011, 01.30AM ईस्ट
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While the animated heads of Hazare, Kiran Bedi and Baba Ramdev have replaced the red, blue, yellow and black angry birds, Manmohan Singh, Suresh Kalmadi, Kapil Sibal and P Chidambaram and Digvijay Singh have replaced the villainous pigs। Just like in Angry Birds, players have to break the protective structures around the villains to kill them. Only in this desi version, it's for a greater cause-to end corruption.
"This is our way of showing support to the movement," says Himanshu Himthani, co-founder of Geek Mentors Studios।

BJP slams govt for 'mishandling' Anna Hazare issueTNN Aug 26, 2011, 02.31AM ईस्ट
BJP said it was "solidly" behind Hazare and even suggested that the legislation should be passed at the earliest without getting entangled in rules and procedures।

Manish Tewari regrets 'hurting' Anna, still faces lawsuitTNN Aug 26, 2011, 01.18AM ईस्ट
the spokesman went ballistic against the Gandhian by accusing him of being "corrupt from head to toe" ahead of the protest फास्ट
Tewari had also mocked Team Anna as a collection of "armchair fascists, overground Maoists, closet anarchists funded by invisible donors"।
Congress realized the faux pas with the party forcing Tewari into virtual hiding।

Lokpal crisis: Congress misses Sonia Gandhi in time of crisisSubodh GhildiyalSubodh Ghildiyal, TNN Aug 26, 2011, 12.53AM
the party chief would have handled the situation much better।
The government miscalculated by aggressively targeting the Gandhian with accusations of corruption and then arrested him and sent to Tihar Jail, fuelling anger and escalating hostilities। While the Centre has blamed the court for the Tihar order, Congress MPs are now punching holes in the theory, saying that the so called magistrate was a Delhi Police ACP-rank officer who acted as quasi-judicial authority, indicating that he would not have moved without orders from the top.
I'd rather not be Anna
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Arundhati Roy
For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan Lokpal Bill, here are the answers you're likely to get: tick the box — (a) Vande Mataram (b) Bharat Mata ki Jai (c) India is Anna, Anna is India (d) Jai Hind।
For completely different reasons, and in completely different ways, you could say that the Maoists and the Jan Lokpal Bill have one thing in common — they both seek the overthrow of the Indian State। One working from the bottom up, by means of an armed struggle, waged by a largely adivasi army, made up of the poorest of the poor. The other, from the top down, by means of a bloodless Gandhian coup, led by a freshly minted saint, and an army of largely urban, and certainly better off people. (In this one, the Government collaborates by doing everything it possibly can to overthrow itself.)
Team Anna whizzed in and out of the high security prison, carrying out his video messages, to be broadcast on national TV on all channels। (Which other person would be granted this luxury?) Meanwhile 250 employees of the Municipal Commission of Delhi, 15 trucks, and six earth movers worked around the clock to ready the slushy Ramlila grounds for the grand weekend spectacle. Now, waited upon hand and foot, watched over by chanting crowds and crane-mounted cameras, attended to by India's most expensive doctors, the third phase of Anna's fast to the death has begun. “From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, India is One,” the TV anchors tell us.
While his means may be Gandhian, Anna Hazare's demands are certainly not। Contrary to Gandhiji's ideas about the decentralisation of power, the Jan Lokpal Bill is a draconian, anti-corruption law, in which a panel of carefully chosen people will administer a giant bureaucracy, with thousands of employees, with the power to police everybody from the Prime Minister, the judiciary, members of Parliament, and all of the bureaucracy, down to the lowest government official. The Lokpal will have the powers of investigation, surveillance, and prosecution. Except for the fact that it won't have its own prisons, it will function as an independent administration, meant to counter the bloated, unaccountable, corrupt one that we already have. Two oligarchies, instead of just one.
Imagine, for example, a city of shopping malls, on whose streets hawking has been banned। A hawker pays the local beat cop and the man from the municipality a small bribe to break the law and sell her wares to those who cannot afford the prices in the malls. Is that such a terrible thing? In future will she have to pay the Lokpal representative too? Does the solution to the problems faced by ordinary people lie in addressing the structural inequality, or in creating yet another power structure that people will have to defer to?
The Fast' of course doesn't mean Irom Sharmila's fast that has lasted for more than ten years (she's being force fed now) against the AFSPA, which allows soldiers in Manipur to kill merely on suspicion। It does not mean the relay hunger fast that is going on right now by ten thousand villagers in Koodankulam protesting against the nuclear power plant. ‘The People' does not mean the Manipuris who support Irom Sharmila's fast. Nor does it mean the thousands who are facing down armed policemen and mining mafias in Jagatsinghpur, or Kalinganagar, or Niyamgiri, or Bastar, or Jaitapur. Nor do we mean the victims of the Bhopal gas leak, or the people displaced by dams in the Narmada Valley. Nor do we mean the farmers in NOIDA, or Pune or Haryana or elsewhere in the country, resisting the takeover of the land.
The People' only means the audience that has gathered to watch the spectacle of a 74-year-old man threatening to starve himself to death if his Jan Lokpal Bill is not tabled and passed by Parliament। ‘The People' are the tens of thousands who have been miraculously multiplied into millions by our TV channels, like Christ multiplied the fishes and loaves to feed the hungry. “A billion voices have spoken,” we're told. “India is Anna.”
Who is he really, this new saint, this Voice of the People? Oddly enough we've heard him say nothing about things of urgent concern। Nothing about the farmer's suicides in his neighbourhood, or about Operation Green Hunt further away. Nothing about Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh, nothing about Posco, about farmer's agitations or the blight of SEZs. He doesn't seem to have a view about the Government's plans to deploy the Indian Army in the forests of Central India.
He does however support Raj Thackeray's Marathi Manoos xenophobia and has praised the ‘development model' of Gujarat's Chief Minister who oversaw the 2002 pogrom against Muslims। (Anna withdrew that statement after a public outcry, but presumably not his admiration.)
Mukul Sharma who has studied Anna's village community in Ralegan Siddhi, where there have been no Gram Panchayat or Co-operative society elections in the last 25 years। We know about Anna's attitude to ‘harijans': “It was Mahatma Gandhi's vision that every village should have one chamar, one sunar, one kumhar and so on. They should all do their work according to their role and occupation, and in this way, a village will be self-dependant. This is what we are practicing in Ralegan Siddhi.” Is it surprising that members of Team Anna have also been associated with Youth for Equality, the anti-reservation (pro-“merit”) movement? The campaign is being handled by people who run a clutch of generously funded NGOs whose donors include Coca-Cola and the Lehman Brothers. Kabir, run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, key figures in Team Anna, has received $400,000 from the Ford Foundation in the last three years. Among contributors to the India Against Corruption campaign there are Indian companies and foundations that own aluminum plants, build ports and SEZs, and run Real Estate businesses and are closely connected to politicians who run financial empires that run into thousands of crores of rupees. Some of them are currently being investigated for corruption and other crimes. Why are they all so enthusiastic?
At a time when the State is withdrawing from its traditional duties and Corporations and NGOs are taking over government functions (water supply, electricity, transport, telecommunication, mining, health, education); at a time when the terrifying power and reach of the corporate owned media is trying to control the public imagination, one would think that these institutions — the corporations, the media, and NGOs — would be included in the jurisdiction of a Lokpal bill। Instead, the proposed bill leaves them out completely.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2379704.ece?homepage=त्रुए
Anna's proposals on Jan Lokpal to be discussed in Parliament
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New Delhi Bureau
Won't die till Jan Lokpal Bill is passed, says अन्ना
MetroThe four stations -- Udyog Bhawan, Race Course, Jor Bagh on Gurgaon Line and Khan Market on Badarpur corridor were closed at 3:00 pm.
“The metro stations were closed following orders from the Delhi Police. The stations will be closed till further orders,” a DMRC spokesman said. stations near PM's home close as प्रेकौतिओन
Why Ramlila surge worries minorities and those on मर्गिंस
In Team Anna’s contemptuous indictment of Parliament, they see a tarring of representative politics and, in effect, an indictment of the vital safeguards of minorities।
Varun Gandhi’s much-hyped appearance at Ramlila today only reinforced these — in his hate-Muslim election speech in 2009, he had threatened to “cut the hand” of anyone who “raises a finger at the Hindus।”
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/why-ramlila-surge-worries-minorities-and-those-on-margins/836750/२