{"id":12829,"date":"2011-08-22T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2011-08-22T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:32:32","slug":"aruna-roy-jan-lokpal-bill-impractical-undemocratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aruna-roy-jan-lokpal-bill-impractical-undemocratic","title":{"rendered":"Aruna Roy: Jan Lokpal Bill impractical, undemocratic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12830\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aruna-roy-jan-lokpal-bill-impractical-undemocratic\/lok-pal-bill-5\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?fit=318%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"318,159\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LOK-PAL-BILL2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?fit=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12830\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?resize=318%2C159&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?resize=150%2C75&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/LOK-PAL-BILL2.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>Terming Anna Hazare&#8217;s Jan Lokpal Bill &#8220;impractical and complicated&#8221;, noted social activist and National Advisory Council ( NAC) member Aruna Roy said that giving widespread powers to an unelected body is a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jan Lokpal is a bill impossible to implement. Also, it derails the checks and balances between the judiciary, executive and other organs of the democratic structure,&#8221; Roy, 65, who pioneered the right to information (RTI) movement in the country, told in an interview here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that we agree with the government Lokpal Bill. The Lokpal legislation should be thoroughly deliberated again by activists, lawmakers and all other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We of course support the democratic right of Hazare to hold demonstrations and fast against the government. That is why we condemned the arrest of Hazare,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we have no meeting point with them, though we keep meeting each other at functions and meetings of common interest,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the huge public support Hazare has drawn, Roy said: &#8220;There have been huge gatherings in support of NGO-sponsored agitations, like the Narmada Bachao movement. It might not have got similar publicity, as live TV was not there then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roy and her fellow activists in the National Campaign for People&#8217;s Right to Information (NCPRI) have prepared an alternate version of the Lokpal bill, which will be presented to parliament&#8217;s standing committee.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, a Magsaysay award winner, said the Jan Lokpal bill is a &#8220;giant, complicated exercise&#8221; as it tried to extend from the prime minister to a peon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wants to bring the higher judiciary into its ambit, which otherwise should have been under the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She felt that the suggestion of dual duties &#8212; curbing corruption and redressing grievances &#8212; under the Jan Lokpal was not feasible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Jan Lokpal is a threat to democracy as a powerful, non-elected agency can lead to abuse of power and abuse of authority. Power corrupts and absolutely power corrupts absolutely,&#8221; she quipped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grievance redressal should not be the role of the Lokpal; it should be the work of the executive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See, wages of lakhs of workers in the NREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) in Rajasthan have not been paid. But that is because the shortage of bank staff and other bureaucratic delays,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The massive organisational setup suggested in the Jan Lokpal will lead to corruption and inefficiency, she cautioned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may be able to find 11 Lokpal members of integrity, but it is difficult to create a clean set-up of thousands of staffers and hold them accountable,&#8221; Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>The government-drafted Lokpal is also deficient on several fronts, she added. Since it excludes cases under the state governments, there can be no probe against cases like the Adarsh housing society scandal, the Commonwealth Games scam and illegal mining in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>She said excluding the prime minister and the higher judiciary was wrong. &#8220;This is a wrong practice. Nobody should be above the law,&#8221; she said, adding that there should be certain safeguards. &#8220;Like both the Lokpal and the Supreme Court should agree on a probe against the prime minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roy also suggested that the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill should be revised to facilitate effective action against the higher judiciary while the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) should be strengthened to probe junior officials.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblowers&#8217; protection bill too should be revised to deal with the increasing attacks and threats against RTI activists, she suggested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lokpal bill should not become an issue of adamant stances, political rivalries and personality-driven agitations. What we need is a sincere, detailed debate for legislation of immense social significance and public concern,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from 1968 to 1974, resigned from the government as the clouds of Emergency were gathering. She took to social work in the Social Work Research Centre in Tilonia in Rajasthan, founded by her husband Sanjit &#8216;Bunker&#8217; Roy, another Magsaysay award winner.<\/p>\n<p>However, she professionally disassociated from her husband in 1983, reportedly for ideological reasons, and founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana (Workers and Peasants Strength Union) in 1990 in Devdoongri in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>Roy&#8217;s campaign for right to information led to the enactment of the RTI Act &#8211; in Rajasthan in 2000 and five years later at the national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terming Anna Hazare&#8217;s Jan Lokpal Bill &#8220;impractical and complicated&#8221;, noted social activist and National Advisory Council ( NAC) member Aruna Roy said that giving widespread powers to an unelected body is a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221;. &#8220;Jan Lokpal is a bill impossible to implement. 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