According to Aruna Roy and Anudhatry Roy ( Magsaysay award winners) Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal Bill is ''impractical and complicated'' and “dangerous piece of legislation” respectivelly.
.Aruna Roy is also against government's Lokpal.
- Lokpal is intended to be extremely powerful but what if it goes corrupt and use those powers adversely
- Section 23(1) proposes a maximum punishment of life imprisonment for corrupt public servants, while according to Chapter VI titled “Accountability of Officers of Lokpal” the punishment for a Lokpal member found guilty of corruption is just “dismissal, removal or reduction in rank.”
- It appears to violate the division of power between different pillars of the state
- Sec 4(4), which lists out persons not eligible to become chairperson or member of the Lokpal, needs to be modified to exclude any person who is, or has been, a member, sympathiser, associate or supporter of any communal organisation or person.
- (Aruna}Lokpal is not a magic wand, it will take care of an aspect of corruption in governance. It will not take care of complete corruption. It will not really take care of public corruption in different areas
- {Aruna}She felt that the suggestion of dual duties -- curbing corruption and redressing grievances -- under the Jan Lokpal was not feasible
- (Aruna)You will 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,
- Roy said excluding the prime minister and the higher judiciary from lokpal was wrong. "This is a wrong practice. Nobody should be above the law," she said, adding that there should be certain safeguards. "Like both the Lokpal and the Supreme Court should agree on a probe against the prime minister."
- The total estimated revenue of India for 2011-12 as projected in the last budget is Rs7,89,892 crore and 0.25 % of this is nearly 2000 crores, which the Lokpal will have access to without “any administrative or financial sanction from any government agency.” The drafters have to explain why such a huge amount of money is required for an institution, which according to Team Anna is not going to be flooded with thousands of complaints.
- 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.
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_jan-lokpal-bill-a-critique_1592023
http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2011/09/no-counter-revolution-please/
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/185255/jan-lokpal-impractical-undemocratic-aruna.html
http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2011/09/no-counter-revolution-please/
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/185255/jan-lokpal-impractical-undemocratic-aruna.html
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