AAP protests at PM's house against amendments in RTI

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Government has decided to amend RTI act to exclude political parties from its ambit saying that political parties are not public authorities and, hence, this law does not apply to them. 
The Cabinet has also approved an amendment to Section 2(h) of the RTI Act regarding exclusion of political parties.


Aam Admi Party has cleared that it supports Political parties to come under RTI.

Therefore today(Aug,4,2013) AAP started the #SaveRTI campaign and its activist protested against this amendment outside the PM's house( at 7, Race Course Road.)

These activist were  beaten up by the police.NCPRI (National Campaign for people's Right to Information) also started an e-petition against this amendment using which you may write to PM to stop this amendment Click here to file petition an e-petition

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Source:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-03/india/41032099_1_cic-order-rti-act-political-parties
http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/news/aap-opposes-move-by-government-to-amend-rti-act-to-exclude-political-parties
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.394802160619550.1073741896.290805814352519&type=1

Team Anna wants Congress to reveal poll campaign expenses

Arvind Kejriwal asked the former to reveal details of Rahul Gandhi's poll campaign expenses.

           _Kejriwal tweeted: "Election is over, and Diggi Raja should now give details of the expenses by Rahul Gandhi on         helicopters and campaigning in the UP elections."

(In reply)-_Digvijay Singh said: "If they (Team Anna) can spend 36 lakhs in their days long campaign then he can well imagine how much we must have spent in our month-long rallies." 
Singh further said expense reports would be submitted to the Election Commission and not to Kejriwal as he was against the Congress Party.  Anna Hazare said: "So, what wrong has Arvind Kejriwal said? Transparency should be there." 

Editor's view: Well of course there should be declaration of expanses by any political party (weather congress or bjp) before public as over expanses by political parties are not permitted by our election's 'code of conduct'  Moreover Team Anna is not a political party and hence its free to spend 36 lakhs, and big thing is , at least T.Anna declared what they expanded. T. Anna has, whenever asked declared his account status, what about politicians!
Source:http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/03/05/272871-Kejriwal-tells-mentor-Digvijay-to-reveal-Rahul-Gandhi-s-poll-campaign-expenses.html

Anna is still more popular than any other political figure: Survey shows

Those who thinks that Anna has lost the political and popularity grip will bite the dust, because latest survey ‘The Mood of Nation’ conducted by India Today reveals that Anna is n Top in people’s mind.

This survey is conducted across 19 states and 98 randomly selected parliamentary constituencies  with 12,648 voters/responders.

1. During survey 63% agreed that Lokpal presented by Government is weak and supported Anna’s Janlokpal version. 
2. When asked who will they vote for if both Anna and Rahul Gandhi were to contest election then 60% favoured Anna and only 24% took Rahul 
3. When asked who is their role mode then Anna  got the highest percentage(14%) beating Sachin Tendulkar(6%), Rajiv Gandhi(4%) , Amithab Bacchan(3%) Virender Shevag (3%), Narendra Modi(2%), MS Dhoni(2%)

Apart form this this survey also showed that next parliament election could see a PM from neither Congress nor BJP, parties other than these have better chance to form majority in parliament.
It showed that public's support for Congress has declined and now Bjp and Congress have support that is almost equal to each other but smaller than other parties.
SOURCE: INDIA TODAY ( February 6,2012 edition of magazine )
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/gallery/india-today-poll-mood-of-the-nation-2012/1/6443.html#photo10

Answer to your questions

 FIVE BIG QUESTIONS affecting this movement.


Q.1 Is Anna an agent of rss?
Ans.  -Anna said Advani's Rath Yatara is a 'Nautanki'
         -Anna Said If congress is graduate then Bjp is post Graduate in terms of corruption
         -Anna said that even Bjp has misused CBI.
         -Anna had conducted anti corruption movements even against BJP!
         -Anna Conducted survey's and campaigns in even BJP's Constituencies and said not to vote BJP if it   doesn't support lokpal.Then how the hell he is an agent of rss

Q2.What is Anna's relation with  Nanaji Deshmuk?
Ans. Recently  Digvijay declared that Anna is an rss member by showing his photo with  Nanaji Deshmuk
The Photo of Anna with Nanaji is presented by a local newspaper and not some big news source so it cannot be believed blindly. Moreover even if we believe the report of news paper then we will realize  Anna was with Deshmuk in order to gain experience about rural development from Deshmukh(who was Padmavibhushan winner and had an infinite experience in this field )

Q3 Why Anna rejects all the bills by government?
Ans. All the lokpals by government are rejected not only by team Anna but also by many other democrats and activist(even those who are against Anna) including Aruna Roy saying that Government lokpals are more impractical.

Q4 Why Anna  dictates parliament ?
Ans. Lokpal is rusting in the drawers of parliament from the last 4 decades and no party passed the bill.
Moreover Parliament is full of corrupt MP's which will get destroyed if lokpal is passed (presence of such MP's is indicated by Cash for vote as an example)   hence parliment and government is not presenting a healthy or even good lokpal.There are many MP's and incidents which erased our faith towards parliment.  After all this Image of parliment and government is not made by Team Anna , its a self made image! 

Q5.Can Anna be believed?
Ans. Anna Hazera is not a new activist that we must not believe him
He is believed by country for decades for his many other acts

•  Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra (against Bjp and shiv sena)
•  Right to Information movement
•  Removal of untouchability
• Education
• Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act

 A Report by AwareMe

PUNISH US but don't pollute and loose movement's strength: Arvind

Defending himself and Kiran Bedi, who is under attack for inflating her travel bills, Kejriwal on Tuesday (Oct 25, 2011,)  said, "If someone paid the ticket examiner in Railway because he needed a ticket, so that person cannot question Suresh Kalmadi? Is this the message being given out?
"Do you mean to say that out of 120 crore people, only saints can question UPA's corruption and government will keep on robbing people? If anybody questions then that person will be asked to look into his case first," he said and warned that if the current smear campaign continues, the next movement will be 10 times bigger.


"Dont forgive us. Give us twice the punishment given to common people. But bring Lokpal and you will have to," he said.
He lamented that the whole attention is being shifted from corruption movement and Lokpal to core committe which has "no importance".


"Whether Kiran Bedi paid bills or not has become national issue. It will not benefit nation. It will be useful when Lokpal will come. Government should understand that their ways and methods are increasing the anger among people," he said.


"If Kiran bedi has committed a crime, hang her. Send her to jail but talk about Lokpal Bill. Whatever mistake she has done, investigate and punish her but we cannot decide it in a press conference whether the allegations are true or false," he said.
On Lokpal Bill, he said there was no other way than passing Lokpal Bill and they were ready for dialogue.

"When had we run away from dialogue. But on the other hand allegations were levelled against us everyday. They spoilt the atmosphere. Who is creating disturbance. If the government's intentions are honest, then the Bill can be passed in a day," he said.
Asked about the "Gang of Four" referred to by Hazare, Kejriwal said it was a guess and only Hazare knows about it. "I don't know," he said.


"Investigate us, put all the agencies in the country after us, punish us in the harshest way but you will have to bring the Lokpal Bill," he said.
Editor's view: Arvind is right in saying that LOKPAL should not loose strength because facts against them(Arvind and Kiran) maybe real but are presented to loose the strength of the movement. But I don't support Arvind's rail example(first para) as a corrupt is corrupt weather a rail briber or a national level corrupt, small corruption is the root of big one.


source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow1/10489397.cms

RTI effect: Govt to release Lokpal tapes

In a concession to Team Anna, the government on Sunday agreed to make the audio recordings of proceedings of the Joint Committee public(The Joint Drafting Committee, comprising five members of Team Anna and an equal number of Cabinet ministers, was formed to finalise the draft of the Lokpal Bill. for more information click here)  
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had earlier refused to bring out the deliberations of the Committee in public domain, saying it would need the Law Ministry's nod. The new position was revealed when an RTI activist was told he could get access to the audio recordings.

What is also important is the government will not be releasing all the details in these audio tapes, there will be some kind of selective release and this has come essentially because of the RTI application that was filed by Subhash Agarwal, who wanted all the details, particularly the audio clippings of the closed door meeting that happened between Team Anna and the 5 members of the cabinet be released and made public.

But it's clear that the government will be cautious in not releasing anything that can affect the draft of the Lokpal Bill and it has made it clear that this has been done only after the law ministry gave its nod to the DoPT that it can go ahead and release these audiotapes

However team Anna member and former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde is skeptical about the Government move to release the audio tapes of joint Lokpal panel's meetings, expressing fears that the CDs could be "edited". 

However, Anna Hazare has welcomed the government's decision and said the public had the right to know the truth.

Sources: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/govt-concedes-to-rti-query-releases-lokpal-tapes/191510-3.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Santosh-Hegde-fears-Lokpal-audio-clips-may-be-edited/articleshow/10293142.cms