- Bribe Hotline
- 13 years ago
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Raghu, What is the issue Baba Amte fighting for? What is he demanding? Are you supporting him? **********
I think you mean Anna Hazare! The India Against Corruption group is demanding a strong Lokpal bill be enacted. They have drafted a version named the Jan lokpal bill and following Annaji's fast, a negotiating committee has been formed to negotiate the provisions of the Lokpal bill, with the government
Ipaidabribe.com is fully supportive of what these movements stand for and we give the move for a Janlokpal bill our undiluted support. We have done this in many ways, by taking part in protest marches in Bangalore, engaged in discussions and public meetings, given interviews and sound bytes to support the cause, put up information and links on our site and exhorted other citizens to lend their support.
Of late, however, there has been an increasingly combative attitude on both sides. We believe that when an agitationist approach is taken under the full glare of the media, the real issues are forgotten. The anti-corruption agenda also gets politicised in the process. Suffice to say that none of our political parties are clean and none can therefore escape by supporting an agitation against the government.
Given these issues, we believe that the boycott of the deliberations of the Joint Committee for drafting the Lokpal bill, by Civil Society representatives can be counter-productive. The Joint Committee is the most important forum today for civil society to interact productively with the government. We must not forsake this opportunity. We must continue to work with the government if we have to get a Lokpal Act. No provocation should deviate us from this path. A stalemate is in nobody’s interest.