Anna Hazare's 3-sticking points - how legitimate are they?

A good initiative from Anna Hazareji. We all should support this noble cause.
Thanks for referral, Muralidharanji.

At last, the three contentious points were adopted unanimously in both the house of parliament.  In the hindsight, it looked so abominable and shaky from outside and bringing the consensus in the Parliament was considered totally impossible, as the politicians had a feeling that the civil society is trespassing into their domain.  The jig-saw puzzle to garner one-upmanship by both the ruling party and the opposition citing various rules to bring this issue in parliament was a real moment of anxiety & joy, quickly converted into anxiety again for the Anna team were told that the voting for resolution would not take place but in the end instead it got converted into celebrating moment.  The master stroke of politicians will be remembered for ever as they have shown utmost responsibility cutting across party lines extending solidarity for a cause to uphold the parliamentary democracy on the one hand and extending fair amount of support to save the life of Anna Hazare at the time when his health condition was actually deteriorating after 12 days of fast. There is a ray of hope in the citizens of this country that every citizen would be watchful in every formation of Bill or Act in the parliament in future.  Cynics and critics would say that this is a sheer black-mailing, but the reality is that every citizen is rendered helpless in the hands of politicians who were displaying hegemonism in every act of theirs.  A lot more needs to be done, we have to wait and watch! Finally, a sense of good will prevailed!  

you are right amish sir,thanks for referral.

you are right amish sir,thanks for referral.

Yawn!.......... Time to go to sleep. Had a overdose of this Anna pills.

A soldier who fought the war, now is leading a fight against corruption. His 3 point agenda to end the fast is something simple that the politicians can do. He is not asking for mountains to be moved. And he is protesting after suffering treachery twice in the past by the same politicians. So why not this protest? He has all the fundamental right to protest as everybody. We should look also at what the govt. could do and have not done. And in summation we require the menace of corruption to end. So why not support him? 

Mr. Muralidharan thank you once again for a beautiful insight.  You raised some valid questions.  Yes,  statutory bodies are there but ultimately the Govts. have to appoint  heads of these institutions.  Taking advantage of this, successive Govts. are making them worthless.  At the same time effectiveness of  these institutions are more or less dependent on the personalities heading these institutions.  As Mr. Muralidharan said people come to know about Election Commission and its powers only during the regime of T.N.Seshan.  Govt. tried its best to neutralize the powers of EC and succeeded even. Everybody knows about the recent CVC controversy.  

A section of people are opposing the way Anna leading the tide, they even branding him as blackmailer.  

Here, I completely agree with Mr. Niliesh.  As Mr. Nilesh said the  "the hard way came from the historic evidences, the way it handled so far".  There may be differences of opinion on Anna's way of dealing this issue, but the cause is genuine we must support him.  

Again the enforcement is undoubtedly the key factor.  What is the mechanism for it.  People cant come out every time to put pressure on Govt.  I will be glad if some one could suggest the mechanism for enforcement instead of criticising Anna.

Anna? Atleast his team not want the the bill to come through. For they will lose their moments in the sun.

There are many ways to look at it. But the need-of-hour is we need a strong anti-corruption laws to deter it. We may not be able to make it 100% clean, but certainly can be reduced to a great extent, if laws are stringent. Today, bureaucrats & politicians are not afraid of law, and hence they r more-n-more arrogant & corrupt. Anna's arguments are indeed right on how many corrupt bureaucrats & politicians are jailed till now? They exploit the loopholes in the laws and pull the case till end of their life, and spend life respectfully inside the society.

There can be diff of opinions on Anna's ways but isn't the demands are genuine? The hard way came from the historic evidences, the way it handled so far. Even after 42 years govt doesn't want to expedite it. So, are we willing to wait for another 4-5 decades? Isn't the urgency is invited by government only? If govt would have acted on time, Anna wouldn't have hardened like this. Contrary to it, govt is not even agreeing to discuss upon it in parliament, which clearly shows the intent, forget passing and committing so to Anna committing.

For that matter BJP is trying to get that extra mile outside the parliemant and making mess inside.

So at this moment, I think we have only option to support Anna.

Anna Hazare is holding a gun to the head of parliament. He no longer wants the government to move a resolution in parliament. Now he wants the government to ensure that this resolution is passed. Does any government have any control over parliament?

At least there should be a strong Lokpal Bill covering the important factors. To me Anna seems to be adamant in nature.

Whatever seems to be important to him or his associates should there be in bill that is the reason he is not breaking his fast and I think blackmailing the government. 

Our Experience of all Too powerful laws of the country ensures your fears more than your suggestion will come true in due course. Any law with prejudice built in will lead to favoritism and corruption. Eg. Pota & TADA