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Are we headed for Dictatorship of Activistocracy?

Section 12 of Hazare’s draft Bill states –

-        Lokpal to be deemed police officer

(1) For the purposes of section 36 of Criminal Procedure Code, the Chairperson,
members of Lokpal and the officers in investigation wing of Lokpal shall be deemed
to be police officers.

(2) While investigating any offence under Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, they
shall be competent to investigate any offence under any other law in the same case.

Section 10.2 of their draft Bill says –

-        We are also deemed judiciary

(2) For the purpose of any such investigation (including the preliminary inquiry) the
Lokpal shall have all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the Code of
Civil Procedure, 1908, in respect of the following matters, namely:-

(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on
oath;

(b) Requiring the discovery and production of any document;

(c) Receiving evidence on affidavits;

(3) Any proceeding before the Lokpal shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding
within the meaning of section 193 of the Indian Penal Code

Lokpal, after getting such enquiries and investigations done as it deems fit, may take
one or more of the following actions:

a. Close the case if prima facie, the complaint is not made out or

b. Initiate prosecution against public servants as well as those private entities which
are party to the act

c. Order imposition of appropriate penalties under CCS Conduct Rules Provided that
if an officer is finally convicted under Prevention of Corruption Act, major penalty of
dismissal shall be imposed on such government servant.

d. Order cancellation or modification of a license or lease or permission or contract


or agreement, which was the subject matter of investigation.

e. Blacklist the concerned firm or company or contractor or any other entity involved
in that act of corruption.
Civil group’s version of the Lokpal Bill, arrogates to themselves unbridled powers of
parliament, police, CBI, CAG, judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one as
shown above and essentially renders the Indian Parliament, the highest democratic
institution of the country with powers to impeach judges and even the President of
India, totally redundant and selling gullible idiots in the nation the lemon that what the
nation’s investigating agencies, police, parliament and judiciary have failed to do,
Lokpal can and will do – impeach judges and Presidents for dessert even as they
punish politicians and bureaucrats for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Such was the
media-instigated hysteria over the fasting Gandhi cap that the nation collectively put
its brain to sleep. Subjecting the components that will go to make the Lokpal to
intense scrutiny is in order. The core components of the Lokpal are –

-        Who are the people constituting Anna Hazare’s drafting committee which will
draft the Lokpal Bill

-        The law itself (assuming the Bill is passed by a frightened and cowering
parliament) and its provisions

-        Members of Lokpal who will enforce and implement the law

-        The selection panel which will appoint the all-important members of the Lokpal

The melodrama has already turned to farce with Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Co.
bickering fiercely over who should form part of the drafting committee and who
should become members of the supra-god selection panel which will select members
who will constitute the Lokpal. We have already seen the relevant sections of
Hazare’s draft Bill which confers upon some of our foreign-funded activists who
aspire to become Lokpal Members, the high status of deemed police and deemed
judiciary. Now the norms for constituting the selection panel which will appoint the
members is even more of a give-away of what really is the real intention behind this
melodrama to pass the Lokpal Bill. Hazare, Kejriwal, Agnivesh and co. have listed -

-        The Chairpersons of both Houses of Parliament

-        Two senior most judges of Supreme Court

-        Two senior most Chief Justices of High Courts

-        All Nobel Laureates of Indian Origin

-        Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission

-        Last two Magsaysay Award winners of Indian origin

-        Comptroller and Auditor General of India

-        Chief Election Commissioner

-        Bharat Ratna Award winners


Considering the sweeping powers that Hazare, Agnivesh, Kejriwal, etc want for the
Lokpal,and considering that the Lokpal wants to be judge, jury, police and parliament
in their dealings with politicians, bureaucrats and judges, to insist on foreign entities
having a say in constituting the Selection Panel must cause grave disquiet in every
thinking nationalist mind. Amartya Sen is married to Emma Rothschild who is a
member of the Rothschild banking family in England, while the Magsaysay Award
has a direct Rockefeller connection.

The Magsaysay award may sound Asian because it is named after the late Ramon
Magsaysay of the Philippines, but the award is all American and the money
component of the award is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Vigil book on
NGOs exposed the intent behind the selection of persons for the Magsaysay award.
Like the Nobel peace Prize, the Magsaysay too, no matter for what reason and in
which category it is awarded, is political in its ultimate intent. To have a Rothschild
and Rockefeller connection to the Lokpal no matter how distant and how remote, is
still nothing to laugh about. AND lastly who are the last 2 winners of the Magsaysay
Award, Kejriwal, P Sainath, Deep Joshi and Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte.
What background the last 4 have in any of the issues raised by Vocal minority
activists is a mystery?

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