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Chennai: In an apparent criticism of social activist Anna Hazare and his protest for passing Lokpal Bill, National Advisory Committee member Aruna Roy on Thursday said "people cannot make a law" and it had to be done by a drafting committee.
"Law has to be looked at it detail. If you change one comma or one full stop a right becomes no right. People can demand a law, people can say what kind of principle should be in a law... But law cannot be drafted by the people and we can't do the rubber stamp either. We have to set up a drafting committee and it should draft a law," Roy said while delivering a lecture here.
Referring to reported remarks of team Anna member Arvind
Kejriwal that "if Anna says it is the right thing, people will
rubber stamp it," Roy said, "Our argument is that no one
should rubber stamp. "
"We don't mean to say that the three or ten people will be given full authority on what they want in that nor are we saying that people do not have the right to say what they want to say," she said.
Slamming media for making "a black and white debate" reporting on the issue, she questioned "Can we allow the electronic media to take hold the definition of the democracy for us?"
Roy had earlier said Anna Hazare was "ill-advised" in going on the recent fast at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi demanding passage of Lokpal Bill.
PTI
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Something appears to be missing from
Aruna Roy's contention
that 'people cannot make law'. That something is either fact, logic or
vision or a
combination of all. The fact that legislation is forwarded to
Parliament's Standing
Committee to whet it from all angles while objections and suggestions are freely sought
from the
people and experts, would be enough to prove that there is no ban on
people's
participation in making law. The proposed legislation, whether coming
from Government or from the people should mean little to the substance
of the proposed to the legislation. Even when government of the day
railroads laws that
are not palatable to people or a section of it, that section does launch
a
protest movement and Government has to at times forced to make amendment
to
confirm to public demands. The propaganda by UPA that Anna Team cannot
make law
is a blatant lie to hoodwink people into thinking that Anna movement is
against
the very institutions of democracy. It is sad that a mature activist
like Aruna
Roy, clearly incensed at her colleagues stealing the thundered should be
so
shamefacedly projecting her prejudices and bias in front of the TV
audience of discerning
people, who can easily make out that her campaign against Anna team was
deeply personalized
and motivated and lacks the understanding of the tactical moves that
Anna Team
is making to take the entire subject of Jan Lokpal bill from the
reluctant
machinations of the political parties who had not passed the Lokpal bill
for
last 4 decades and will not be ready to pass it for another 4 decades,
unless
some clever tactic like what Anna’s fast is introduced to not only pass
the Jan
Lokpal legislation, but include some bull-dog teeth to its prosecution and implementation authority.
Aruna Roy kept on giving a class-room lecture as to how the bureaucratic route
is sanctified to give each legislation a compulsory and torturous run through
the wringers. It is sad that Aruna Roy and several of the similar activists groups, scorched
by jealousy, have failed to grasp of big picture behind Anna Hazare’s movement.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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People cannot make law: Aruna Roy
Last Updated: Thursday, September 08, 2011, 17:41
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Chennai: In an apparent criticism of social activist Anna Hazare and his protest for passing Lokpal Bill, National Advisory Committee member Aruna Roy on Thursday said "people cannot make a law" and it had to be done by a drafting committee.
"Law has to be looked at it detail. If you change one comma or one full stop a right becomes no right. People can demand a law, people can say what kind of principle should be in a law... But law cannot be drafted by the people and we can't do the rubber stamp either. We have to set up a drafting committee and it should draft a law," Roy said while delivering a lecture here.
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"We don't mean to say that the three or ten people will be given full authority on what they want in that nor are we saying that people do not have the right to say what they want to say," she said.
Slamming media for making "a black and white debate" reporting on the issue, she questioned "Can we allow the electronic media to take hold the definition of the democracy for us?"
Roy had earlier said Anna Hazare was "ill-advised" in going on the recent fast at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi demanding passage of Lokpal Bill.
PTI
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Parliament is where representatives of people gather as legislators on trust to transact everything in good spirit in the interest of people. Therefore, the parliament belongs to people, and it is not a place conquered by MPs for the conduct at their whims and fancies. Similarly parliament is not a place for them NOT TO ACT on anything that the people want them to do. They are intended to act only on the trusted lines. People as a whole, outside, want the JanLokpal bill. Therefore, it is not correct for Ms Roy, or anyone else, to say on lines of her own perception. Anna Hazare is expressing only what people have to say and what people are pressing for to happen in Parliament and as such people team Anna,in that context is supreme over Parliament. INDIA IS REPUBLIC OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE!
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