Praful Bidwai - Tag - Anna HazareThis is the official home page of Praful Bidwai.2019-07-16T21:40:53+02:00urn:md5:ca99418856c258681c60a148f375f6dfDotclearAnna’s problematic agenda: End of a grave crisisurn:md5:bc4d17904dfa85d58afbc13d6455dc1a2011-09-05T22:04:00+02:00adminAnna HazareCasteCorruptionSocial Movements<p><em>Team Anna must show some humility instead of imposing its will on society. It doesn’t hold a monopoly on understanding how to make governance more inclusive, clean and people-responsive. It must recognise that, finally, it is Parliament that prevailed on the Lokpal legislative process, and that’s how things should be, says Praful Bidwai.</em></p> <p>(Published on rediff.com)
by Praful Bidwai
September 05, 2011
Team Anna must show some humility instead of imposing its will on society. It doesn’t hold a monopoly on understanding how to make governance more inclusive, clean and people-responsive. It must recognise that, finally, it is Parliament that prevailed on the Lokpal legislative... <em><a href="http://www.prafulbidwai.org/index.php?post/2011/09/05/Anna%E2%80%99s-problematic-agenda%3A-End-of-a-grave-crisis">Read</em> Anna’s problematic agenda: End of a grave crisis</a></p>Right-Wing Gains From The Jan Lokpal Campaign: The politics of Anna’s fasturn:md5:f22acbff19046ace918c272d28e1d7952011-08-26T23:15:00+02:00adminAnna HazareCorruptionHindutvaLokpal<p><em>No government in India has bent over backwards to please a civil society campaign as much as the Manmohan Singh government, in respect of the Jan Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill, drafted by a small group of people, including Anna Hazare, nominated by an NGO called India against Corruption (IAC). And no single individual’s act has recently attracted as much popular support as Mr Hazare’s fast for passing the Bill on terms dictated by him by an impossibly short deadline.</em></p> <p>carried in The Kashmir Times, Lokma...
By Praful Bidwai
No government in India has bent over backwards to please a civil society campaign as much as the Manmohan Singh government, in respect of the Jan Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill, drafted by a small group of people, including Anna Hazare, nominated by an NGO called India against Corruption (IAC).... <em><a href="http://www.prafulbidwai.org/index.php?post/2011/08/30/Right-Wing-Gains-From-The-Jan-Lokpal-Campaign%3A-The-politics-of-Anna%E2%80%99s-fast">Read</em> Right-Wing Gains From The Jan Lokpal Campaign: The politics of Anna’s fast</a></p>Corruption and the Lokpal issueurn:md5:1ab083e5591b9dfb996b1fab9925fc992011-08-25T22:09:00+02:00adminAnna HazareCorruptionNeoliberalismSocial Movements<p><em>Corruption doesn’t occur primarily, as Team Anna holds, because there’s a “lack of an independent, empowered, … anti-corruption institution”. The real reasons include a neoliberal policy regime that encourages privatisation of common property resources through sweetheart deals and a politician-bureaucrat-businessman nexus; the rise of greedy entrepreneurs; an increasingly compromised civil service; poorly monitored public service delivery; and a dysfunctional justice delivery system.</em></p> <p>Special to ‘Financial Chronicle’, 25 August 2011
by Praful Bidwai
The government seems to be yielding ground to Anna Hazare’s campaign on the Jan Lokpal Bill. On the eighth day of his hunger strike, it conceded his demand to bring the Prime Minister under the legislation’s purview and Manmohan Singh wrote to him, urging him to end his fast... <em><a href="http://www.prafulbidwai.org/index.php?post/2011/08/25/Corruption-and-the-Lokpal-issue">Read</em> Corruption and the Lokpal issue</a></p>