The Anti-Anna Celebrities - Page 7
Rahul Bose
Mahesh Bhatt , filmmaker
Anurag Kashyap
Ram Gopal Verma wonders that how many of the nationwide supporters of Anna if given power themselves will not become corrupt and also asserts that , "Even if I am starving to death I will never fast unto death.
model turned actress Jacqueline:"I just got to know that Anna's supporters were protesting outside Mahesh Bhatt's residence. Honestly, I find all of this hypocrisy. I don't support Anna and I don't want to get politically involved in all this. However, I do strongly feel that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. So, I've been worried ever since I heard about Anna's supporters gathering at Bhattsaab's residence. As I stay all alone in Mumbai, I understand that I need to be more careful and wouldn't like myself to get politically involved"
Aruna Roy -- a member of National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) claimed that the public support to the ongoing movement was because most of the people did not understand what it really meant.
Accusing key Anna aide Arvind Kejriwal of hijacking the issue from NCPRI, Roy said, "The Jan Lokpal debate actually came out of a National Campaign for People's Right to Information special meeting convened at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library last year in which NCPRI made Arvind the convener of a group that was to look at the whistleblower's bill and other accountability provisions necessary to stop the killing of RTI activists. This happened sometime in September 2010."
"Arvind then broke off and formed the India against Corruption without consultation of the NCPRI or the MKSS, which are my parent bodies. After forming India Against Corruption he wanted us to join India Against Corruption at which point the MKSS made it very clear that we would not join a campaign in which other secular and organizations which have been working for corruption were not members. There were people from religious organizations, she added.
Arundhati Roy slammed Hazare's proposed Jan Lokpal Bill as "draconian", claiming that it would create two oligarchies, instead of just one with its powers to police everybody from the prime minister to the lowest government official.
Rahul Gandhi, a ruling congress Party MP says that Anna Hazare hunger strike undermines democracy
Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP claims that the Lokpal bill as omnipotent and Anna Hazare's detention over a week ago was "unwise" and adds that a strong Lokpal was needed, but "a large, omnipotent and unaccountable supra-institution" can itself fall prey to corruption.
Digvijay Singh , Congress General Secretary says that the mobilization for Jan Lokpal Bill has been very large, but the gain from it won't be commensurate.