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Former Army chief General VK Singh went to Hazare’s village in December 2013 and talked of “some people who made political gains from Hazare and then deserted him”, but later he himself joined the BJP and successfully contested two Lok Sabha elections from Ghaziabad. The movement showed the power of civil society, but the quest for a Lokpal dates back to the Sixties. In two volumes, Rajeev Dhavan, senior coque iphone deux parties advocate in the Supreme Court and dedicated human rights activist, answers every question related to the anti corruption ombudsman and the Anna movement that forced the Union government to enact the law. The first volume, The Lokpal Idea: 1963 2010, looks at ombudsmen across the world, while the second volume follows the story coque samsung galaxy s4 cheval of Hazare coque galaxy s6 lacoste and the Lokpal Bill from 2010 contemporary history that is unputdownable. 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He writes, “Where political society consists of arbitrary rulers who claim divine right or defend totalitarian rule as necessitous, civil society is oppressed and suppressed with savagery no less in our time than in any other.” Showing how easily secular democracy can be destroyed, he continues, “It is civil society that has risen to challenge autocracy and the suppression of free speechThe purpose of dissent, disobedience and activism is not only to enable electoral democracy to work, but also to enable people coque iphone 5c zizi to confront those in power in civil and political society, and thereby profoundly affect the very structure of power.” Minutely detailed chapters like ‘August of Kranti’, ‘Come September and Beyond’, ‘The Denouncement’, ‘Parting of Ways’ and ‘Anna’s Legacies’ coque iphone xr rouge apple are of great interest for students of this civil society initiative. It is also a concise history of a government system which has failed to deliver, coque galaxy a8 rigide making corruption and maladministration the biggest challenges after poverty. Dhavan follows the Lokpal journey from the Sixties, analysing the role of each of its players governments, ministers, protesters, political parties and sparing none, from Anna to Shanti coque iphone 5s hibiscus and Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal and Ramdev. bijoux personnalise While the Act specifies that not less than 50 per cent of the members of Lokpal shall be from the scheduled castes and tribes, Other Backward Classes, minorities and women, Dhavan terms this reservation as “cumbersome”. The Lokpal and Lokayukta Act 2013 got presidential assent in early 2014, but the Lokpal chairperson and members were only appointed in March 2019, after intervention by the Supreme Court and contempt of court proceedings filed by the NGO Common Cause. 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