Representatives of ‘civil society' in the Lok Pal Bill drafting committee increasingly appear to be no different from those whom they berate and ridicule. One thing is truly shocking about the Mayawati Government’s allotment of two 10,000 square metre farmhouse plots to Supreme Court lawyer Shanti Bhushan and his son Jayant, and it is amazing that no political party or civil society activist has taken note of it. The Rashtriya Lok Dal of Mr Ajit Singh, and the Samajwadi Party of Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, which draw their strength from middle farmer beneficiaries of zamindari abolition are especially culpable in this respect.