Chickens of chicanery

The twain were never destined to meet and it comes as no surprise that the inevitable falling out has happened in so dramatic a manner. Ever since the Government capitulated before the self-appointed representatives of the so-called ‘civil society’ following Anna Hazare’s much-publicised — or, rather, televised — fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi and accepted the demand for setting up a ‘Joint Drafting Committee’, a first of its kind, to draft the Lok Pal Bill, those in favour of an all-powerful ombudsman with sweeping powers over one and all have been coming up with clauses that are patently unacceptable for a variety of reasons, not the least because they impinge on the rights of the executive and legislature as defined by the Constitution.

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