Civil society's challenge

Given the widespread support received by the campaign for the Jan Lokpal Bill, the Congress has discovered a new threat in civil society - not just to its own existence but, by the hyperbolic extension typical of the 'Indira is India' mindset, to democracy and the Indian state's stability. Therefore, it is busy marshalling all its resources to draw a Lakshman rekha, which defines limits - thus far and no further - for civil society organisations (CSO). 

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