Lokpal Bill
：Anna's Movement that Shook India
Publication subTitle ：Anna's Movement that Shook India
Author： Sahai Sashi B.
Publisher： Kalpaz Publications
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9789351288640
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9788178359472
Subject： D73/77 National Politics
Keyword： 各国政治
Language： ENG
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Description
This book is about A former college teacher in the cheauered economics, an Ex-Director General of Police and a retired IPS officer, Shashi B Sahai is a voracious reader and a prolific writer. Apart from writing in numerous journals, magazines and newspapers over the years, he has authored the following books on contemporary affairs published by a reputed Delhi publisher: history of Lok Pal bill hybernaiing in the cold storage of Parliament for over forty two years. It is about how a little great Gandhian from the little known village Relegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), Anna Hazare, brought up the issue of Lok Pal as an antidote against rampaging corruption to the forefront of national attention. It is about how Anna's raging and tearing crusade I against widespread corruption staring April 2011 hogged the lime light in electronic and print media and garnered public attention as no other event in recent times. And how the political power wielders betrayed the cause by evading to install a meaningful watch-dog body like Lok Pal over themselves. In the light of Lord Acton's classic dictum “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” an ombudsman to oversee the wielders of power was necessary to put a brake on wide ranging corruption. The book provides a blow by blow account of the high voltage drama in the name of Lok Pal staged from April to the end of December 2011 without the institution coming into being. And more- the beginnings of corruption in public life, history
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