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New Delhi: Writer Arundhati Roy on Tuesday castdoubts over Anna Hazare's anti-graft campaign saying the civilsociety's Jan Lokpal Bill is a "dangerous piece oflegislation".
"I am sceptical about the legislation (Jan Lokpal Bill)itself for a good number of reasons. I think the legislationis a dangerous piece of work," Roy said a news channel in aninterview.
Alleging that the civil society used public anger intheir favour, the Booker Prize winner novelist said "You(civil society) used the real and legitimate anger of thepeople against corruption to push through this specific pieceof legislation which is very regressive. It could have turnedfrom something inclusive to destructive and dangerous."
Calling the Hazare-led movement a "copy book World Bankagenda", Roy said "It was an NGO-driven movement by KiranBedi, (Arvind) Kejriwal and (Manish) Sisodia.
"Three of them run NGOs and all the three core teammembers are Magsaysay Award winners... World Bank and FordFoundation fund the anti-corruption campaigns. This is copybook World Bank agenda though they might have not meant it."
The writers said "Anna Hazare was picked up and proppedup as the saint for the masses. He was not the brain behindthe movement. We really need to be worry about it."
She also said the Hazare-led movement was not the samething as a people's movement and accused the media ofengineering it.
"Obviously people joined in but all of them were notmiddle class and many came for a sort of reality show wellorchestrated by media campaigns," she said.
"For a nation of one billion people, the media did notfind anything else to report. Certain major TV channelscampaigned for said to be doing so. That's a kind ofcorruption for me at first place," she said.
"If it was only for TPR then why not to settle forpornography or something which gives more TRP?" she asked.
"I am sceptical about the legislation (Jan Lokpal Bill)itself for a good number of reasons. I think the legislationis a dangerous piece of work," Roy said a news channel in aninterview.
Alleging that the civil society used public anger intheir favour, the Booker Prize winner novelist said "You(civil society) used the real and legitimate anger of thepeople against corruption to push through this specific pieceof legislation which is very regressive. It could have turnedfrom something inclusive to destructive and dangerous."
Calling the Hazare-led movement a "copy book World Bankagenda", Roy said "It was an NGO-driven movement by KiranBedi, (Arvind) Kejriwal and (Manish) Sisodia.
"Three of them run NGOs and all the three core teammembers are Magsaysay Award winners... World Bank and FordFoundation fund the anti-corruption campaigns. This is copybook World Bank agenda though they might have not meant it."
The writers said "Anna Hazare was picked up and proppedup as the saint for the masses. He was not the brain behindthe movement. We really need to be worry about it."
She also said the Hazare-led movement was not the samething as a people's movement and accused the media ofengineering it.
"Obviously people joined in but all of them were notmiddle class and many came for a sort of reality show wellorchestrated by media campaigns," she said.
"For a nation of one billion people, the media did notfind anything else to report. Certain major TV channelscampaigned for said to be doing so. That's a kind ofcorruption for me at first place," she said.
"If it was only for TPR then why not to settle forpornography or something which gives more TRP?" she asked.
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