Sisodia said that as per the government's Bill, the same politicians who are alleged to be corrupt would appoint the Lokpal and “the same CBI, which is known to be making compromises, would probe the complaints.”
In the selection and removal of the Lokpal, slightly more weightage has been given to the opposition rather than the government, but even with this, the appointment and removal of the Lokpal remains under the control of the political class who usually would have the same vested interest to have a weak and pliable Lokpal, he said.
In total, it is not the same Bill which the Prime Minister had promised to get passed, and the one which Rajniti Prasad had tore on December 29 last year, he said.
“We are now witnessing an unseemly spectacle in Parliament with the Congress and the BJP fighting to claim credit for passing this farcical Jokepal bill, with or without the cosmetic amendments of the select committee.
“In either case, it would remain a far cry from the Jan Lokpal bill which had been drafted by Team Anna and for which Anna had fasted at Ramlila maidan,” the party said in a statement.
The party said we had realised more than a year ago that these corrupt parties like the Congress and the BJP were not going to allow any independent and credible Lokpal which would “send half of their ministers and many of their leaders to jail”, the statement said.
That is why we had to form a political party, realising that we will need to be in the legislatures to get the Jan Lokpal bill passed.
“No amount of fasting and protests will force these parties to do what the country really needs. While expressing our full support for the cause for which Anna is fasting, we call upon him to give up his fast and join the resurgent civil society movement for an electoral revolution in the country which promises to bring about the revolutionary changes in the democratic, electoral and anti corruption system in the country,” it said.
