Controversies to Malign Image of Civil Society Members?

    On 5th April, 2011 Anna Hazare protested against Indian Government through fast unto death, on to its failure to implement Lokpal Bill, which was hanging for forty long years period, as it was not pass in spite of presented eight times, but Anna Hazare wanted instead of Government Lokpal Bill which as per his opinion has no teeth or nails to punish tainted leaders, ministers and bureaucrats, so he wanted Jan Lokpal Bill and it should be drafted by joint committee members, representative by half the members from government side and half from civil society, plus head of joint committee should be from civil society. On 9th April, 2011 Government accepted all his demands, thus joint committee constituted -
Government representatives –

• Pranab Mukherjee (President)
• P. Chidambaram
• Veerappa Moily
• Kapil Sibal
• Salman Khursheed

Civil Society members –

• Anna Hazare
• N. Santosh Hegde
• Shanti Bhushan ( Co President)
• Prashant Bhushan
• Arvind Kejariwal

but on the very fast day from its inception, civil society members getting fingers pointing towards them, as when name declared of civil society members Swami Ramdev raise his objection that in the five members team two are father and son, which encourages nepotism, then later on he retracts from his words and said his words were presented wrongly, he fully support anti corruption movement of Anna Hazare and has no differences’ what so ever with Anna Hazare or other members of civil society.
   Within time span of mere one week controversial stories relating to the members becoming news, it may be to malign the image of members of civil society plus it may have support of some section in the power, but certainly efforts are on to derail the anti corruption campaign, which got over whelming support from countless Indians. The controversial stories that has become talk of the town among every section of society are –

• Shanti Bhushan – CD released by former Samajwadi party General Secretary Amar Singh, it contains telephonic conversation of Mulyam Singh, Amar Singh and Shanti Bhushan, in which Shanti Bhushan is talking to give 40 million rupees to judge for fixing a case, but as per words of Shanti Bhushan he never met Amar Singh, when asked from Amar Singh about the authenticity of CD, Amar Singh deny to respond, but as per civil society members reaction on CD they said that CD is doctored and six parts are tempered as it is prove by Hyderabad Truth Lab and American Forensic Lab, so all around there is confusion in the air and who is right or wrong but certainly targeting Shanti Bhushan who is co president of Joint drafting committee of Lokpal Bill, his image is malign by this so called CD.
• Anti Corruption Campaign of Anna Hazare – Congress Party General Secretary Dig Vijay Singh in a statement on Saturday said that socialists had spent on anti corruption campaign 5 million rupees but Arvind Kejariwal on Sunday said Dig Vijay Singh’s stats are wrong and they spent on the campaign 3.2 million rupees, while talking to media persons he said on our four days movement we had not spent 5 million rupees, perhaps he have not read our release details. We had received 8.2 million rupees and had spent 3.2 million rupees in the last four months time, it included money spent on different places including six to seven lakhs of rupees at Mumbai, it was needed response from our side as Dig Vijay Singh said if socialists can spend 5 million rupees then why they are targeting leaders?
• Anna Hazare – As per news corruption case against Anna Hazare in the year 2005, in which Justice Sawant investigation reports declared Anna guilty of corruption, is soon going to hit news, to tarnish his image, if he himself is guilty of corruption, then his own image is not clean on to the corruption movement.

So for civil society members days ahead are not rosy, and they are bound to get lot of negative stories about them, just to defame them and try to derail there anti corruption movement, it will be interesting to see how they get rid from these fake or true stories?