Re: [HumJanenge] Do we need a Lokpal Bill to remove Ministers ?

Yes I do.

It was brought about formally by the Constituent Assembly of India in
1950, and then effected into law by decisions u/a 142 of the Supreme
Court of India on a series of plaints to it.

Sarbajit

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Rajesh Motwani <motwani2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sarabjit
> do u knw who brought RTI?
> Regds
> Rajesh M
>
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:14 IST Abhijit Mehta wrote:
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>>Mt Friend is China is taking over this country, I don't thing I am complaining. It cant get any worse then where we are.
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>>Now i was made to understand that this a RTI group may we please stick to RTI and all those interested in other stuff may open a new group and take it up there.
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>>If I dare ask an RTI question, does anyone know if the Maharashtra Information commission has hiked the cost of information on a CD from Rs 50/- to Rs/-100?
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>>Regards
>>
>>Abhijit Mehta
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>>
>>The Best Is Yet To Come
>>
>>God Bless
>>
>>On 08-Apr-2011, at 4:56 PM, sarbajit roy wrote:
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>>> Anna Hazare is not the only person to get corrupt Ministers from
>>> Maharashtra removed from office. I also belong to that little club :-)
>>> So let me tell you my story.
>>>
>>> In January 2004 after a chain of incidents which affected me as an
>>> ordinary citizen I filed an RTI (under Delhi Right to Information Act
>>> - there was no NRTI then) to the TRAI (a Central body). They accepted
>>> it after some hesitation and wrangling and I got the inspection I
>>> wanted. Although how I used that information is MY intellectual
>>> property, sufficeth it to say a great deal of pressure was brought
>>> upon me to withdraw my complaint(s) which I did not cow down to, and
>>> finally the PMO had no option but to replace (in all of 4 days) Mr
>>> Pramod Mahajan with Mr Arun Shourie (who incidentally along with his
>>> sidekick Mr Pradeep Baijal) turns out to be an even bigger h**** than
>>> the Hon'ble member from Maharashtra. Incidentally I was assured at the
>>> time (and they stuck to it) that Pramod Mahajan would not rejoin as
>>> Minister for 6 years. I was also assisted by some honest people in
>>> govt to inititiate proceedings (in SC) to recover at least some of the
>>> telecom licence fees which had been "gifted" away to the private
>>> operator. I am glad to say that over Rs. 4,000 crores was levied and
>>> compounded by the errant telcos and so I didn't even have to get my
>>> petition listed.
>>>
>>> The route I took is still open to anyone to use. It is extraordinarily
>>> fast (definitely much much less than 2 years proposed in Jan LokPal
>>> Bill) . All it needs is extraordinary knowledge of law, goivt systems,
>>> processes and human psychology. Like all good things such approaches
>>> can only be appreciated and used by masters. Unfortunately what Anna
>>> Hazare is trying to do is to "dumb it down" like RTI Act (ie hand
>>> AK-47s to goons and morons) so that there will be total anarchy in the
>>> country and his friend's Chinese friends can take this country over.
>>> .
>>> Sarbajit
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