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Jan Lokpal Movement

Books

How Anna Hazare’s 2011 anti-corruption movement led by Arvind Kejriwal could have helped Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha election

Rahul Roushan - 3 April, 2021

While the movement around Jan Lokpal Bill is widely acknowledged to have hurt Congress, the original plans might have been different.

News Reports

‘Lokpal bill movement led by elites like Kejriwal and Sisodia will create a parallel govt’: When Arundhati Roy made sense a decade ago

OpIndia Staff - 18 February, 2021

Arundhati Roy had also said in the interview with Sagarika Ghose that leaders that led the Lokpal movement ran foreign funded NGOs

Arvind Kejriwal and the political philosophy behind his lies

Ashish Shukla - 7 June, 2019

When a politician is caught in his lies, he pays for it either with apology or punishment or both. There is both shame and consequences involved. In Arvind Kejriwal’s case, it’s neither

Government and Policy

Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose appointed as the first Lokpal of India

OpIndia Staff - 19 March, 2019

India's first Lokpal Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose is a member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) at present, who had retired from Supreme Court in May 2017

News Reports