29 May,2011 08:42 AM IST | | Agencies
While Lokpal Bill joint draft committee member Arvind Kejriwal alleged that vested interests seemed to have ganged up to discredit the proposed legislation by unleashing a sustained campaign to spread misconceptions and falsehood about the Bill, joint drafting committee co-chairman Shanti Bhushan has expressed doubts about its completion by June 30, the deadline set by the government. Bhushan also called the process of drafting the Lokpal Bill "slow".
"You see various articles in the media questioning the Bill and presenting the facts in a manner which the Bill does not talk of," Kejriwal said at a press meet at the Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru, where civil society members in the committee, along with social activists Kiran Bedi and Swami Agnivesh, had an interactive session on Saturday.
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He added that there was a sustained effort to discredit the whole exercise and cited instances of the Bill being projected as "a cure worse than the disease (of corruption)" and as a "threat to democracy". Meanwhile, 5,000 people gathered on Saturday at the National College grounds in Bengaluru's tech hub to extend supportu00a0 and join Hazare's 'second freedom struggle'.
