I do not believe that four or five persons or a single NGO can claim to be better informed and be the sole repository of all knowledge.
ContextLokpal bill, electoral reforms, judicial reforms. Ms. Soni was asked to comment on the comments of Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's (member of Citizens group affiliated to Mr. Anna Hazare's movement for Lokpal Bill) comments.
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What Ms. Soni said is correct. This can happen sometimes: Over-active or overzealous citizens can start bullying and prodding the Government to force it implement their demands and wishes. This can lead to a situation which can evolve as some sort of 'aristocracy' or plutocracy. Ramdev's actions, campaigns and threats would have lead to mobocracy or ochlocracy.
Preserving democracy, howsoever defective and dubious it may be, is as important as initiating Lokpal Bill and eradicating corruption.
We have, however, a snag here. Ms. Ambika Soni is not the right person to say that a handful of persons cannot interfere into the administration of the Government and enforce their wishes. She has the notoriety of being the member of the coterie which ruled the roost during the emergency of the 1974-77 period. She was said to have controlled India by becoming an extra-Constitutional Authority and Power through the Sanjay Gandhi-Indira Gandhi route.
She seems to be repeating her past coterie steps. Ms. Sonia Gandhi is apparently not averse to the coterie culture of the emergency period.
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