IAC seeking public opinion in favour of its version of Lokpal Bill
NEW DELHI: Anna Hazare team today initiated a “referendum” on the law in Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency represented by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, seeking to galvanise public opinion in favour of its version of Lokpal Bill.
The team of ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC) surveyed ten localities in Chandni Chowk and distributed a two-page questionnaire having eight questions to voters in the constituency. It is expected that the Hazare team will cover the entire constituency by Sunday.
“Our volunteers will visit houses, leave the questionnaire and collect it two days later. There will be eight questions, including whether the Prime Minister should be brought under Lokpal,” said Activist Arvind Kejriwal.
He said they will be approaching around seven lakh house-holds in Chandni Chowk constituency from where Sibal had won. “He is the government’s face of Lokpal. So we decided to hold the referendum in his constituency.
If the people, he said, votes for the civil society version, then they will ask Sibal whether he will go by the party High Command or people’s wishes.
They expect to publish the results by July 27. The survey sheets will be “optical mark recognition (OMR)” sheets which will be tabulated using computers.
