Prashant Bhushan speaks to Rediff.com To think that the Lokpal will become a superpower or Frankenstein monster is not the correct understanding.
Today, the police or the Central Bureau of Investigation can investigate any Indian. The Income Tax department can prosecute anybody and everybody. Therefore, (compared to them) the Lokpal will have limited powers. The Supreme Court, today, has hundred times more power than what the Lokpal will have. Our Supreme Court can squash any law, can issue any direction to the government, can prosecute or jail anybody. But, nobody calls the Supreme Court a Frankenstein monster. In fact, we have been campaigning from day one that the Supreme Court has to be accountable also. But these people want the Supreme Court to get away without any accountability, which is hundred times more powerful than the Lokpal. In fact, the Lokpal's only power is to investigate people for corruption. Calling the Lokpal a superpower or that it is a danger to democracy seems to me that people have lost the wood for the trees. Merely because people like Aruna Roy are saying these things, it has become fashionable without understanding what it means. Source: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-an-interview-with-anna-hazares-aide-prashant-bhushan/20110823.htm
