Arvind Kejriwal at IIT Madras<\/figcaption><\/figure>Kejriwal also alleged that the ministers are threatening to “crush Anna the way they crushed Baba Ramdev”<\/em>. He repudiated the bill drafted by the government. “Just like the CBI Lokpal will be a puppet in the hands of central government”<\/em>, he said.<\/p>Responding to the sharp criticism of the “Jan Lokpal”<\/em> bill by the Congress party he said, “An impression is being given that anything which is not in the control of government is a parallel government. That is not right.”<\/em><\/p>On the question of the Prime Minister being brought under the purview of Lokpal he said, “I dread if tomorrow Madhu Koda becomes the Prime Minister of this country.”<\/em> He also added that keeping PM outside the ambit of Lokpal would be constitutionally untenable.<\/p>Kejriwal blamed the government for depicting Lokpal as a “Frankenstein monster and a threat to democracy”<\/em>. The reason, he said, the MPs are not willing to consider civil society version of Lokpal is that “half of them would be in jail”<\/em> if the legislation is passed.<\/p>The Right to Information trailblazer also extolled the common sense of villagers where as chided the intellectuals who “are very confused set of people because they read too much.”<\/em><\/p>Pushkin Shivam is a student of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT-M. He has reported on a wide range of issues including CWG games fiasco, India-US youth dialogue, protests against corruption in India, Sadhvi Pragya in prison, Mumbai bomb blasts. He briefly interviewed the Dalai Lama, gained access to a prison to show how five year old children are forced to live there.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Pushkal Shivam:Award winning social activist and civil society member Arvind Kejriwal urged the youth of Chennai to shut down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12925,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31172],"tags":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/s3.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07003242\/Arvind-Kejriwal.jpg","post_raw":0,"view_count":"29","prompt":"Shut Down The City For One Week: Kejriwal To Youth Of Chennai","like":{"total":null},"campaigns":{"pre":"","before":"","after":"","middle":""},"featured_image_srcset":["https:\/\/s3.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07003242\/Arvind-Kejriwal-330x215.jpg 330w"," https:\/\/s3.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07003242\/Arvind-Kejriwal.jpg 357w"],"block":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}