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Her decision reflects the growing disillusionment of civil society leaders with the government after having helped shape Congress’s social welfare agenda.

Noted activist aruna roy's statements against Anna Hazare's campaign has angered some of her erstwhile supporters, who called her non-Indian, arrogant and a Congress supporter on Saturday.

NAC member aruna roy, who had criticised Anna Hazare's protest on Lokpal Bill, met the Gandhian at Ramlila Maidan where he is on an indefinite fast.

National Advisory Committee member aruna roy, who had criticized Anna Hazare’s protest against the Lokpal Bill, met the Gandhian at Ramlila Maidan on Wednesday where he is on an indefinite fast.

Magsaysay Award winner aruna roy has said the Mangalore region had astonishing greenery and bio-diversity that would all be destroyed if industry and petrochemicals were permitted to acquire agricultural land for development.

Demanding that the Citizen’s Charter and Grievance Redressal Bill be tabled immediately in Parliament, the aruna roy-led National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) made it clear that it was opposed to grievance redressal mechanism being under the ambit of the Lokpal as sought by Team Anna.

Social activist aruna roy and Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan activist Nikhil Dey have announced a daylong protest on August 6 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi against the proposed amendment of RTI Act to keep political parties out of its ambit.

Expressing her support for the Mumbai girls who were arrested for protesting against a city bandh on Facebook, MKSS' aruna roy on Friday said that state repression had become more "audacious" in recent times.

Activists aruna roy, Nikhil Dey and a host of others have threatened to begin a strong people's movement against undermining the social audit of NREGS in the state.

Rahul Gandhi stepped in to take charge in a time of crisis with National Advisory Council member and vocal critic of the Jan Lokpal Bill, aruna roy, meeting the Congress general secretary on Monday to brief him on their proposal on the Grievance Redressal Bill.

Social activist aruna roy criticised the Centre for the questioning of RTI activists about their ideology and political leanings before their participation in a one-day seminar to mark 10 years of RTI in New Delhi on Friday.

The AAP government's 33-hour dharna came in for fresh criticism from social activist aruna roy who said an elected government should not resort to street protests.

Social activist aruna roy has resigned from the advisory board of Tehelka Foundation.

National Advisory Council (NAC) member aruna roy lashed out at the Planning Commission's new criteria for poverty line submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

aruna roy-led National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) has supported the grievance redressal bill with some reservations.

Describing the covert way in which the RTI amendments had been introduced by the government as a "trivialization of democracy" activist aruna roy said that political parties had lost a historical opportunity to appear transparent.

NAC member and MKSS leader aruna roy on Friday shot off a scathing letter to the finance ministry objecting to "talk" of subsidy cuts for the poor while funding programmes like Aadhar that have no legislative backing.

The aruna roy-led National Campaign for People's Right to Information on Saturday described activist Anna Hazare's resolve to continue his fast till Parliament passed his version of the Lokpal bill as "dangerous"’ and "undemocratic".

Stating the “urban Naxal” tag is an attempt to divide people and curb dissent, activists and leaders, including Arundhati Roy, Jignesh Mewani and aruna roy, led a protest on Thursday against the arrest of five human rights activists by the Maharashtra police for alleged Maoist links.

While the Centre and Team Anna are playing ping-pong with the draft Lokpal Bill, social activist and National Advisory Council member aruna roy said she doesn’t agree with both drafts and has her own suggestions.

The public standoff between aruna roy and Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal became personal with Roy taking exception to Kejriwal’s statement that he was turned away from a meeting set up to discuss the Lokpal bill.

Members of aruna roy and Nikhil Dey’s Soochana Evam Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan were allegedly attacked in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar by a BJP MLA and his supporters on Saturday.

The recently notified rules for the Right to Information Act have made filing applications more difficult and defeat the basic spirit of the transparency legislation, National Advisory Council member aruna roy has told ET.

Activist aruna roy has sought UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s intervention to end the fast undertaken by fellow activist Medha Patkar in Mumbai to protest the demolition of slums.

Taking a strong exception to payment of wages less than the prevailing minimum wage in the state for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers, Magsaysay awardee and member of the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) aruna roy has appealed to members of the council for strong action to ensure justice for the workers.

Two youths who fasted for 11 days in Chennai to express solidarity with anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, on Thursday asked activist aruna roy for protection to carry on the campaign as they felt disturbed by the murder of seasoned RTI activist Shehla Masood.

Concerned over exclusion of CBI from the ambit of RTI, NAC member aruna roy raised the matter in the council meeting and met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi separately to press the issue.

Roy was speaking at a seminar organised by Progressive Forum State Committee in the city on Monday.