Right to Information activist Arvind Kejriwal has been in the forefront of the massively publicised movement to demand a Lokpal Bill.

A close associate of Gandhian Anna Hazare, Kejriwal has staunchly defended the movement and rebuffed many allegations made against civil society activists by the ruling Congress party. He has also taken on senior Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh and Pranab Mukherjee who had taken pot shots at Hazare's movement.

Kejriwal's work for greater transparency in government had fetched him the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006.

As a representative of the civil society in the Joint Drafting Committee of the Lokpal Bill, Kejriwal has been privy to the many rounds of negotiations and behind-the-scenes discussions between the government and civil society activists.

Why have the Centre and civil activists failed to agree on the Lokpal Bill? What are the major points of agreement and disagreement? What is the way forward for this path-breaking bill?

After Union Minister SalmanKhursheed, a government interlocutor in the Lokpal talks, Kejriwal will now answer these and many more questions on the Rediff Lokpal Chat on June 22, 2011, at 3 pm IST. So log in with your questions, doubts and suggestions about the movement that has shaken up the world's largest democracy.

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