'I go back to activism now in a total sense': Aruna Roy

Civil society activist Aruna Roy, who has quit the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) after being upset over minimum wages issue, on Thursday said that she would go back to activism now in a total sense.

Roy, however, she has no differences with the National Advisory Council.

"There are no differences with the National Advisory Council. The (National) Advisory Council is an (National) Advisory Council. It sends what it recommends to the Government of India. What made me become a member of the National Advisory Council was my activism, I go back to activism now in a total sense. Even though I was in National Advisory Council, I still remained an activist and I spoke and critique the government on a number of issues," Roy told ANI here.

"But today, I want to be fully involved with activism because my constituency are the poor of the country and they have a lot of issues, which need total attention. And we want full accountability from the government in the few months that are left to them that they should now give us the Food Security Act. They will have to implement all the accountability legislations and many other pending decisions and we also want guarantee of minimum wages," she added.

Roy has written a letter to Sonia Gandhi requesting that she should not be considered for another term of National Advisory Council that sets the social agenda for the government. Gandhi has accepted her letter of resignation.

The task of the NAC is to provide inputs in the formulation of policy by the government, and to provide support to the government in legislative business.