Even as the area around Parliament was swamped by crowds of Anna Hazare’s supporters, demanding a stronger Lokpal Bill on Wednesday, a small group of environmental activists staged their own demonstration against a different bill, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2011. [...] Activists say that since the Science and Technology Ministry’s Biotechnology Department is mandated to promote the technology, it would be a conflict of interest if it was also responsible for regulating it and ensuring biotech safety.