Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Lok Pal Bill: Government draft on Lokpal Bill excludes PM!

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K. BALCHAND / THE HINDU.

 A graphic presentation showing the differences between Team Anna and the government over the draft Lokpal Bill.
A graphic presentation showing the differences between Team Anna and the government over the draft Lokpal Bill.

The Joint Drafting Committee on the Lokpal Bill ended its deliberations on Tuesday without a common text, and the government has decided to go ahead with its plan of consulting political parties and Chief Ministers on the two different versions before getting the Cabinet to clear a final draft.
Expressing “deep disappointment” at what it said was the government's watered down version of a Lokpal Bill — an official draft was presented to it for the first time on Tuesday — Team Anna criticised the exclusion of the Prime Minister from the ambit of the ombudsman and threatened to take to the streets from August 16. Anna Hazare, who has accused the government of lacking the will power to draft a Bill altogether, plans to go on another “indefinite” fast from that day. “The people will teach them [the government] a lesson,” Mr. Hazare said.
The ninth and last meeting of the committee did not last an hour; the two sides exchanged their drafts. The government representatives were, to quote Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily, “quite happy that the deliberations of the committee have come to an end.”

Now the disputed issues will be discussed in all party meet and later in the Cabinet, before it is introduced in the Parliament!

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