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| Lokpal Bill to be tabled in Lok Sab |
| Lokpal Bill to be tabled in Lok Sabha at 11 am tomorrow
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| INDIA
, 21-December-2011
3:19:0 AM |
| The final draft of the Lokpal Bill will be introduced in Lok Sabha at 11 am tomorrow.
It's war again. Sonia Gandhi has set the tone for the government's next steps on the Lokpal Bill that it plans to table in Parliament tomorrow. After a meeting of party MPs today, the Congress president said she was "always ready for a fight.".
At that meeting of MPs, Mrs Gandhi reportedly said the Lokpal Bill is "path-breaking" and "Team Anna must accept it." On the other side, Team Anna has already donned battle gear. On Twitter, activist Kiran Bedi retorted, "The bill is not path-breaking but breaking the path. Thank you Sonia G."
It is indeed battle that the government seems headed into, a day after it seemed to have it all tied up. And it is not just with Team Anna. The opposition, particularly the BJP, too has made it clear that it is not ok with all the provisions in the final draft of the Bill that the Cabinet approved last night.
So even as senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee discusses an extension of the Winter Session and the passage of pending legislation, including the Lokpal Bill, with senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley at a meeting right now, the government is ready with a new strategy that will ensure it does not have to rely on the opposition at all to pass its Lokpal Bill.
Sources said the government plans to make it a statutory bill. In that form the Lokpal Bill will only need a simple majority to go through in both Houses. The UPA constituents add up to give the government a slender majority in the Lok Sabha. As a constitutional bill it would need a two-thirds majority, and for that the government would need the Opposition on board, which would mean more consultation and amendments to the bill. A separate bill to grant constitutional status to Lokpal is thus unlikely in this session.
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