Anna Hazare ferociously briefing the media said, the committee that had released the report on the anti-graft ombudsman bill was just "fooling people of the entire nation.".Thus announced to sit on a day-long fast at the Jantar Mantar on Sunday.Anna Harare popularity enable the place Jantar Mantar hot spot for Public debate.
Ombudsman around the globe has its members from the citizen of impeccable records to be watch dog on comprehensive democratic institutions and can ask for enquiry or lawful proceeding against any one within a system even the President. Bill Clinton faced lawful proceeding after Lewinsky scandal broke out which was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998 from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 25-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended that Group-A and Group-B officers of the Central Government should come under the Lokpal and group C & D employees under the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The report was presented in the Parliament on Friday.
Chairman of the Committee Mr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the CBI should not be subjected to the Lokpal. He said the Committee had recommended constitutional status for the Lokpal to enhance its stature and legal and moral authority. On the issue of weather the Prime Minister should be brought under Lokpal, he said it had been left to the wisdom of Parliament. Reacting to the report, the BJP said the Committee had complicated the issue so that the Bill could not be passed in the current Session. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the report was against the commitment made by the Finance Minister to the House. Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has said the proposals would not help in fighting graft.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that the Standing Committee had MPs of different political parties on board and would understand the sense of Parliament better than outsiders.
Ombudsman around the globe has its members from the citizen of impeccable records to be watch dog on comprehensive democratic institutions and can ask for enquiry or lawful proceeding against any one within a system even the President. Bill Clinton faced lawful proceeding after Lewinsky scandal broke out which was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998 from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 25-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Chairman of the Committee Mr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the CBI should not be subjected to the Lokpal. He said the Committee had recommended constitutional status for the Lokpal to enhance its stature and legal and moral authority. On the issue of weather the Prime Minister should be brought under Lokpal, he said it had been left to the wisdom of Parliament. Reacting to the report, the BJP said the Committee had complicated the issue so that the Bill could not be passed in the current Session. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the report was against the commitment made by the Finance Minister to the House. Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has said the proposals would not help in fighting graft.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that the Standing Committee had MPs of different political parties on board and would understand the sense of Parliament better than outsiders.
Anna Hazare has warned the government and said if a strong Lokpal Bill is not passed in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, and the country is not free from corruption,he will fight to root out corruption with last drop of blood in his body.Further add to go on an indefinite fast from 27th December at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi and campaign against Congress led UPA in the upcoming Assembly elections in five states, and Lok Sabha election.Anna,Septuagenarian activist,went on his first fast in April,has had gone on his second fast in Ramlila Maidan in August for the same issue, has been demanding inclusion of lower bureaucracy under the ambit of Lokpal besides provisions for Citizen's Charter and setting up Lokayuktas under a central law.But the government as well as Standing Committee have rejected his demands though Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Bansal has asked him to wait till Parliament passes the bill to launch any agitation.
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