New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Civil society members are expected to make a strong pitch for speeding up the process to draft the Lokpal Bill when they meet the representatives of the government tomorrow.
The fourth meeting of the team led by Anna Hazare is expected to ask the ministerial team led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to call at least three meetings every week to complete the drafting process by the June 30 deadline set in the gazette notification issued by the government.
At the third meeting of the Joint Drafting Committee on Lokpal Bill, there was a general agreement on seven of the 34 points submitted by the civil society members.
There was agreement on empowering the Lokpal to initiate a suo motu probe into the allegations of corruption against ministers, MPs and senior bureaucrats.
Currently, a minister can be prosecuted only after sanction from the Prime Minister.