Lucknow, Jun 7 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati has refused to respond to the questionnaire on provisions of the Lokpal Bill, saying that seeking opinion of her party before tabling the bill in the Lok Sabha was contradictory to Parliamentary traditions.
"Seeking an opinion of the party before tabling the bill on the floor of the House was contradictory to Parliamentary traditions," Mayawati said in her three-page reply sent on June 4 to the letter from Chairman of Lokpal Bill drafting committee Pranab Mukherjee, party sources said today.
Mayawati said that as there was no representative of BSP in the drafting committee, she was not in a position to express her views.
"Had there been any representative of my party in the draft committee, I would have been in a better position to express my opinion," she said.