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New Delhi: PM to be Brought Under Lokpal, but with Riders

  •   Mon, Jun 20 2011 07:22:45 PM

Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi

New Delhi, Jun 20: The Prime Minister will be brought under the purview of Lokpal, but with riders, media reports said.

The final draft of the Lokpal Bill takes a middle path on the issue, CNN-IBN reported, stating that it has access to the document.

"Complaints against the Prime Minister can be entertained but will be investigated only after the Prime Minister leaves office," the report stated.

The government is still adamant that the Prime Minister will not face prosecution like the rest who fall under the Lokpal's ambit.

Tuesday's meeting will discuss the pending issues of the Lokpal Bill before it is sent to the cabinet. Though on Monday both parties claimed that many of the issues were resolved peacefully, consensus on some of the major points still remains elusive.

"There is a difference of opinion on selection and removal of the Lokpal. The government wants to control the selection and fairness of the Lokpal," CNN-IBN quoted Kejriwal.
  

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 20 2011

    The ion committee should elect socially-credible non-politicians as the Lokpal Members for a period of Five Years only. Except the President all other citizens of India should come under the umbrella of Lokpal Act.
    As our own, Hon. Santosh Hegde suggested, Anna Hazare, instead of fasting again, he should tour all the corners of India and awaken the Indians like how Gandhiji did during British Rule.
    The Lokpal Bill should include the religious trust for taking donations in their hundy boxes by faceless black-moneyed donors and escape taxes. The Lokpal should take stringent action against the organisations and the religious leaders for misusing religion by instigate the follow different religions for their own benefits.
    Let us all fight against corruption and amassing wealth through political and religious mileage as well as communalising religion for their own political mileages. Both are equally dangerous and if not checked they will destroy our future economy and generation.

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  • ashenoy, mangloor

    Mon, Jun 20 2011

    "Elected officials must be accountable to the electorate including the Prime Minister". Lokpal bill with teeth will work. Teethless Lokpal bill is just a lip service.

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