Plan B: Lokpal Bill to be sent to select panel?

Last Updated: Thursday, December 29, 2011, 11:56

Tags: Lokpal Bill, Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Plan B: Lokpal Bill to be sent to select panel?

Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi: With the possibility of Lokpal Bill being passed in the Rajya Sabha dim, the government is working on a Plan B to get it cleared even if it takes some more months.

As per a media report on Thursday, the bill would be passed by a voice vote in the Rajya Sabha today and would be forwarded to a select parliamentary committee.

The panel’s mandate would be to hammer out a middle ground on the specific amendments moved by opposition parties. The bill would then be brought back to the Parliament during the next session in February and passed in a joint sitting of both houses.

The government’s options are limited as it lacks majority in the Rajya Sabha to push through the bill as it did in the Lok Sabha.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat said, “It is the responsibility of all parties to get the Lokpal Bill passed.”

However, political analysts feel that parliamentarians have lost the ‘sense of urgency’ now that Anna Hazare has broken his fast and abandoned the ‘jail bharo’ plan.

First Published: Thursday, December 29, 2011, 11:49

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Vijay - Dubai
All this time, govt tried to pass the time in blame game, and when it felt that water is going to cross neck, it is trying to play politics with the common man by bringing a weak and ineffective bill with all safeguards to the corrupts. It is well said ``HASTE IS WASTE``, take a little more time and make a bill which is effective & powerful.

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K Vinod Kumar - Mangalore
This is the way of cheating of Citizens by these crucked politicians by not accepting or rejecting. Whole political class have got united informally in scuttling a noble cause.

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Gopi - Donimalai
Since the Parliaentarians seemed to have lost the sense of urgency to get the Lokpal Bill passed during this session, it is good to take up the issue after a thorough study by a nominatede committee by the Government at a later date sometime in February, 2012 that too with a green signal from all most all the political parties.