No comment on Lokpal bill for now: BJP
December 21st, 2011 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said it will not comment on the Lokpal bill until the final version of the proposed legislation is circulated among MPs.
A day after several BJP leaders said they will protest the bill and called it “cheating the people”, party leader S.S. Ahluwalia said no statement could be made without seeing the bill.
“Even a full stop or a comma changes the meaning of a sentence… we will see the bill and only then give any comment,” Ahluwalia said.
“Why should we take up the gun, without even knowing what is there in the bill,” he said.
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