No hurried decision on Lokpal, parties told government at meet
December 15th, 2011 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan said Wednesday that members of different political parties at the all-party meeting on the Lokpal bill had said that the government should not work “under extra pressure” and “no decision should be taken in a hurry” on a law for an ombudsman to fight corruption.
Speaking to reporters after the all-party meeting ended after 10 p.m., Paswan said the parties said that “the supremacy of parliament should be maintained.”
He also said the government had not given a commitment that the Lokpal bill will be passed in the ongoing winter session of parliament.
He said that none of the parties at the meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had opposed reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections in the proposed anti-corruption ombudsman.
“I am happy that nobody opposed reservation…There should be reservation,” Paswan said after the all-party meeting at prime minister’s 7, RCR residence. He said that there should be reservation for minorities also in the Lokpal.
On including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under purview of the Lokpal, he said it should not be neither under government or the Lokpal, but should be independent.
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