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Lokpal
Bill: Civil society members to declare assets Friday
Thursday April 14, 2011 10:00:32 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Two days
before deliberations on the anti-graft Lokpal Bill are set to
begin, NGO India Against Corruption (IAC) Thursday said the civil
society members in the joint drafting committee will declare their
assets and liabilities Friday.
The NGO also released details of donations and expenditure during
Gandhian Anna Hazare's anti-graft campaign that culminated in the
government agreeing to establish the joint drafting committee.
"We have received a total donation amounting to Rs.82,87,668. We
have issued receipts to all the donors and have maintained a
record of their details," IAC said in a statement.
It said Rs.50,17,768 were spent and receipts were issued to the
Public Cause Research Foundation, which is acting as the
secretariat for the campaign.
Meanwhile, Hazare appealed to people to stay united in the fight
for a corruption-free future.
"My indefinite fast was meant to be a satyagraha of the people of
India to liberate ourselves from a monstrously corrupt system of
governance," he said.
According to the statement, activist Mallika Sarabhai reaffirmed
her faith in the campaign.
"I am totally with Anna Hazare in his commitment to weed out
corruption," she said.
The joint committee, comprising five ministers and civil society
members each, set up to draft the Lokpal Bill will hold its first
meeting here Saturday.
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