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Hegde to
decide today on his continuing in Lok Pal panel
Saturday April 23, 2011 10:37:42 AM,
IANS
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Bangalore/New Delhi: Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) N. Santosh Hegde will decide
Saturday on his continuation in the Lok Pal bill draft panel in
view of Congress leaders questioning his success in curbing
corruption in Karnataka.
Hegde's decision will impact the fate of two other civil society
members, leading lawyers Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant, in
the 10-member panel.
The panel has five civil society representatives and five central
ministers.
All the five civil society members of the panel - the other two
being Gandhian Anna Hazare and social activist Arvind Kejriwal -
are facing flak, mainly from Congress, over one or the other
issue, casting doubts either on their integrity or claims to
success.
The worst-hit are the two Bhushans, first over a controversial CD
that claims the father-son duo can fix judges, and the second over
getting prime land in Noida, abutting New Delhi, at below market
price.
The Bhushans have not talked about quitting the panel but Hegde
has said he was thinking of leaving it following Congress general
secretary Digvijay Singh's attack on him.
There is pressure on the Bhushans to quit while Hegde is under
pressure from scores of Bangaloreans, including Congress and
Janata Dal-Secular leaders, and from leading lights of the
anti-graft movement to ignore Singh's sarcastic comments and stay
on in the panel.
Hegde, a retired judge of the Supreme Court whose term as
Karnataka Lokayukta ends August this year, has said he would
consult other civil society representatives on the panel in New
Delhi Saturday and announce his final decision.
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