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No hurried decision on Lokpal, parties told government at meet
Wednesday December 14, 2011 10:54:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: 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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