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Lokpal bill is well thought out: Amartya Sen
Tuesday January 03, 2012 01:07:53 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Amid fiasco in
Parliament over the Lokpal bill and strong criticism of some of
its clauses on Lokayukta by different political parties, Nobel
laureate, economist Amartya Sen Monday said that the anti-graft
legislation is well thought out.
"I do not think personally the Lokpal bill, as it came, is not
well thought out. I have not seen a well thought out Lokpal bill
in fact... and maybe I have not seen," Prof Sen told a gathering
here on the occasion of screening of "Amartya Sen: A Life
Reexamined", a documentary on him.
He, however, said the real challenge would be to implement it in
the democratic structure.
"But it is difficult to see how to integrate it without
undermining the democratic structure and at the same time, making
corruption easily to be dealt with by the judicial system. I think
that is the real challenge," he said.
Stating that corruption was a huge issue in the county, Sen,
currently professor of economics and philosophy at the Harvard
University, said, "The solution to any problem of this kind has to
solve it in the Indian context within the structure of our rule of
laws and constitution and our democratic political system."
The Lokpal bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on the first day of
the specially-extended three-day session of parliament, while the
Rajya Sabha debated the legislation but adjourned without voting
on it on the last day.
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, a major constituent of the
Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, made a
dramatic volte-face in the upper house of parliament after
supporting the passage of the bill in the Lok Sabha.
The party said it will not compromise with the central government
over the Lokayukta clause in the Lokpal bill as it "hurts the
independence of states".
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