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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Eighth time lucky for Lokpal Bill? by Mohua Chatterjee

Eighth time lucky for Lokpal Bill? by Mohua Chatterjee

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published Published on Aug 30, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 30, 2011

The Lokpal Bill was introduced in Parliament for the eighth time in the 15th Lok Sabha as Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj mentioned on Saturday. But surprisingly, each time the Lokpal Bill was introduced, events took such a turn that the legislation remained elusive.

Will the Bill be through after the hype it got following Anna Hazare's movement?

Here's a lowdown of what happened each time the Bill was introduced through the years.

YB Chavan was the home minister when he introduced the Lokpal Bill for the first time in 1968, which was then sent to the joint select committee, and the Lok Sabha passed it on August 28, 1969. But before the Bill could be taken up by the Rajya Sabha, the fourth Lok Sabha was dissolved because of a split in Congress.

For the second time, the Bill was introduced by the then home minister Ram Niwas Mirdha on August 2, 1971, when Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister. Post-Bangladesh war euphoria in early 1972, issues like price rise, food shortage took centrestage, relegating this legislation to the back-burner. From 1975, the Emergency era followed.

On July 23, 1977, Charan Singh was the home minister in the Morarji Desai government when the Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha, but there was no follow-up action since it had to demit office in July, 1979.

Next, the Bill appeared on August 25, 1985, when the then law minister Ashok Sen in the Rajiv Gandhi government introduced it in the Lok Sabha. But the Bill again went into cold storage soon as the government was beset with successive crises over issues like the Shah Bano case, the Ram Mandir movement and, most importantly, the Bofors scandal.

On December 21, 1989, Dinesh Goswami, the then law minister in the V P Singh government, introduced the Bill, but troubles within the Janata Dal led to the regime's ouster soon.

The Bill only came up again on September 10, 1996. MoS personnel, S R Balasubramaniyam, had introduced it when H D Devegowda was the PM. However, the government's collapse in 1997 made it remain still-born.

During the first Atal Behari Vajpayee government, the Bill was introduced on July 23, 1998, by MoS personnel, K M R Janardhanan (AIADMK), but that regime too lasted for only 13 months.

As MoS personnel Vasundhara Raje introduced the Bill on July 9, 2001, during the second NDA regime under Vajpayee. The Bill was sent to the standing committee, where it remained stuck.

In 2004, UPA-I did not make any attempt to bring the Bill.

The Times of India, 30 August, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eighth-time-lucky-for-Lokpal-Bill/articleshow/9790615.cms


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