Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr681204238507b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal bill&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 10372
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;lokpal bill&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’ | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times


&nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;





&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Economic Times</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr681204238507b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal bill&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 10372
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;lokpal bill&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’ | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times


&nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;





&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Economic Times</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr681204238507b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr681204238507b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr681204238507b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal bill&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 10372,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 10483,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 10372
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;lokpal bill&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times


&amp;nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;





&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&amp;quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &amp;quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;will have far greater powers&amp;quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &amp;quot;much higher&amp;quot; .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid&#039;s disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani&#039;s rath yatra against graft.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &amp;quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&amp;quot; Khurshid said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&amp;quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists&#039; description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &amp;quot;fake CD&amp;quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &amp;quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&#039;&#039; as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee&#039;s skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &amp;quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &amp;quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .&#039;&#039; But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&amp;quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... &#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’ | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times


&nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;





&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Economic Times</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 10372,
		'title' => 'Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Economic Times
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 10483,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 10372,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’',
	'metaKeywords' => 'lokpal bill',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Economic Times


&nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;





&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...',
	'disp' => '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Economic Times</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 10372,
	'title' => 'Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Economic Times
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Economic Times, 12 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec/articleshow/10322116.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'lokpal-to-have-constitutional-status-more-power-than-ec-10483',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 10483,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 10372
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’'
$metaKeywords = 'lokpal bill'
$metaDesc = '
-The Economic Times


&nbsp;


The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;





&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a...'
$disp = '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Economic Times</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&quot;We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority,&quot; law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be &quot;more powerful than the Election Commission&quot; , &quot;will have far greater powers&quot; as well as a profile and stature that is &quot;much higher&quot; .&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. &quot;Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution,&quot; Khurshid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet&nbsp;</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators&quot; accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the &quot;fake CD&quot; allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called &quot;liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, &quot;They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward.&quot;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the &quot;fake&quot; CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify">Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. &quot;We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,&quot;I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’

-The Economic Times   The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.  "We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment . That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority," law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday.  Khurshid, who gave Rahul the credit for the move, further said the Lokpal would be "more powerful than the Election Commission" , "will have far greater powers" as well as a profile and stature that is "much higher" .  The new thinking on Lokpal seems to be designed to outmanoeuvre civil society activists as well as political opponents . It comes at a time when the Hazare campaign has upped the ante again, and Khurshid's disclosure coincided with the inauguration of L K Advani's rath yatra against graft.  The version proposed by the government is more radical than what civil society activists had asked for and could help the government claim credit for the anti-graft watchdog.  Rahul first proposed the idea during the special sitting of Parliament to discuss the creation of Lokpal. The Congress general secretary had called it a game-changer . Although the claim was then dismissed as a delaying tactic , government has seized upon the suggestion to regain the initiative. "Rahul is very committed to that (proposal) and he believes it is a very important step we must take because Lokpal is no ordinary institution," Khurshid said.  Although the law minister said the issue had not been discussed in the Cabinet yet, he said the party and government favoured bringing a constitution amendment bill in the winter session of Parliament to enact the law on Lokpal.  Sibal led govt offensive at Lokpal meet  New Delhi: Tempers flared, accusations were hurled and threats flew back and forth as the June 30 deadline to complete the Lokpal draft drew closer. The audio recordings of the joint Lokpal drafting committee - made public in response to an RTI application - have revealed how sharp words were exchanged between civil society members and Union ministers.  HRD minister Kapil Sibal led the charge from the government side, taking on the civil society activists head on over their "liars, cheats and conspirators" accusation against the minister. He asked them to justify the charge. In the tapes, the HRD minister is also heard mocking civil society activists' description of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chief Election Commissioner as objective constitutional bodies when the two sides locked horns over the composition of the selection committee for Lokpal.  While most of the nine meetings spread over two months were cordial, matters heated up in the seventh round sharpening the divide which eventually resulted in the collapse of the negotiations. The provocation for the spike in tension was the barbs the two sides were trading in public. While lawyer father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan were wincing from the "fake CD" allegations slapped on them, Sibal chose to raise the issue of ministers being called "liars, cheats and conspirators'' as soon as the meeting started. It took all of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's skills to calm both sides down and focus the discussions on the bill.  Launching on an offensive, Sibal said, "They have been rather generous in their praise towards us, by calling us liars, cheats and conspirators . And Anna Hazareji himself I heard him on television yesterday itself, says that whatever we had promised at the time when he was on fast we have reneged on that promise . Before this meeting starts we would like to know how and when have we cheated you, lied to you, conspired against you. And how and when have we been arrogant and in what manner have we gone back on any promise that we made to you... before any substantive discussion is taken forward."  Team Anna members initially kept quiet but when pressed further by Sibal, retorted by bringing up the "fake" CD where Shanti Bhushan purportedly offered to fix a judge through Prashant Bhushan for a fee.  Sibal denied that government had anything to do with the CD, and kept up his offensive that the civil society members back their charges with evidence. Justice Santosh Hegde also pitched in, recalling the allegations levelled by a Congress general secretary against the civil society.  Anna Hazare tried to play the peacemaker. "We had earlier said that civil society and the government are united in their resolve to fight corruption .'' But Sibal remained insistent and continued forcefully that the civil society members owed them an explanation . To this Kejriwal said ,"I think each one of you carries two hats. One is that of a member of the committee and the other is the member of the government of India. We have been saying things against the government. We have never talked.... '