Women's groups may need to take lessons from Team Anna in campaigning for their quota bill Most MPs are opposed to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, just as they were opposed to the Women's Reservation Bill. But the Lokpal Bill stands a better chance of being enacted. Unlike the Women's Reservation Bill, which had no support on the streets, the anti-corruption law...
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In the year and now by Ramachandra Guha
The Republic of India has a billion (and more) citizens who, at any given time, are involved in a thousand (and more) controversies. Knowing which controversy is the most significant is always hard, and often impossible, to judge. Even so, we can be fairly certain that 2011 will go down in Indian history as the year of the Great Lokpal Debate, just as 1962 was the year of the war...
More »BJP to seek supervisory and administrative control of CBI by Lokpal
-The Hindu The Bharatiya Janata Party, which differs with several clauses of the new Lokpal Bill, would move a number of amendments, including one seeking supervisory and administrative control of the CBI under the Lokpal when the Bill comes up for discussion and passage in the Lok Sabha on December 27. The Leader of the Opposition, Sushma Swaraj, has already gone on record at the time of introduction of the Bill on...
More »CBI out, Prime Minister in with safeguards as Cabinet clears Lokpal Bill draft by Smita Gupta
C & D staff will also come under watchdog Refusing to be cowed down by pressure exerted by Team Anna, the government stood its ground on maintaining the investigative independence of the Central Bureau of Investigation, as the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cleared the draft of the controversial Lokpal Bill late on Tuesday evening. It is now likely to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The...
More »House panel to study farmer suicides proposed
-The Hindu The government on Monday proposed the setting up of a parliamentary panel to go into the issue of farmer suicides in the wake of contradictory figures emerging from the States and the Union Home Ministry's National Crime Records Bureau. The suggestion came after the government was cornered in the Rajya Sabha, during the reply to the debate on the agrarian crisis, leading to two quick adjournments and a walkout by...
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