WEAK BILL -lacks main authority-

The cabinet on Thursday(july 28 2011) finished drafting the Lokpal bill aimed at curbing graft in the government, but activists slammed it saying it was not tough enough to fight widespread corruption which poses a risk to economic growth.

1. The bill seeks to set up a Lokpal to investigate charges of corruption against ministers and lawmakers, but does not cover the prime minister, judges and bureaucrats.

Slamming the bill as too weak because it did not cover the prime minister and judges, Anna Hazare, the social activist whose hunger strike in April forced the government to begin drafting the bill, said he would begin a second fast against corruption on 16 august, raising the sceptre of a fresh wave of anti-government protests.

"They have not cheated Anna Hazare, they have cheated the country's people," said Anna Hazare, 

"People have to take this as another battle for independence and take to the streets to fight corruption."

"For this reason I, along with the entire nation, will sit on protest ... till I have no life in my body.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has taken on the government over graft, said it did not "appreciate" the non-inclusion of the prime minister in the bill.

WHAT I THINK : If there would be no powerful authority in the lokpal then how the hell lokpal will manage 

CORRUPTION because corruption has a wide powerful political n underworld support.

What U thinK: please post comments.


Sincere Source:http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/idINIndia-58506620110729