MAJOR SOURCE on this news (NDTV)
The Union Cabinet is expected to consider tomorrow (monday dec 19) the much-awaited Lokpal Bill.
With the Union Cabinet set to discuss the Lokpal Bill tomorrow, sources have told NDTV(news org) that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a high-level meet to give final touches to the Cabinet note on the bill. The high-level meet will be held to resolve all outstanding issues on the Lokpal Bill, the sources added.
The crucial Cabinet meeting precedes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance to all parties concerned with the government's commitment to pass the contentious bill in the current session of Parliament that ends on December 22. "No one should doubt our sincerity in passing the bill in this season," the Prime Minister said yesterday.
With the government under constant pressure by anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare for a strong Lokpal, the UPA government's top ministers -Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Minister of State in the PMO V Narayansamy - met this evening to finalise the note on the proposed legislation to be circulated among the Cabinet meeting.
The Union Cabinet is expected to consider tomorrow (monday dec 19) the much-awaited Lokpal Bill.
With the Union Cabinet set to discuss the Lokpal Bill tomorrow, sources have told NDTV(news org) that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a high-level meet to give final touches to the Cabinet note on the bill. The high-level meet will be held to resolve all outstanding issues on the Lokpal Bill, the sources added.
The crucial Cabinet meeting precedes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance to all parties concerned with the government's commitment to pass the contentious bill in the current session of Parliament that ends on December 22. "No one should doubt our sincerity in passing the bill in this season," the Prime Minister said yesterday.
With the government under constant pressure by anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare for a strong Lokpal, the UPA government's top ministers -Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Minister of State in the PMO V Narayansamy - met this evening to finalise the note on the proposed legislation to be circulated among the Cabinet meeting.
NDTV(major source) has exclusive information about the contours of the Lokpal Bill that will be brought to the Cabinet. Some of its key features are:
- The Prime Minister will be under Lokpal but with certain safeguards
- The PM can be referred for a preliminary probe if three-fourth of all Lokpal members agree
- The proceedings will be in camera, and the report will have to be sent to the Parliament
- On the issue of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency will report to the Lokpal only on cases referred to it by the ombudsman
- The CBI chief's appointment remains an outstanding issue and will be dealt with later, though in principle, the government agrees on a selection panel comprising the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition, the Lok Sabha speaker and the Lokpal chairman
- On the issue of the removal of the Lokpal, the government doesn't favour an impeachment
- The removal of the Lokpal can be done through a reference of the President
- If 100 MPs sign a petition against any Lokpal member, the President has to refer the complaint to the Supreme Court
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