Dizzy Lokpal Bill cleared by the Cabinet:complete Report

Cabinet on Thursday( 31,Jan 2013) cleared the amended version of Lokpal Bill suggested by the standing committee of Rajya Sabha. Out of 16 amendments suggested by the standing committee 14 were accepted(click here to see the suggested amendments).
However as usual the bill is still in critically weak state. Major points that were demanded by the public to strengthen the bill are still missing.

WEAKNESSES of the cleared lokpal amendment

• Most stupid point the bill cleared by the cabinet is that political parties are out of the jurisdiction of the anti-corruption institute. |i.e even if such a bill passed then the lokpal will not be able to investigate the corruption in the political parties of the nation!Then what the hell will the lokpal be investigating?|
• The demand for the appointment of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) chief by a group comprising the PM, leader of opposition and the Chief Justice of India in order to prevent the government control on CBI was also rejected by the the cabinet. | i.e CBI will still be under the control of government as appointment of the chief will  not be made by the independent group|
• The amended draft also leaves the implementation of Lokayukta bill(state version of lokpal)) and appointment of Lokayuktas to the states.|This decision of making lokayukta a state defined creation is wrong as it will make Lokayukta different in every state leading to difficult usage of bill in multi-state corruption cases.Moreover state governments may also use their own scissors on the bill to hide their level of corruption Click HERE for complete point-wise analysis on this  |
• Public servant facing an inquiry by the Lokpal will be given an opportunity to be heard at the stage of the preliminary inquiry.
• Lokpal  will have a prosecution wing of its own but will not have a say in the transfer of officials investigating a case taken up by it. |Another epic non-sense|
• The CBI will report to the lokpal with regard to cases under lokpal scrutiny and the body will be able to ask any relevant agency to take up an investigation. |However CBI is still under the potential control of government. So this step can't undo that flaw|

Arvind Kejriwal had demanded, "Why does the government not fulfill one single demand and make the CBI independent. There is no point making committees after committees."

 Anna Hazare had also demanded that the CVC and CBI be brought under the Lokpal. "I have written a letter to Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister asking whether CBI and CVC will be under the Lokpal. If they're not, how will we check corruption," questioned Anna. 

Source:http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/cbi-under-lokpal-supervision-as-cabinet-clears-bill_816333.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cabinet-clears-Lokpal-Bill-with-amendments-keeps-parties-out-of-its-ambit/articleshow/18280578.cms
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/editorial/it-makes-no-sense-to-exempt-political-parties-from-lokpals-ambit/articleshow/18282642.cms