Thursday, December 29, 2011

BJP leadership not serious on strong Lokpal: Karma


Raipur, December 28, 2011
Former leader of opposition in state Assembly and Congress leader Mahendra Karma on Wednesday alleged that BJP’s senior leadership was not serious on strong Lokpal. “With the BJP refraining from voting in favour of Centre’s proposal to give constitutional status to Lokpal in Lok Sabha on December 27 clearly indicates that it does not want strong Lokpal Bill to be passed in the House,” charged Karma.
“The BJP does not want to uproot corruption but instead it simply wants to take political mileage by raising this issue,” he said.
“Now, the Centre cannot put pressure on state governments to constitute Lokpal as it failed to get constitutional status for it in the parliament due to BJP’s U-turn in the last minute. This means, there will be no change in the existing fragile system in the states,” Karma said.
He said amendments could be done in Lokpal but with no constitutional status, it would never become an autonomous and powerful body.

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