Saturday, August 27, 2011: According to reports, the government on Saturday agreed to a voice vote on the Lokpal Bill. Sources say that the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will consider a resolution on sense of the House on Lokpal. Member of Team Anna, Arvind Kejriwal said, “We are OK with voice vote.”
As the two Houses of Parliament took up an extraordinary debate, government took into account some voices opposing Hazare’s proposals and is considering conveying the sense of Parliament to the Gandhian.
Hazare had demanded that the Parliament should accept the three key demands of the civil society for him to end the fast.
Team Anna was insisting that a resolution be moved and put to vote in both Houses of Parliament on the Lokpal issue and this should incorporate the three contentious points of a Citizens’ Charter, Lokayuktas in states and including the lower bureaucracy under the ambit of the ombudsman.
Though the opposition was unsparing in its attack on the government on the issue of corruption, both the government and the opposition was unanimous that parliament was the only body which could and should draft legislations in the country.
The point of agreement emerged as both sides, participating in the special debate on the Lokpal issue in the Rajya Sabha Saturday, said that parliament was the only body which should be drafting bills.
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