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Our Lokpal draft real, Team Annas just a dissent note: Moily NEW DELHI: Law minister Veerappa Moily on Friday said the government draft on the Lokpal Bill had been evolved after the nine meetings of the joint drafting committee and would be one considered for further consultations. The Team Anna draft was at best a dissent note, he said. Moilys statement is significant because so far it was felt the two drafts were parallel initiatives with some points of divergence. This assertion from one of the members of the panel and the law minister is a clear indication that as and when Lokpal Bill is taken up either at the Cabinet or the all-party meeting next month, the government version will take precedence. The Lokpal drafting committee was constituted with five nominees of the government and five nominees of Anna Hazare with the intention of preparing a suggestive document for the actual process of drafting the Lokpal Bill. Now, after nine meetings, there have been several changes in the government draft compared to the one that was drawn up in 2010. As per the discussions, the Lokpal Bill 2011 has been prepared by the drafting committee. Nobody has rejected it. There was not a word of rejection in any of the meetings. The civil society draft may at best be a dissent note and it will be put to the government and political parties as such, Moily said. Moily also released what he called a clause by clause comparison between the governments version and the civil society version. The comparative statement, though, is largely an exercise in proving the superiority of the government draft, especially with respect to the contentious provisions. In fact, under most heads, the provisions of the Jan Lokpal Bill have been replaced by just a line about how the government Bill is better. Back |
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