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Pass Lokpal Bill or face people’s ire: Anna warns
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 15 (CMC): Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday warned the Centre to pass a strict anti-graft legislation before the Winter Session of Parliament concludes or face people’s ire for not fulfilling its commitment on the Lokpal issue.
Anna also said that from the first day of new Year (January 1, 2012), supporters of Jan Lokpal Bill will start jail bharo aandolan all over the country.
Addressing a press briefing in the national capital, the 74-year-old Gandhian said, “We will stage massive protest from December 27 if the Lokpal Bill is not passed in this session. Our agitation will continue for three days and from the New Year, the supporters of Team Anna will court arrest in the whole country.”
“If the weather remains pleasant then the agitation will be held in Delhi as announced earlier. However, if turns bad, we might shift the agitation to Mumbai,” Anna told reporters.
Asking the government to stick to his deadline for passing a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna said, “We will stage protests and sit-ins in front of those politicians’ houses who have opposed the Lokpal Bill,” he said.
However, he expressed hope that the Lokpal bill will be passed in this session. Softening his stand, Anna said, “If the Centre fulfils its promise and passes a strong Lokpal Bill then we would organise a meet to thank the UPA government for doing so as we are not asking anything for us, but for the country.”
His remarks came a day after a consensus eluded political parties on Lokpal Bill.
Hazare was responding to questions on consensus eluding the all-party meeting on Lokpal Bill and apprehensions that the bill will not be passed in the ongoing Winter Session.
Repeating his demand for extension of the ongoing session to pass the bill, he said, "If there is no time for passing the bill (according to the present schedule), then extend it.”
"It is important for the country. Earlier also, you have occasions when the Session was extended," he said.
The Centre earlier rejected Anna’s demand for extending the Winter Session of Parliament to pass the Lokpal Bill and said that the anti-graft legislation will be passed in the ongoing session itself.
Acknowledging that consensus eluded the all-party meeting on Lokpal issue, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said government was confident that it would be able to table the proposed bill in the Winter Session itself.
When asked what would be his request to Anna Hazare, he said, "We are not talking to him, whatever he does is his right. But being a honourable citizen of the nation he should understand that Parliament's job can be done by Parliament only."
"People's 'fatwa' is with Parliament, which includes more than 500 members of Lok Sabha and more than 240 members of Rajya Sabha and they have been given the responsibility that they have to make laws. And we are doing our work," Bansal said.
Pass Lokpal Bill or face people’s ire: Anna warns
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 15 (CMC): Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday warned the Centre to pass a strict anti-graft legislation before the Winter Session of Parliament concludes or face people’s ire for not fulfilling its commitment on the Lokpal issue.
Anna also said that from the first day of new Year (January 1, 2012), supporters of Jan Lokpal Bill will start jail bharo aandolan all over the country.
Addressing a press briefing in the national capital, the 74-year-old Gandhian said, “We will stage massive protest from December 27 if the Lokpal Bill is not passed in this session. Our agitation will continue for three days and from the New Year, the supporters of Team Anna will court arrest in the whole country.”
“If the weather remains pleasant then the agitation will be held in Delhi as announced earlier. However, if turns bad, we might shift the agitation to Mumbai,” Anna told reporters.
Asking the government to stick to his deadline for passing a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna said, “We will stage protests and sit-ins in front of those politicians’ houses who have opposed the Lokpal Bill,” he said.
However, he expressed hope that the Lokpal bill will be passed in this session. Softening his stand, Anna said, “If the Centre fulfils its promise and passes a strong Lokpal Bill then we would organise a meet to thank the UPA government for doing so as we are not asking anything for us, but for the country.”
His remarks came a day after a consensus eluded political parties on Lokpal Bill.
Hazare was responding to questions on consensus eluding the all-party meeting on Lokpal Bill and apprehensions that the bill will not be passed in the ongoing Winter Session.
Repeating his demand for extension of the ongoing session to pass the bill, he said, "If there is no time for passing the bill (according to the present schedule), then extend it.”
"It is important for the country. Earlier also, you have occasions when the Session was extended," he said.
The Centre earlier rejected Anna’s demand for extending the Winter Session of Parliament to pass the Lokpal Bill and said that the anti-graft legislation will be passed in the ongoing session itself.
Acknowledging that consensus eluded the all-party meeting on Lokpal issue, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said government was confident that it would be able to table the proposed bill in the Winter Session itself.
When asked what would be his request to Anna Hazare, he said, "We are not talking to him, whatever he does is his right. But being a honourable citizen of the nation he should understand that Parliament's job can be done by Parliament only."
"People's 'fatwa' is with Parliament, which includes more than 500 members of Lok Sabha and more than 240 members of Rajya Sabha and they have been given the responsibility that they have to make laws. And we are doing our work," Bansal said.
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