The government on Thursday slammed the burning of copies of the Lokpal Bill by Anna Hazare and his team members as an affront to Parliament, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told reporters. Sibal added that if Hazare had different views on the Lokpal Bill, he should present these before the standing committee of Parliament.
As the government introduced the lokpal bill in the Lok Sabha, Hazare and his supporters burnt the copies of anti-draft law for excluding the office of the Prime Minister from its purview.
Hazare and his supporters set fire to copies of the bill in Maharashtra's Ralegaon Siddhi while his supporters Arvind Kejriwal, Prshant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi led the protests in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi area in Ghaziabad, a town of Delhi.
Hazare has threatened to go on fast on August 16 to protest the exclusion of some recommendations made by Civil Society representatives from the bill.
The legislation does not bring the Prime Minister under the purview of the Bill. But once he demits the office, he or she can be investigated by the lokpal for any wrongdoing.
It also excludes the judiciary from the purview of the bill and any action of an MP in Parliament or any Parliamentary Committee.
News Reported by AR
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