New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee going into the Lokpal Bill will begin grappling with a difficult task this week when it is expected to hear conflicting demands from various organisations including CVC and CBI on how best to check corruption.
Two crucial meetings of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Personnel and Public Grievances, which was reconstituted just three days back, have been scheduled on September 23 and 24 by its Chairman Abhishek Singhvi.
During the recently concluded Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Committee was given three months time to give its report.
The Committee has to devise ways to form a strong Lokpal Bill and solve the differences between civil society headed by Anna Hazare and the government over the bill.
While government has brought forward the Lokpal Bill to check the menace of corruption, civil society has come up with Jan Lokpal Bill with certain powers and jurisdiction which did not find favour with the government.
Besides the Central Vigilance Commission and the Central Bureau of Investigation, those who have been called to give evidence before the Standing Committee include social activist Aruna Roy, eminent lawyer Harish Salve, and Dalit leader Udit Raj.
The 31-member committee has besides Singhvi a number of legal experts including Ram Jethmalani of the BJP, Vijay Bahadur Singh of the BSP, Manish Tewari and Shantaram Naik of the Congress as also leaders like Lalu Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan and Amar Singh.
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