Click to play videoNew Delhi: With the Food Security Bill out of the way, the Cabinet will now take up the contentious Lokpal Bill on Monday evening. Sources say the government is likely to give in to two out of Anna Hazare's three demands.
The government is working overtime to finalise the Lokpal Draft and the Cabinet is likely to meet to pass the Lokpal Bill.
As the winter session comes to an end, the government is working overtime to bring a please-all Lokpal Bill. Sources say that the UPA, under pressure, has proposed that the Prime Minister be included in the bill with riders, that Group C bureaucrats under the Chief Vigilance Commissioner be supervised by Lokpal and that the CBI director be appointed by a panel comprising the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Lokpal. Sources say the government has also proposed that Lokpal members get a vigilance clearance from the CVC.
Sources say the government is also proposing nearly 50 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes in the Lokpal Bill and that the Lokpal monitors the CBI in cases of corruption it refers to the investigative agency.
But as Anna spreads his wings, the government's worries have increased, specially after Anna threatening to launch a jail bharo agitation and a fast if the bill isn't passed in this session.
What the government is banking on is support from other political parties. It hopes that with politicians keen to protect their turf, countering Anna's fury will be easy.
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