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Lalu, Mulayam oppose Lokpal bill
Wednesday December 21, 2011 09:25:59 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Wednesday
opposed the draft Lokpal bill, approved by the union cabinet
Tuesday, saying it would give "all powers" to the police.
SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad expressed
their reservations in the Lok Sabha after the Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) raised the issue of the alleged manhandling of one of its
MPs by the prime minister's security personnel inside parliament
complex.
"Lokpal will not be in your hands. It will go to the hands of
police. Nothing can be done then against the police," Mulayam
Singh Yadav said. "These powers will go to the police, they will
not respect us (MPs). Superintendents of police and district
magistrates will send us to jail."
Asking the government to think over seriously as to whom it was
going to give powers, he asked "whether all this could be done
under pressure of one man", apparently referring to Anna Hazare.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad joined him, saying that he had not raised
any insignificant issue but the government was not paying
attention and acting as if it had "disappeared".
"You are going to give powers by which everybody's throats would
be cut," he said.
He said there should be "consensus" before the bill is brought to
parliament Thursday.
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