The Centre on Thursday tabled the Lokpal Bill in the Parliament. But it won't be a smooth sailing for the bill, with the BJP and even UPA ally DMK demanding inclusion of the Prime Minister under the Lokpal Bill.
In, what has been a season of scams and government battling charges of corruption rose to introduce the contentious anti-corruption Lokpal bill. The civil society hit the roads protesting the government draft. They burnt the draft Lokpal bill, inviting criticism from the Congress that they were insulting Parliament.
The Civil society was supported by the main Opposition party.
"IPC provides no immunity to the PM. No person on any post can be a holy cow," Sushma Swaraj said.
Even before the rukus in Parlaiment could have died down, copies of the bill were being burnt; it was direct attack on the government, replying on public pressure to force the government to change its position.
As the standing committee on law and justice now debates the Lokpal, the government is bound to face a combined assault from the BJP, the Left Front and even allies like the DMK that demand the Prime Minister should not be exempt.
Defending the draft, the man who liaised with civil society for the government, Kapil Sibal accused the BJP of political opportunism.
"The leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha nearly wanted to make a political point; this is a classic example of political opportunism." Sibal said.
The creation of an Ombudsman or a Lokpal has been attempted eight times in the last two decades. But these embarrassing images of corruption at the top, has had an adverse fallout on the India growth story.
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