Ist meeting of Par panel looking into Lokpal bill on Sep 23-24

New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) The first meeting of the
reconstituted Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee going
into the Lokpal Bill will be held on September 23 and 24 when
the views of seven to eight witnesses will be recorded.
"We have scheduled detailed deliberations with seven to
eight witnesses on September 23 and September 24," Chairman of
the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law
and Justice Abhishek Singhvi told PTI.
Singhvi, however, refused to divulge which of the
witnesses will be called for the deliberations. The Committee
has been asked to give its report on the Lokpal issue within
three months.
The 31-member committee headed by Singhvi was
reconstituted along with other similar Parliamentary panels by
Speaker Meira Kumar in consultation with Rajya Sabha (Upper
House of Indian Parliament) Chairman Hamid Ansari Thursday
itself.
The term of the earlier committee headed by Singhvi was
over by August 31 like all other parliamentary committees and
the delay in reconstitution of the committee was inviting
criticism from some quarters in the backdrop of the government
making it clear that it wanted to introduce the Lokpal Bill in
the winter session.
While the Rajya Sabha has renominated most of the members
on this committee as also on other panels, the Speaker decided
the composition from the Lower House in consultation with
political parties.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and
Manish Tewari of Congress from the Lok Sabha (Lower House of
Indian Parliament) and Amar Singh from the Rajya Sabha are
among those renominated to the Committee which has been asked
to give its report within three months.