CPI(M) to move two amendments to Lokpal Bill

Advocating a strong Lokpal outside the control of the government, the CPI(M) today said it would move two amendments to the 'weak' and 'deeply flawed' anti-graft bill introduced in the Lok Sabha last week.

Advocating a strong Lokpal outside the control of the government, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday said it would move two amendments to the 'weak' and 'deeply flawed' anti-graft bill introduced in the Lok Sabha last week.

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"We are moving two amendments to the bill," CPI(M) MP Brinda Karat told reporters in New Delhi.

She said the amendments were based on the CPI(M)'s dissent note to the standing committee report on the Lokpal Bill.

"We are asking for a full independent investigative agency under the total jurisdiction of the Lokpal which will have the sole prerogative to decide on all the cases that come under the Prevention of Corruption Act," she said.

"The second important amendment is on the issue of selection and removal which at present the government was to keep full control of," she also added.

Strongly opposed to the Lokpal Bill, Karat said the government had a "negative" approach towards the legislation that envisages the creation of an effective ombudsman.