Lokpal Bill Debate

• No consensus on Lokpal Bill after all-party meet: 10 big facts

  Will India get the new anti-corruption law it has been waiting for? The Lokpal Bill - named for a national anti-graft agency that it creates - was passed by the Lok Sabha. But the Winter Session of the Rajya Sabha ended before the bill could be put to a vote. The Prime Minister called an all-party meeting today to build consensus before the bill ...

• BJP top rung meets President to complain about Lokpal fiasco

  Senior leaders of the BJP walked to the Rashtrapati Bhavan today to meet President Pratibha Patil to formally complain about the government's failure to put the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill to vote in the Rajya Sabha on December 29. Despite the Congress' denials, it's clear that the government avoided a vote because it was in a minority in the Rajya...

• Lokpal war: It was opposition's plan to 'scuttle' the Bill, says Chidambaram

  A day after the main opposition party, the BJP, alleged that the government manipulated the proceedings in the House to ensure that on Thursday night, the Lokpal Bill was not put to vote in the Rajya Sabha, the government today shot back and insisted that it was indeed the opposition's plant to "scuttle" the Bill through the "ingenious tool of 187 ...

• Anna's village gets a Lokpal, he's four months old

  While Congress defends its actions in Rajya Sabha on Thursday and BJP accuses it of running away from a vote, one tiny village in India has got its own Lokpal. The village - none other than Anna Hazare's very own Ralegan Siddhi - and Lokpal, well not the bill but a baby.

• Congress on Lokpal Bill debate in Rajya Sabha

  Lokpal Bill debate

• Lokpal farce: Top 10 Comments from ndtv.com surfers

  We asked you to comment on the fact that the Lokpal Bill was not put to vote yesterday in the Rajya Sabha. Here are the top 10 responses.

• Lokpal Bill fiasco in Rajya Sabha: A caricature, says TMC, 'fleedom' at midnight, quips BJP

  The morning after it dodged a vote on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the government insists that it did not let down either the country or Parliament. And blames the BJP for the Lokpal no-show. Not so fast, says the BJP. The party says the government prevented the nation from getting a strong Lokpal Bill by choreographing the disturbance which...

• Lokpal Bill continues to be a 'jinxed' affair

  The Lokpal Bill has always appeared to be a jinxed affair, the history of last 40 years shows. With the Rajya Sabha adjourning sine die midnight amid uproar without passing the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011, even after day-long debate, it has once again shown that it was so. In fact, the strange coincidence so far was that the Lok Sabha has got d...

• Team Anna attacks govt for failing to get Lokpal Bill passed in Rajya Sabha

  After the Rajya Sabha session ended sine die without a vote on the Lokpal Bill on Thursday, Team Anna attacked the government on its failure to get the Lokpal bill passed and said that it had showed that nobody can trust the UPA.

• It was orchestrated chaos in Rajya Sabha, alleges Trinamool

  The Trinamool Congress on Thursday said the adjournment sine die of the Rajya Sabha without vote on the Lokpal bill was shameful and a sad day for democracy. "It is shameful, a sad day for democracy. Disappointment is a mild word for it," said Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien.

• Lokpal Bill debate in Rajya Sabha: Transcript

  The Rajya Sabha debated the Lokpal Bill on Thursday. Here's the transcript of the debate.

• Lokpal Bill debate in Rajya Sabha: Highlights of Abhishek Manu Singhvi's speech

  As the Lokpal Bill is being debated in the Rajya Sabha, here are the highlights of what Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Congress spokesperson, said on the floor of the Upper House.

• Jaitley vs Singhvi: The big fight on Lokpal Bill

  The BJP and the government continued to spar over the Lokpal Bill as the Rajya Sabha witnessed some sharp exchanges between Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley and Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi today.

• Lokpal Bill debate in Rajya Sabha: Jaitley slams govt for 'constitutional cocktail'

  Highlights of what BJP's Arun Jaitley said during the Lokpal Bill debate in Rajya Sabha.

• Narayanasamy tables Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha

  As the Lokpal Bill is being debated in the Rajya Sabha, here are the highlights of what Minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office, V Narayanasamy, said on the floor of the Upper House.