Lokpal Debate

• Another logjam? BJP demands debate on Lokpal in Parliament

  A united Opposition has set the tone for the Budget Session, raising the Lokpal issue in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday morning and demanding a debate immediately. The government, while assuring the Opposition that it is committed to setting up a strong anti-corruption body, is not ready to discuss the matter now. In a deja vu moment, is Parliament h...

• BJP moves notice to suspend Question Hour to debate Lokpal Bill

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the Opposition to allow Parliament to function in the Budget Session that began on Monday, but the BJP is working to its own plan. On Day 2 of the session, today, the BJP has moved a notice to suspend the Question Hour for a discussion on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha. A demand that puts it on collision cour...

• BJP wants discussion on Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha today

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Opposition to allow Parliament to function in the Budget Session that began on Monday, but the BJP is working to its own plan. On Day 2 of the session, today, it wants Question Hour suspended for a discussion on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha.

• Congress slams BJP for casting aspersions on Rajya Sabha Chairman

  Congress today came down heavily on BJP for casting aspersions on Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari in the wake of adjournment of the House sine die on Thursday when the Lokpal Bill was being debated.

• Lokpal fiasco: 'Fleedom' at midnight quips BJP, says PM gave his blessing

  The government insists that it did not play dirty to ensure that last night, the Lokpal bill was not put to vote in the Rajya Sabha. "The BJP are the real assassins of democracy," said the Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi. But every major political party today - including Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress - said the government down t...

• I am proud of what I did: Rajniti Prasad

  Rajniti Prasad has said he is proud of himself and has no regrets. And he emphatically says that the chaos he started in the Rajya Sabha yesterday was not orchestrated or planned, but "a spontaneous work of myself." So, he says, there shall be no apology.

• 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.

• No Lokpal. Cornered govt ducks vote, BJP alleges conspiracy in chaos

  India will not get its anti-corruption Lokpal Bill this year. Minutes ahead of its midnight deadline, the government said the bill would not be put to vote in the Rajya Sabha tonight. The announcement followed 45 minutes of chaos, commotion that the BJP alleged was choreographed because the government which knew it would lose the vote.

• Lalu's MP tears paper in Rajya Sabha during Lokpal Debate

  Rajniti Prasad of Lalu's Rashtriya Janta Dal walked up to V Narayanasamy in the Rajya Sabha this evening and ripped up papers which he then flung while shouting "Lokpal nahin chalega" (Lokpal would not work).

• Jethmalani's remarks on black money create flutter in Rajya Sabha

  Noted advocate and BJP member Ram Jethmalani created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha today when he made certain remarks against persons having money stashed away in Swiss banks.

• Rajya Sabha: Will Lokpal vote happen?

  The government is keen to duck a vote tonight on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha. The BJP will try its best to enforce one. If a vote has to take place, it must occur before midnight when this session of Parliament expires. If the deadline is missed, President Pratibha Patil will have to sanction an extension. That won't be necessary, said Ra...

• 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.

• Lokpal in Rajya Sabha: How the numbers stack up

  As the government Thursday pushed for the Lokpal bill in the Rajya Sabha where it is in a minority, a look at the numbers each party has in the upper house.

• Anna returns to Ralegan Siddhi; jail bharo, other agitations suspended

  Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare has been advised a week of complete rest by his doctors, a day after his much-hyped three-day fast in Mumbai came to an abrupt end.