Congress refused to be drawn into a debate on the issue of execution of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins even as its ally DMK have stepped up their campaign for getting them reprieve.
The Congress today refused to be drawn into a debate on the issue of execution of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins even as its ally DMK and some other parties in Tamil Nadu stepped up their campaign for getting them reprieve.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi also refused to comment on the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopting a unanimous resolution, moved by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, yesterday asking the President to reconsider mercy petitions of three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
"This is a purely a constitutional and legal and then an administrative process. Congress has no role into it and won't like to comment on it," Singhvi said.
Asked about the Madras High Court decision staying their execution fixed for September 9 for eight weeks, Singhvi said this validated the party's point that this was essentially a Constitutional process followed by legal and administrative procedures. LOKPAL COMMITTEE
ZCZC PRI GEN NAT.NEWDEL DEL120 LOKPAL COMMITTEE Team Anna can again appear before Standing Committee on Lokpal New Delhi, Aug 30 (PTI)
Team Anna could once again appear before a Parliamentary panel scrutinising the Lokpal Bill and its various versions.
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan and RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal - the two associates of Gandhian Anna Hazare - today met Abhishek Singhvi, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice.
"We had come to find out how the Standing Committee will proceed and the time it will take," Bhushan told reporters after his 40-minute interaction with Singhvi.
Bhushan quoted Singhvi as saying that all those interested in giving their suggestions on Lokpal issue would be invited and the Committee will consider "all the bills."
The Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by team Anna was referred to the Committee by DoPT recently while the official Lokpal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha was referred to the panel on August 8.
"He said the deadline of October-end for the Committee to complete its report will be met so that it (the Bill) could be considered in the winter session of Parliament," Bhushan said quoting Singhvi.
He said Team Anna could be called by the Committee in the last week of October and perhaps on yet another occasion to place its views.
Soon after the Lokpal Bill was referred to the Committee, Hazare and his associates had deposed before it and said the panel should ask the government to withdraw the Lokpal Bill as it would "encourage corruption".
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