Dec 31, 2011 14:06 (IST)BJP wanted to scuttle the Lokpal Bill, says ChidambaramWatch Home Minister P Chidambram's address to the media on the Lokpal Bill that could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha.Dec 31, 2011 14:05 (IST) People are beginning to realise law making is complex exercise that needs to be left to law making bodies.Dec 31, 2011 14:02 (IST) There will be maximum of three or three refinements. No way 187 amendments can be accommodated. It would become an unrecognisable bill. Dec 31, 2011 14:01 (IST) We are not redrafting the bill. We may refine and redefine a clause to accommodate the TMC. Dec 31, 2011 13:57 (IST) Why should I comment on Team Anna drawing a small crowd or a large crowd?Dec 31, 2011 13:56 (IST)Who thought they will introduce 187 amendments in the Rajya Sabha? Dec 31, 2011 13:54 (IST) The government bent backwards to accommodate the BJP. We accommodated Sushma Swaraj, Laloo Yadav in Lok Sabha. Dec 31, 2011 13:53 (IST) I don't want to comment on what Kiran Bedi said.Dec 31, 2011 13:53 (IST) We were taken by surprise by the TMC. They changed their position after we thought we convinced them in the Lok Sabha.Dec 31, 2011 13:52 (IST) I have never come across a situation where a bill is passed in one House with a few amendments gets stuck in another House because the same parties now wanted 187 amendments.Dec 31, 2011 13:50 (IST) Congress voted for the Lokpal Bill. BJP voted against it. Record shows who supported it and who opposed it.Dec 31, 2011 13:49 (IST) In the Budget Session, we have to make a set of changes that are acceptable to a majority. It's a long and hard session ahead.Dec 31, 2011 13:49 (IST)We thought we had convinced the Trinamool. But they changed their position after December 27. We failed to convince them. But we are sure we can take them with us in the future.Dec 31, 2011 13:47 (IST) RJD MP was a sideshow. The real obstacle was the BJP.Dec 31, 2011 13:45 (IST) Fortunately, the bill is safe. It is not defeated. We will take it up in the budget session.Dec 31, 2011 13:44 (IST) Never heard of 187 amendments in the Rajya Sabha. Can't recall any such instance.Dec 31, 2011 13:43 (IST) I do not know who fixed with whom. But there was no fixing between Congress and BJP. We were rivals and we are rivals. But BJP got into a understanding with two or three political parties to come up with 187 amendments.Dec 31, 2011 13:41 (IST) After BJP came up with 187 amendments, even if we had accepted them, the bill could not have been passed on the December 29th or the 30th because the bill would have had to come back to Lok Sabha.Dec 31, 2011 13:40 (IST) We had the numbers in Lok Sabha. So we passed it. We did not have the numbers in Rajya Sabha. So the bill could not be passed there.Dec 31, 2011 13:39 (IST) BJP stuck to the ingenious tool of 187 amendments.Dec 31, 2011 13:38 (IST) BJP did not support the Lokpal Bill. They did not have the intention to pass the Lokpal Bill.Dec 31, 2011 13:37 (IST) Government has prerogative to make amendmentsAlso ReadMinimum Wage, Agnipath: P Chidambaram's 5 Demands From Nirmala Sitharaman"Show Me Credible Data": P Chidambaram Questions Budget Job ClaimsVideo: Foreigner Claims She Was Denied Entry Into Kerala Temple, Congress' Karti Chidambaram Reacts