Anna Hazare Sibal

• Lokpal Bill passed in Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha to debate it today

  The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Lokpal Bill, which provides for the appointment of a powerful anti-graft ombudsman to investigate wrongdoing in government, ending years of dithering as public anger has mounted over a string of corruption scandals.

• Rajya Sabha passes Lokpal Bill: who said what

  The Lokpal Bill has been passed in the Rajya Sabha after a debate that took place in an atmosphere of rare political consensus. The Bill will be taken up in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, the government announced soon after its ally Samajwadi Party backed down on its threat to block the bill at any cost.

• Signs of reconciliation, will support Kejriwal if he runs for office: Anna

  Activist Arvind Kejriwal's courtesy call to his mentor, Anna Hazare, hasn't taken long to show dividends. 75-year-Anna said this evening that if Mr Kejriwal runs for office, he will support him. "And if he stands against (minister) Kapil Sibal from Chandni Chowk, I will personally campaign for him," he quipped

• Lokpal row: PM holds high-level meet, Pranab briefs Cabinet

  The Prime Minister today chaired a high-level meeting on the cabinet note to be circulated ahead of tomorrow's cabinet meet on the Lokpal Bill. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy were at that meeting.

• Anna issue handled inappropriately: Congress MP

  In a letter to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Praveen Singh Aron said the issue was dealt with "inappropriately" and sought a "thorough inquiry" within the party to ascertain whether it was done deliberately or was a mistake.

• Team Anna blames Sibal, Chidambaram

  As Anna Hazare's fast entered the tenth day on Thursday, his team accused "some strong elements" in the government of nullifying the entire dialogue process and said that they have become victims of Congress' "internal politics".

• Anna: Government defaming me; Sawant report doesn't say I am corrupt

  It was a defiant Anna Hazare that faced the cameras on Sunday evening. Taking on the government, who had charged him with allegations of corruption, Hazare stated his innocence and challenged the government to prove otherwise. ''There is nothing more undemocratic than what Anna is doing. The Lokpal Bill is the property of the Parliament not that o...

• Press release: Team Anna's referendum on Lokpal Bill

  Anna Hazare and his supporters took their battle for a new tough law against corruption to Kapil Sibal's doorstep today. They conducted what they describe as a referendum in his constituency - Delhi's Chandni Chowk - and said an overwhelming majority of voters support their version of the Lokpal Bill. A sarcastic Mr Sibal said, "They are being mode...

• Anna's poll on Sibal's turf: '82% want PM under Lokpal'

  Anna Hazare and his supporters took their battle for a new tough law against corruption to Kapil Sibal's doorstep today. They conducted what they describe as a referendum in his constituency - Delhi's Chandni Chowk - and said an overwhelming majority of voters support their version of the Lokpal Bill.

• Civil society not to be used again in drafting of law: Sibal

  After a not-so-pleasant experience of engaging with Anna Hazare's team in drafting of the Lokpal Bill, the government says that there will be no such experiment in the future.HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, one of the key members of the joint committee for drafting the Lokpal Bill, also maintains that it cannot be cited as a precedent.He says the draft o...

• Lokpal meet: One step forward, two big steps back

  Today's crucial meeting on the Lokpal Bill seemed like a case of one step forward, two steps back.  And that one step forward was a baby step. The ministers working on the Lokpal Bill feel their meeting today with activists headed by Gandhian Anna Hazare was a "breakthrough."  Team Hazare was less effusive.  While agreeing that today...

• Consensus evasive, two drafts of Lokpal Bill likely

  More birthing pains for the law that's aimed at checking corruption in India. After the seventh meeting of the drafting panel today, the activists who're drafting the bill along with five ministers said that the meeting was a write-off. "It was not good...nothing came of it," said Arvind Kejriwal, an activist-member of the committee. (Watch)Mr Kejr...

• Kejriwal takes on Sibal, says what's wrong in calling ministers 'cheats'

  Rights activist Arvind Kejriwal today launched a scathing attack on Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, asking him what was wrong in civil society members calling ministers "liars, cheats and conspirators."He also demanded that all political leaders should declare their assets and liabilities like the civil society members of the joint Lokpal drafting ...

• Civil society members to attend Lokpal meet

  Civil society members of the Lokpal Bill drafting committee are to meet today after sulking for a day, over the events surrounding Baba Ramdev's eviction from his protest fast at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday. Terming the incidents at the Ramlila Maidan as the reason for their boycott on Monday, the five-member team of civil society representatives ...

• How can Anna Hazare call us cheats, asks Kapil Sibal

  The tenuous relationship between the government and civil society activists led by Anna Hazare seems to now be in the hazard zone.  Senior minister Kapil Sibal took on Mr Hazare for deciding to skip today's meeting of the committee that's drafting the new law against corruption, the Lokpal Bill. Mr Sibal also suggested that the government is r...