Rajya Sabha Debates Lokpal Bill

• 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.

• Letters exchanged between Rahul Gandhi, Anna Hazare

  Congress number two Rahul Gandhi and Gandhian activist Anna Hazare have exchanged letters of admiration and support on the Lokpal Bill, which is expected to be debated and passed in the Rajya Sabha today.

• Anna Hazare writes to Rahul Gandhi, Arun Jaitley over Lokpal Bill

  Congress number 2 Rahul Gandhi and Gandhian activist Anna Hazare have exchanged letters of admiration and support on the Lokpal Bill, which was debated and passed in the Rajya Sabha today.

• Lokpal Bill passed in Rajya Sabha, debate in Lok Sabha tomorrow

  The anti-corruption Lokpal Bill moved a step closer to enactment after it was passed in the Rajya Sabha today 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 an...

• Mulayam against, other parties for Lokpal Bill today

  The anti-corruption Lokpal Bill is scheduled for debate in the Rajya Sabha today. In Maharashtra, activisit Anna Hazare, 76, is on a hunger strike to demand that parliament urgently clear the law.

• 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 ...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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 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 ...

• Lokpal Bill fiasco: Government treated us sloppily, says Mamata's party

  The reverberation of what happened in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday night during the Lokpal Bill debate continues to be felt in the political circles. Now popularly known as the "Lokpal Bill fiasco", or the "midnight mayhem," the issue has brought into sharp focus the deep fissures between the Congress and its largest ally - Mamata Banerjee's Trinamo...

• 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.