Lokpal farce: Fleedom at midnight, says BJP

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 the country by manipulating the proceedings in the House to ensure a vote did not take place before the session of Parliament expired at midnight. "We are very very sad... the government handled it very badly.