Bedi: Without CBI, Lokpal is just 'Enquiry Pal'

December 01, 2011 11:32

Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today contended that the Parliamentary Standing Committee recommendations on Lokpal Bill will only help in making the ombdusman an 'Enquiry Pal' with no powers at all. Bedi said Anna Hazare and his supporters did not fight for such an anti-corruption watchdog.

Contending that they had not agitated for "another CVC which does not have any power, she said, "Without CBI, Lokpal is an 'Enquiry Pa'l. But in the report CBI is the Chief Chef for cooking (investigations) and Lokpal the bearer (prosecution) serving what is there."

"The CBI is hamstrung. It needs to be set free. Its current occupants need help. Why is the government not letting the CBI go? That's because the government is afraid of losing control of the CBI," she said.

"Do we let this enslavement continue? Or strive to change it? I pray that the Opposition unites to bring the CBI's anti corruption wing under Lokpal," she said.

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