No need for laws like Lokpal, says Omar Abdullah

December 29, 2011 22:43

Next speaker, Mohammed Shafi of the National Conference, lists his problems with the Lokpal bill as tabled.

Even as Shafi continued, his party's chief minister in Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, has said there was no need for special laws like Lokpal as his state already had such provisions.

"What Anna Hazare is demanding today, our state has already enacted such laws long back," he told a public meeting in Ganderbal district.

Jammu and Kashmir was the first state in the country which had implemented the Public Services Guarantee Act, Omar said.

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