Lokpal joint committee to meet on Saturday

This is the first meeting of the joint committee

PTI | April 13, 2011



The first meeting of the newly-constituted joint committee comprising ministers and civil society activists to draft the Lokpal Bill will be held on Saturday.

To be held on April 16, the meeting will be chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is the chairman of the committee formed by the government to draft the bill following an agitation launched by social activist Anna Hazare, sources in the government said.

Besides Mukherjee, members of the committee are home minister P Chidamabaram, law minister Veerappa Moily (convenor), HRD minister Kapil Sibal and water resources minister Salman Khurshid.

The civil society will be represented by Hazare, former supreme court judge N Santosh Hegde, former law minister Shanti Bhushan (co-chairperson), lawyer Prashant Bhushan and RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal.

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