After the Jan Lokpal Bill, Team Anna on Monday began a campaign for a strong Lokayukta Bill to target all those states where Assembly elections are due early next year.
To start with, the Team Anna comprising Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan arrived here to meet Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri to hand him over their suggestions for a tough and effective Lokayukta Bill against corruption.
Team Anna has come to Uttarakhand where Assembly elections are due in February at the invitation of Khanduri.
“We would provide all suggestions for enacting a tough and effective Lokayukta in Uttarakhand against the corruption," said Kejriwal.
Soon after taking over as Uttarakhand chief minister on September 11, Khanduri had declared that his government would bring a fresh strong Lokayukta Bill where suggestions of Jan Lokpal draft Bill of Anna Hazare would also be incorporated within two months.
In this regard, Kejriwal and Bhushan said that a draft Bill of Jan Lokpal was also given to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar six months ago but a response from his side is yet to come.
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To a question, the two said their crusade for a strong Jan Lokpal would continue with a hope that the Jan Lokpal would become a top poll plank during the Assembly elections of various states like
Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand, which are due in the next 8 to 10 months.
“We would launch an active campaign against those political parties who oppose the Jan Lokpal in Parliament,” Bhushan said.
Kejriwal said the stand of political parties over the Jan Lokpal would become clear in the next couple of months through the report of the standing committee of the parliament.
Citing example of coming Hissar parliamentary byelection, Kejriwal said all candidates have been asked to present a letter from their party president that their party would issue a whip to its MPs to support Jan Lokpal if they get elected to parliament.