The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi is likely to table the Jan Lokpal bill in the Assembly today, despite the Centre raising an objection saying the process was a violation of law.
PTI
"There is no rethinking in our position. We are going ahead with tabling of the Jan Lokpal Bill," a senior official in the AAP government told PTI.
AAP leader Prashant Bhushan told reporters that his party will seek voting on the introduction of the bill and if both - Congress and BJP - vote against it, then the government will resign.
The Congress, which currently provides support to the government from the outside, and the opposition BJP maintained the government would be violating "constitutional provisions" by not taking the approval of the L-G and the Centre before introducing the bill in the House.
"Despite knowing that the move (to not obtain prior approval from the Centre) is unconstitutional, Kejriwal is trying to justify it. The Congress will continue to support the government, but Kejriwal is creating a situation himself to leave the government," Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely had said on Wednesday.
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