Lok Pal demands probe against the Indian Prime Minister and fourteen members of his cabinet.

Lok Pal demands probe against the Indian Prime Minister and fourteen members of his cabinet. Since the upper house of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) has referred the Lok Pal bill to a select committee of the members of Rajya Sabha, there was a glimmer of hope that the bill would be scraped through in the just concluded summer session of the parliament. However, the bill was not passed and the parliament session concluded without passing the bill. Meanwhile, the Indian Prime Minister including the foreign minister has just gone to Myanmar for an official tour. Since the fate of the bill is hanging in the balance, the leaders of the Lok Pal movement have come up with a charge against the Prime Minister and fourteen of his colleagues and demanded investigation against them through an SIT headed by retired judges. Though Anna Hazare, the leader of the Lok Pal movement is on a tour of Maharashtra, as guided by him, his colleagues have unleashed a charge against the Prime Minister and fourteen other members of his cabinet on the basis of the concrete evidence provided by the CAG report.While the CAG report charges the Prime Minister with corruption on coal import,besides leveling separate charges against his fourteen cabinet colleagues P.Chidambaram, Kabil Sibal,Pranab Mukerji,Sharad Pawar, Farook Abdullah,Azhagiri and others. The Lok Pal leaders also suggested that apart from investigating the PM and his cabinet colleagues through SIT, the cases against them may also be tried in Fast track courts instead of CBI special courts. Since the bulk of the Indian cabinet members including the Prime Minister and 14 others involved in corruption charges, certainly the chances of enacting the anti corruption ombudsman bill into law is remote.However, the Lok Pal leaders are not willing to leave the Lok Pal bill issue just fizzle out.They are even ready to undergo fast unto death under their leader Anna Hazare till the comprehensive bill gets enacted into Lok Pal law. The untiring efforts of the Lok Pal leaders are commendable and certainly they will draw a golden leaf in the annals of their movement by getting the Lok Pal law enacted in the near future.