Jaitley: LokpalBill can lead to havoc in

ConstitutionNew Delhi: The opposition today slammed the

Lokpal Bill saying itwould lead to “consti-tutional havoc” as theCentre would be en-couraged to “usurp”rights of states throughthe provision of settingup of Lokayuktas.

Initiating the debatein the Rajya Sabha,Leader of the Opposi-tion Arun Jaitley alsoopposed minority quo-

ta in the Lokpal bench, inclusion of NGOs andkeeping CBI out of the purview of the om-budsman.

“If you are creating history, let us not createbad history. We will be leaving a lot of task forthe next generation to do,” he said.

He made it clear the BJP would not supportthe Bill in the present form. “Please acceptamendments that the colleagues have moved,”he said.

Going clause-by-clause in the Lokpal andLokayuktas Bill, 2011, Mr. Jaitley said the om-budsman was “designed to be vulnerable to con-stitutional challenge. Let us create an institu-tion which is constitutionally possible.”

Referring to the provision on the setting upof Lokayuktas in the state, the BJP leader andnoted lawyer said it would lead to creating “agrey area” by which the Centre can usurp pow-ers of states. “Why are you creating a constitu-tional havoc? The government is trying to makeconstitutional cocktail,” he said.

Mr. Jaitley said the government wants to sub-vert an institution even before its creation.“You want to kill it in the womb,” he alleged.

“You wanted to create a phoney Lokpal andcreate a smokescreen that you are giving a con-stitutional status,” he said taking a jibe at theproposal that was included at the instance ofCongress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Mr. Jaitley said his party objected to three “ab-surd and unworkable” provisions of the bill.

With regard to CBI, Mr. Jaitely wanted it to beunder the purview of Lokpal with a directorateof prosecution. “An effective Lokpal needs aneffective investigating agency like the CBI. Youare creating a Lokpal so that it becomes a rud-derless institution,” he charged.

He also opposed inclusion of NGOs andtrusts within the purview of Lokpal, saying it was“revenge provision” and would create a systemwhich would be intrusive in the private life.

“I don’t think members of this House will sup-port you on this,” the BJP leader said.

On the provision for quota of “at least” 50 percent for minorities in the 9-member Lokpalbench, he said it was to designed to make thelaw “vulnerable to constitutional challenge”, assomebody could move court.

The government has majority in the 5-mem-ber panel that would appoint the Lokpal. Andthen the power to remove is vested with theSupreme Court, which can be approached byonly the government.

“If Lokpal is biased in favour of the govern-ment, the beneficiary of the bias will decide ifan appeal can be filed against the appointment,”he said.

Mr. Jaitley said his party was for a strong andindependent Lokpal but opposed a “weak andphoney” anti-graft ombudsman.

Food inflationplunges to

six‑year lowNew Delhi: Food inflation fell sharply to a six-year low of 0.42 per cent in the week ended De-cember 17 as prices of essential items like veg-etables, onion, potato and wheat declined.

Food inflation, as measured by WholesalePrice Index (WPI), stood at 1.81 per cent in theprevious week. It was recorded at 15.48 per centin the corresponding week of 2010.

According to official data released today,onions grew cheaper by 59.04 per cent year-on-year during the week under review, while po-tato prices were down by 33.76 per cent.

Prices of wheat also fell by 3.30 per cent.Overall, vegetables became 36.02 per cent

cheaper during the week ended December 17.Experts feel the sharp fall in food inflation

numbers, which was in double digits till the firstweek of November, comes as a big relief to boththe government and the Reserve Bank, who havebeen battling high prices for over two years.

It will also be a major incentive for the RBI tolook at the option of key interest rate cuts at itsnext quarterly monetary policy review in Jan-uary.

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India suffer humiliating defeat in Boxing Day Test

Melbourne: India’s famed batting line-upproduced yet another spineless display tocrash to an embarrassing 122-run defeat inthe first cricket Test and hand Australia a 1—0 lead in the four-match Test series here to-day.

Chasing a target of 292 in the second in-nings, India’s top-order collapsed like aproverbial house of cards against the pace trioof James Pattinson (4/53), Peter Siddle (3/42)and Ben Hilfenhaus (2/39) to be bundled outfor a paltry 169 in 47.5 overs on the final ses-sion of the penultimate day.

India were always up against history as noside since 1963 has made more than 250 runsin the fourth innings at MCG to win a Testmatch.

Sachin Tendulkar promised some ray ofhope during his little cameo of 32 runs, butthe rest of the top—order batsmen cut a sor-ry figure against the Australian quicks andat one stage the tourists had lost four wick-ets for just 22 runs.

Openers Virender Sehwag (7) and GautamGambhir (13) and the senior trio of RahulDravid (10), Tendulkar and VVS Laxman (1)all failed to save the day for India and de-

parted inside the 90—run mark.Young Virat Kohli (0) suffered his second

failure of the match and made matters worseby showing his displeasure at a plumb leg be-fore decision.

Ravichandran Ashwin (30) rode his luckfor a while and skipper Mahendra SinghDhoni (23) was street—smart during his

stay, but the task proved to be too tall for themto achieve once the top—order departedearly.

Sehwag and Gambhir fell on either side oflunch. The dangerous right—hander wascaught by Michael Hussey at gully as he wentfor ferocious cut off Ben Hilfenhaus, while hisleft—handed partner jabbed at a lifting Pe-ter Siddle delivery to be caught in the secondslip by Ricky Ponting.

Tendulkar, who once again entered theground to a standing ovation, came anddrove his first ball into covers for three runsto convey his intentions clear.

An on—drive, with virtually the full faceof the bat, by Tendulkar brought up the 50of Indian innings.

Dravid was sedate but solid at the otherend, yet Pattinson was able to create a hugegap between his bat and pad to knock backhis middle stump. The right—hander hitone four during his 29—ball stay. Dravid’s exitopened the floodgates for Australia.

Laxman took his first run off the seventhball he faced but then flicked Pattinsoninto the hands of Ed Cowan at square leg tomake it four down for 68 runs.

BSY frustratedas he is beingignored in BJP

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Former chief minister B SYeddyurappa’s outburst today againstparty state president K S Eshwarappais anindication that the former is increasing-ly being alienated within the party.

The last screw fell in place when theparty high command yesterday gave aclear go-ahead for SadanandaGowda tocontinue as chief minister, dashing allhopes of comeback bid for Yeddyurappa.

Yeddyurappa is known to have putforth the demand for the party high com-mand and is learnt to have set January 15deadline before the national leaders.

The wounded leader, in all likelihood,would do something drastic in the com-ing days. He would make his mind knownonly on January 15, which will be a land-mark event for the saffron party, which hascome to power for the first time in SouthIndia.

Yeddyurappa also fears that in thecoming days, his support base within theparty would gradually decline and the duoof SadanandaGowda and Eshwarappawould take over the reins completely.That would be disastrous for the BJP

strongman, who was responsible for get-ting the party elected in the state.

His worries have only compoundedwith the JD(S) support to the chief minister.During the recent legislative council elec-tion, the JD(S) did not field a candidateand abstained from voting, allowing aneasy victory for SadanandaGowda. It issaid that JD(S) patriarch H D DeveGowdaand party state president H D Ku-maraswamy have a soft corner forSadanandaGowda as he belongs to theircommunity, Vokkaligas.

The heartburn for Yeddyurappa hasbeen the smooth functioning of the recentassembly session. The opposition coop-erated and the session went off withouta hitch, which was in stark contrast to thesessions during Yeddyurappa regime. Inall the three sessions Yeddyurappapresided over, there was ruckus andHouse committees had to be formed tolook into the problems.

It is learnt that Yeddyurappa evenasked opposition party leaders why theywere keeping quiet on the floor of the as-sembly now.

Now Yeddyurappa is trying hard to gethis grip back on the party.

Youth attacks girl atexam hall in Mysore

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Mysore: A girl was attacked by a youth at anexamination hall here today.

Madhuri, a resident of Gokulam, has re-ceived serious injuries and is being treatedat a private hospital. The boy, Krishna,stormed into the examination hall while Mad-

huri was writing company secretary examand hacked at her with a machete. Madhuritried to evade the swipe and was injured se-riously in the hand.

The bystanders and college staff caught Kr-ishna and handed him over to Jayalaksh-mipuram police. The attacker is said to be aresident of Saraswathipuram.

Eshwarappa sentme to jail: BSYSays party chief nurtures dream of becoming CM

Bangalore: The tussle within the Bharatiya-Janata Party is in the open now. In a sting-ing attack, former chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa today said that party state presi-dent K S Eshwarappa was responsible forsending him to jail.

“Eshwarappa is not satisfied that I had tospend 24 days in jail. Now, he has been mak-ing public statements to imply that I amguilty. He feels that if I am expelled from theparty, he could become the supreme leaderof the party,” Yeddyurappa, who has askedparty high command to make him a chiefminister again, said.

“He has been making statements that I willnot get a position in the party unless clearedof all court cases. It is being repeated over andover. He is talking like the party high com-mand. He has been speaking like the partynational president. Even after he came backfrom New Delhi yesterday, he stated that I amguilty and would not be given a position inthe party. I request him to stop making suchstatements immediately. He should realisethat it is not proper to make these statements.He had been creating trouble since I becamethe chief minister,” he said.

“I did not beg before Eshwarappa for anyposition of power. Neither did I want to be-come the party president. He is nurturing thedream of becoming a chief minister and is try-ing all tricks in the book to realise his aspi-rations. My blessings are with him. But it isnot good for the welfare of the party. Hethinks that he can strengthen the party; lethim do it,” Yeddyurappa, who has reportedlyasked party high command to make him achief minister again, said.

Yeddyurappa, who seemed cornered in the

party, said, “Earlier, it was ‘BJP is Yeddyu-rappa and Yeddyurappa is BJP. Now you willhave to change it to Eshwarappa is BJP andBJP is Eshwarappa’. He is trying to take com-plete control of the party and be the supremeleader.”

He said, “Eshwarappa is the party presi-dent and D V SadanandaGowda is the chiefminister. They are the leaders of our party.”

“I am not the powerful leader of the par-ty, but a mere party worker and a party MLAfrom Shikaripur. Even during the last as-sembly session, I sat in the back benches andobserved the goings on. I did not take part inany discussion. Many tried me to speak, butI did not,” Yeddyurappa said.

Asked whether he would meet party na-

tional leaders to discuss the latest develop-ments, Yeddyurappa said, “I am not goingoutside the state till January 15 due to myhealth and other reasons.

I am touring the state and gathering theviews of the party workers from differentparts. I will take a decision after January 15.But this does not mean I will quit the party.I have worked hard for the growth of the par-ty. I am confident that I can build the partywithout position.”

Asked whether he had placed any demandfor inclusion of his candidates in the cabinetduring the expansion, Yeddyurappa said, “Iwould not like to speak about cabinet ex-pansion and I have not placed any de-mand.”

Govt will collapsesoon, says Cong

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “There is a fear that the pres-ent government would collapse soon.Yeddyurappa’s statement today is an in-dication,” said Congress state presidentG Parameshwara here today.

“The administration in the state has al-ready collapsed. Now the government toowill collapse. There is an atmosphere ofinstability in the state,” he said.

On the problems within his own party,Parmeshwara said that the party has

taken note of thecomplaints of B CPatil and others,who have declaredthat they were frus-trated within theCongress and wouldjoin the NationalCongress Party during the next assemblyelections.

But Parameshwara said that there is nodissidence in the party and correctivesteps were being taken.

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Things thatyou mustnot do in

Metro

Bangalore: The Bangalore MetroRail Corporation Ltd has issueda statement for commuters onwhat not to do while taking thetrain. The BMRCL had alreadyannounced that it would run theservices till 2 am on the NewYear’s Eve.

Here is what it states:l Commuters should not carry

deadly arms and weapons. Vio-lations will carry a fine of Rs5,000 and a jail term of fouryears.

l Rs 500 fine for drunken mis-behaviour and troubling co-pas-sengers. The tickets of troublemakers will also be taken back.

l Rs 1,000 fine or one yearjail, or both if the BMRCL staff istroubled.

l Life term for pre-meditatedattack on commuters.

l 10 years jail for damagingthe property of Metro rail.

l Seven-year jail if the rulesare not followed.

WorkshopBangalore: The Anarghya IASAcademy has organised a work-shop for candidates who are ap-pearing for Karnataka PublicServices Commission exam from9 am on January 1. For more in-formation: Anarghya IAS Acad-emy, 166/E-35, near Prasannatheatre, Tollgate, Magadi mainroad, or call: 9916625400.

Bangalore: The state government hasagreed to extend the deadline for adopt-ing rainwater harvesting systems fromDecember 31 to March 31, BBMP com-missioner ShankarlingeGowda told thepalike council meeting yesterday.

The government earlier set December31 deadline for putting up rainwaterharvesting systems at properties of60x40 sqftdimension and above.

At the meeting yesterday, corporatorsurged the commissioner to solve thedrinking water problem. They were notconvinced even when senior officialsof the Bangalore Urban Water Servicesand Sewerage Board told them that thesteps were being taken.

Congress corporatorSampathraj com-plained, “There has been drinking waterand drainage problem at D J Halli.Though we have complained to theBUWSSB, nothing has been done forthe last eight months. The people inthe area have been facing serious prob-lems because of this.”

He said, “The board has failed toprovide drinking water facilities to the

people of the city. At the same time, ithas asked property owners to installrainwater harvesting systems andwarned that their water supply wouldbe cut if it is not done. The deadlinehas to be extended to allow more prop-erty owners to install these systems.”

Damaged water pumps have not beenrepaired and sufficient water is notbeing supplied to all areas. Water isbeing supplied once in five or six days.Water is being supplied illegally toapartments and multi-storeyed build-ings. With this, the middle-class andpoor people are suffering, the memberscomplained.

“If the problems are not solved on apriority basis, we will lay siege to theCauvery Bhavan (BUWSSB headquar-ters),” they warned.

Chief engineer T Venkataraju repliedthat the north and west divisions ofthe city are not being supplied waterregularly. “We are trying hard to do it.”

ShankalringeGowda said that thegovernment has extended the deadlinefor installing rainwater harvesting sys-

tems till March 31. Water services min-ister S Suresh Kumar has assured theBBMP that the order would be passedsoon, he added.

Middlemen making merryThe BUWSSB is not providing any

certificate for installing rainwater har-vesting systems, neither is it collectingany fee for it, said corporator P B Ra-mamurthy.

Some middlemen have been swin-dling property owners, saying theywould get certificates for rainwater har-vesting systems. These property ownersshould approach the water board di-rectly and get their doubts clarified, headded.

The property owners should visittheir divisional water boards and get itregistered. Inspectors and meter readersshould confirm this in writing. Withthis, the water board will get properdata on installations and would helpthe officers carry out inspections. Thiswill also help in utilising rainwaterproperly, he said.

BBMP to intensify drive to remove flex banners, OFC

Bangalore: The BBMP administration isready to remove flex banners that arespoiling the beauty of the city. It is takingthe help of Bangalore Metropolitan TaskForce police to remove them. Similarly,the BBMP has also taken up a drive to re-move illegal optical fibre cables acrossthe city, palike commissioner Shankar-lingeGowda told the council meeting yes-terday.

The meeting had a long discussion onthe issue. Soon after the House convened,ruling party member B R Nanjundapparaised the issue and said, “Flex bannershave become a major nuisance. Therehave been instances of people attackingBBMP gangmen, who were trying to re-move these banners. Steps should betaken to prevent such incidents.”

“Assistant engineers and assistant ex-ecutive engineers should take the initiativeto get these banners removed with thehelp of BMTF,” he said.

Replying, ShankarlingeGowda saidthat flex banners have become an eyesore.

“Wherever you see, there are these uglybanners. We have to take a tough decisionon removing them.”

“Palike officials will take the help ofBMTF police to prevent anyone from at-tacking the gangmen and other BBMPmen. It does not help if corporators wantto put up banners in some places and toremove in other spots,” he said.

Opposition leader M Udayashankarsaid, “It is estimated that several com-panies have lain over 20,000 km of opticalfibre cables across the city. But they havedeclared that cables have been laid onlyfor 5,000 km. The palike has projected tocollect Rs 780 crore dues from these com-panies. But is it possible to do collect allthe fees before March 31.”

The commissioner replied that approx-imately, 6,000 km of such cables havebeen laid illegally in the city. The palikewill intensify the drive to remove such il-legal cables. The palike will allow thecompanies to lay cables only if they agreeto pay the fee set by the BBMP.

Bars can remain open till 1 am on New Yearʼs Eve

Bangalore: Bars and restaurantswould be allowed to keep theirbusiness open till 1 am on theNew Year’s Eve to allow revellersto enjoy for a longer time, saidcity police commissioner Jyoth-iprakashMirji.

Now, these establishments areallowed to operate only till 11.30pm.

But in view of the New Year’sEve celebrations, the deadlinehas been extended till 1 am, headded.

The people should ring in theNew Year peacefully. They shouldnot affect the law and order sit-uation in the city.

The revellers should take carenot to disturb their neighboursand affect the movement of ve-hicles, he said.

Those who will be driving un-der the influence of alcohol onSaturday night will be bookedlike any other day.

This is being done for the safe-ty of the drivers. The citizensshould not drink and drive.

If anyone wants to drink, theyhave to take a driver, who doesnot drink, along with them, hesaid.

The bars and restaurants whowould like to remain open till 1am have to take special permis-sion from the excise department.These establishments have topay Rs 11,500 as special fee forthe purpose.

The extension of deadline willnot be applicable to wine stores,said excise minister M PRenukacharya.

Siddi yogacamp

Bangalore: The Patanjali YogaSangama Trust has organised a13-day PatanjaliSiddi Yoga campfrom January 1 from 6 am.

Those above 14 years and suf-fering from diabetes, asthama,obesity, arthritis, skin ailments,heart problems and other health issues can take part inthe camp.

For more information, contact:RadhakrishnaKalyanaMantapa,behind Veeresh Talkies, M C Ex-tension, Vijayanagar or call:93425 45188.

Music contest

Bangalore: The VijayaVittalaMusic School, as part of its 12thanniversary, has organised in-strumental music, singing andpainting competitions on January6 at MaradiSubbaiah MarriageHall at Hanumanthnagar.

Differently abled children whohave learnt music or those whohave passed music exams cantake part in the competitions.Call: 9164652229.

Free prayercamp

Bangalore: The Sadhana YogaKendra has organised a freeprayer camp for 10 days fromJanuary 2. Surya Namaskara,pranayama, prayer, naturopathyand other methods with easyasanas would be taught by yogaexperts at the camp.

For information, call:9844756554.

Free campBangalore: The Friends WelfareOrganisation has organised afree plastic surgery camp from10.30 am on January 22 at DrSolanki Eye Hospital on Siroorroad. Cleft lip, upper jaw, noseand burnt injuries will be treatedduring the camp, a press releasestated.

For more information contact:Friends Welfare Organisation,No. 155, SadaraPatrappa road orcall: 9880307780.

Govt extends deadline to install RWH systems