New Delhi: In a possible blow to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the Jan Lokpal Bill, sources say the Law Ministry is likely to agree with the Lieutenant Governor's stand. The L-G had said that the Centre's approval is required for tabling the Bill in the Delhi assembly.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has sought a response from Kejriwal-led Delhi Government on a plea seeking to restrain it from holding session outside the Assembly to fulfil the poll promise of clearing the Jan Lokpal Bill.
"Is there any provision to hold Assembly session outside the designated place?," a bench of justices BD Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul said and asked the Delhi government counsel to apprise it of the stand of the Government by Thursday. "If we are satisfied that the petition is pre-mature then we will throw it out. But you will have to answer some queries," it said.
The court was hearing the petition filed by Kedar Kumar Mandal, a professor with Delhi University, seeking to restrain the Kejriwal government from holding the session outside the Assembly building on the ground that it is a "populist" decision which is not in consonance of the settled law.
(With additional information from PTI)
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