New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday defended Government's move to give Constitutional status to proposed Lokpal, saying it gives special guarantee of authority and integrity to an institution.
He also said Rahul Gandhi's aspiration and determination is that Lokpal should be no less than the Constitutional institutions of the country like the Supreme Court.
"Those who don't want Constitutional status must explain to the government and to people why they don't want it? My impression is in this country people seek Constitutional status as a special guarantee of the authority and integrity of an institution," he told a television channel.
To Anna Hazare's accusations that the Government has not fulfilled its promises with regard to the 'Sense of the House' resolution adopted in Parliament in August, he said, "People who are inside the House will understand the sense better than those who are outside."
The Standing Committee members were present in the House and they must understand.
"Hazare's friends speed-read the report. I don't have that capability to speed-read the report. I will read it by evening," he said.
To a specific question, he said, "If Hazare is getting any information about our governing system that information is false. If I start commenting on Hazare's institution that nobody listen to him it would not be a good thing. How would I know whether people listen to him or not?"
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