The state cabinet secretariat department principal secretary Ravi Kant said that since it is a Money Bill, the draft has been sent to the governor.

It would be after his consent that the Bill would be tabled in the two Houses.

Though nothing has been disclosed about the draft of the Bill sent to Raj Bhawan media reports suggest that it was revised in the light of suggestions that came from various quarters. The committee for selecting the Lokayukta would now not have the chief minister and leader of opposition in it as was suggested in the earlier version.

The committee, to be headed by the Chairman of the State Legislative Council, would have the Assembly speaker and two sitting judges of the Patna high court as its members.

If the government has really revised the draft and made suitable changes, as is being reported in a section of Press, it has done so under the pressure from Team Anna and Bharastachar Virodhi Jan Pahal (Citizens’ Initiative Against Corruption), a group of scholars, academics, lawyers and social activists, who have come up with their own draft. They have even decided to stage a protest march on the first day of the Winter Session on December 2 to press for amendment in the original draft.

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