FACT: Bringing Prime Minister under the Lokpal would result in "institutionalised permanent instability" at the Centre,Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. Two days after the Union Cabinet approved the Lokpal bill that keeps out PM from its ambit much to the anger of the civil society, Mukherjee, who chaired the joint drafting committee with Anna Hazare's team, strongly defended the decision. "In this time of frenzy, anybody can write to the Lokpal and make a complaint. If the Lokpal prima facie sees merit in it...the Prime Minister will have to resign. "Prime Minister is the keystone in our system and if he goes, then the entire government goes. This way you will institutionalise permanent instability," he told PTI. (thehindu.com July 30 2011)OWL WATCH: Congress want to be with “the keystone unturned”. Pranab Mukherji meant that some gravels would take shelter beneath the keystone when gravels are to be searched by "Lokpal" otherwise people will initialize permanent disability of Congress.
