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NEW DELHI (AFP) – India's government announced Tuesday that it would postpone the planned start of parliament next month, giving it more time to finalise a thorny new anti-corruption bill.
Pawan Kumar Bansal, the minister for parliamentary affairs, told reporters in the capital New Delhi that the new session would commence on August 1 instead of mid-July and "is likely to go up to 8th of September."
He declined to comment on the reasons behind the delay but dismissed speculation that the government was buying time to formulate a tricky new bill.
The government has struggled to draft the new anti-graft bill, known as the Lokpal bill, in consultation with civil society activists who are pushing for tougher provisions on an issue which has stirred widespread public anger.
The two sides have clashed over several areas, including proposals by the activists to make the prime minister, senior judges, and the country's top police agency accountable under the bill.
A string of corruption scandals has badly dented the image of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle before the new parliament, Indian news reports said Tuesday.
In April, famous veteran anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare forced the government to allow him and other activists to sit on the drafting committee for the new law after he went hunger strike for 98 hours.
India has a dismal record of bringing corrupt senior public officials to justice, with current laws requiring the government's approval before any sitting bureaucrat or minister can be prosecuted.
In six decades only one senior politician, Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh, has been convicted of graft and served a jail term -- for taking a bribe of 25,000 rupees ($557) back in 1949.
Other bills up for consideration in the next parliament include one aimed at preventing the bribery of foreign public officials, as well as the country's first legislation against child sex abuse.
Recent parliamentary business has been severely disrupted by arguments between parties in the ruling coalition and the opposition, leading to repeated adjournments.
In the final session of 2010, no legislation was passed after the opposition forced parliament to adjourn for 32 business days in a row.
The most recent session in February was devoted to clearing the national budget, but after the budget was passed, lawmakers disrupted parliament regularly.
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