Buck never stops with him

It is amazing how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tries to pass the buck to others, especially the Opposition, every time he finds that he has painted himself into a corner or that the Government he heads, albeit notionally, is caught in a jam. Mr Singh had no qualms about keeping the Opposition out of the negotiations his emissaries had with Anna Hazare and his team of self-appointed representatives of ‘civil society’ that led to the creation of a ‘Joint Drafting Committee’, something which has never been attempted before and whose constitutional legitimacy remains unresolved, to prepare the draft of the Lokpal Bill for Parliament’s consideration.

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