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Does corruption have a caste? Lokpal quotas are a lunacy

The rush to find an all-party consensus on setting up an anti-corruption agency has found expression in the predictable lunacy of caste- and community-based reservations for the proposed Lokpal. According to The Asian Age, the draft Cabinet note prepared by the Cabinet Secretary envisages the Lokpal panel as a nine-member constitutional body (headed by a chairman) with 50 percent reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.

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