Lokpal Bill Forty-three years after the first draft was conceived, the Union Cabinet on July 28, 2011 approved a Lokpal Bill, Keeping outside its purview a serving Prime Minister, the higher judiciary and the conduct of MPs inside Parliament. But timing the Bill “unacceptable,” social activist Anna Hazare, who had initiated a movement in April demanding the anti-corruption legislation, announced his decision to go on an indefinite fast to press for...