Lok Sabha passes Lokpal Bill

New Delhi: Lok Sabha passes constitutional amendment bill, Ayes- 321, Noes – 71, Abstaining – 2, Total – 394.  Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 passed as amended Motion to include media and NGOs receiving foreign funds under Lokpal voted negative.  The numerical strength of the treasury benches working in its favour in the clause by clause amendment voting. 

 SP and BSP on Tuesday staged a walk out from the Lok Sabha shortly before the voting on the Lokpal Bill in protest against government bringing a "weak" legislation.

"We had demanded a strong Lokpal. It is not strong. It is sarkari Lokpal. There is no meaning to it. It was brought in a hurry and under Anna Hazare's pressure," SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters.

Asked why did he not protest against the bill in the House by voting against it, Yadav said, "We don't want to support BJP."

BSP leader Dara Singh Chauhan said the party MPs walked out of the House in protest against government's refusal to accept their demand of bringing the CBI under