Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’

The government on Tuesday said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal, embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi. "We are working on a very strong Lokpal bill. A Lokpal bill that will come with a constitutional amendment. That amendment will give the Lokpal the status of a constitutional authority," law minister Salman Khurshid told PTI on Tuesday. 

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