Singh Caps Year of Failure With India Anti-Graft Law Stymied
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to win passage of his anti-corruption bill as an uproar broke out in India’s upper house of parliament, capping a year of setbacks that stirred concern over a wrecked economic agenda.
Proceedings were adjourned late yesterday after a lawmaker snatched papers from a minister and flung them across the chamber. The leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the upper house, Arun Jaitley, accused the government of scripting the disturbance as it realized it was unable to win a vote on the measure that would create a graft-fighting agency.