Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi batted strongly for the Lokpal Bill, saying it was a “serious weapon to fight corruption”. Showing a new, proactive face of the party as he had promised after the recent assembly election reverses, Gandhi, accompanied by a battery of senior ministers at the Congress party headquarters said the Lokpal Bill was a matter of “national importance” and will completely transform the issue of corruption. “What we have now is a bill where we have broad consensus.

Rahul Gandhi believes that the Jan Lokpal bill will transform the issue of corruption