New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare today broke his 9 day long fast after the Lok Sabha passed the much-awaited Lokpal bill.
The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011, provides for formation of an anti-graft ombudsman.
The bill was passed after a debate that lasted for around 30 minutes.
The Samajwadi party walked out in protest of Lokpal Bill while most of the parties including the two leading parties Congress and BJP supported the bill.
The bill was passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday.
Now this bill has been passed by both houses of the parliament.
This bill will now be sent to President Pranab Mukherjee for his signature.
Once the president puts his signature on this bill, it will become a part of the law of the land.
Urging Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to withdraw the bill, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said: "The bill is dangerous. There will be chaos in the country."
The most prominent of a clutch of anti-graft legislations on the anvil, the Lokpal bill seeks to establish a Lokpal at the central level and asks states to establish Lokayuktas within a year's time from the date of notification of the law. The format of the Lokayukta will be left to the state assemblies to decide.
The bill was first passed by the Lok Sabha at the fag end of the winter session of 2011, but not by the Rajya Sabha, where it was debated but the house was adjourned before voting on it.
A select committee of the Rajya Sabha later suggested changes in the bill which were incorporated and approved by the union cabinet. Following the amendments, the Rajya Sabha passed the bill Tuesday.
