Shanthi Bhushan Not Irreplaceable: Hegde
posted on Apr 21, 2011 @ 12:58PM
Commenting on the two 10,000 sq m farmhouse plots that Shanti Bhushan and his son Jayant Bhushan got from the Mayawati government, former Supreme Court judge and fellow member of the Lok Pal Bill drafting committee Santosh Hegde said that had such information come out in the public domain earlier, Bhushan would probably have not made it to the joint committee.
Mr. Hegde said "Shanti Bhushan is not irreplaceable. If all this would have been known earlier, people who were advising Anna ji and he himself (Anna Hazare) probably would not have included them in the committee. There are many other eminent lawyers but the problem would not end there. My only and biggest apprehension is that if you remove Bhushans from the joint drafting committee, there would be more allegations. As we are at a point from where either we go forward or the committee is doomed. And if that would happen, for the next 40 years, either we won’t have a Lokpal or have a weak, sarkari bill," Hegde said.