Govt working on right to recall idea, Khurshid

Lawyer-turned-politician, Khurshid, said the demand for right to recall of elected representatives was a difficult task, but the government was “working on that.”
“We have a very strong lobby that is questioning us on the need to introduce the right to reject,” Khurshid said speaking on “Bharat and India: Challenges and Ambitions” at the Asian Forum for Global Governance here.

Speaking about the difficulties in implementing such a law, the minister said: “Right to recall in a constituency that has more than 1.5 million voters. Get signatures from 100 thousand or 50 thousand, authenticate those signatures is not an easy job. But we are working on that.”

The all-party meeting which  expected to take place either this month or in November, depending on the availability of party leaders, would be  addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.