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It is just raising the issue to earn some brownie points,” Pant claimed.Meanwhile, after lunch break, Congress members boycotted the session over the Lokayukta issue. We wonder who the government is trying to save by not handing over the probe to CBI.”Responding to the opposition’s allegations, parliamentary affairs minister Prakash Pant said that the present government tabled the new Lokayukta Bill, drafted on the lines of the strong Lokayukta bill introduced during former BJP CM BC Khanduri’s tenure, in 2017. The state government is not serious on the issue.”State Congress president and MLA from Chakrata, Pritam Singh, alleged that the government is scared of appointing Lokayukta in the state. BJP talks of zero tolerance against corruption but is doing nothing on the issue of Lokayukta.”She added, “We supported the Lokayukta bill when it was brought in the House. The bill was then sent to the select committee, which has just met four times since its first meeting in April 2017..