Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal said, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has written a letter to speaker seeking her permission to make the statement in the House at 11 AM.
Amid demands from Team Anna, a move to take up a discussion on Friday in the Lok Sabha on the Lokpal issue turned contentious with BJP-led NDA opposing the debate under rule 193, which does not entail voting, forcing adjournment of the House for an hour. Later briefing the newsmen, Mrs. Swaraj alleged that the government is taking such a serious matter very casually.
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has expressed confidence that a way out will be found for holding debate on lok pal issue. Mrs. Kumar was talking to reporters after coming out of all party meet.
The main ruling Congress and the opposition BJP got divided on the mode of the debate on Jan Lokpal and documents prepared by NGO activist Aruna Roy and Dr. Jai Prakash Narain of Lok Satta party.
While the government is in favour of discussions under a rule which does not provide for voting, the opposition BJP has moved a resolution for discussion which entails voting. The Congress resolution has been moved by Sandeep Dikshit while the opposition notice has been given by the leader of the Opposition Mrs. Sushma Swaraj.
In Rajya Sabha, similar motion has been moved by the leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley.