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Union Law Minister Jana Krishnamurthy had called a high-level meeting on Tuesday to discuss ways and means to incorporate the various suggestions that emerged at Monday's meeting, sources in the ministry said.
The meeting decided to respect the 'laudable' intention behind the May 2 judgment of the Supreme Court while making provisions in the draft Bill to achieve the objective of curbing criminalisation of politics, they said.
The Election Commission had said that candidates failing to make a true disclosure of their criminal antecedents, assets and liabilities, and educational qualification would be disqualified from contesting parliamentary and assembly elections.
The drafting of the Bill would be complete in the next two days and it would then be circulated among all political parties for their views, the sources said.
After getting their views, if needed, another all-party meeting could be convened to give a final shape to the Bill before its introduction in the monsoon session of Parliament, they said.
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