New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Wednesday meet President A P J Abdul Kalam to articulate the Government's position after the latter returned the controversial Office of Profit Bill to Parliament for reconsideration.
Singh, who held consultations with Law Minister H R Bhardwaj and other legal and constitutional experts, will meet Kalam at 1700 hrs (IST) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, official sources said.
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Tuesday night returned the Office of Profit of Bill for reconsideration by both Houses of Parliament asking for "comprehensive and generic" criteria for the exemptions.
The criteria should be "fair and reasonable" and applicable in a "clear and transparent" manner across all states and union territories, he said while returning the Bill.
He urged both Houses of Parliament to reconsider the propriety of the applying the law with retrospective effect.
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