considerable merit in hazares three demands including covering entire bureaucracy and citizens charter for public grievances under lokpal and setting up lokayuktas in states maintaining that there should be no conflict with the constitution and it was the responsibility of mps to abide by the constitution the finance minister asserted in parliament that legislation is the domain of the parliament alone sorry we cannot go beyond a certain point legislation is the domain of legislators nobody other than parliament can make a law others can give suggestions executive powers is also limited in making lawsparliament alone can make law he said he questioned demands for withdrawal of the governments lokpal bill currently with the standing committee you have every right to criticise what is the argument and justification for this demand for withdrawal of this bill referring to the governments engagement hazare team he said we tried to convince them i admit we have failed we could not carry conviction with them neither i have intention to score a debating point nor i have intention to contradict anyone mukherjee said if we want to get back the confidence of people we shall have to ensure that premier institutions should function as per norms and rules if we do many issues will be corrected automatically hailing the constitution which has been described as the biggest magna carta he said it is our responsibility to abide by the constitution so that there is no conflict with the desire of our masters so that there is no conflict our constitution is flexible enough to accommodate various ideas it can accommodate various thoughts responding to criticism by opposition parties over dealing with the hazare issue mukherjee said we tried to handle the situation you may call it mismanagement or bungling i will not join issue with you hailing hazare he said none of us can say the issue is not important the person who is going to fast on the issue in old age and risked his life i accept it mukherjee noted that the lokpal bill could not be passed for 40 years despite legislations in this regard being introduced eight times and said that he admitted the lapse of his partys governments like swaraj did earlier therefore if somebody is making agitation sitting on fast demanding participation in consultations we tried but it is unfortunate we did not agree on all points he said referring to the involvement of hazare team in joint drafting of the lokpal bill he said out of 40 principles there was agreement on 34 aspects at the same time he said there should be difference between democracy and mobocracy in the government bill which is under consideration of standing committee substantial number of principles basic ideas have been incorporated on six issues there were differences and line of communication was snapped after which agitation was undertaken by hazare he underlined that corruption is an important issue but one piece of legislation however strong and empowered it