New Delhi: Union Cabinet is likely to discuss on August 6 and give final shape to the draft Bill on electoral reforms providing for disqualifying a person from contesting the elections to Parliament and Assemblies if he was convicted in a criminal case by a court of Law.

"The Bill prepared on the basis of the consensus achieved at the August 2 all-party meeting is likely to be placed before the Union Cabinet tomorrow which will give the final shape to it," highly placed government sources said.

However, Law Minister Jana Krishnamurthi said, "The Bill was in advanced stage of drafting. We would like to place it before the Parliament in the monsoon session itself."

As the session comes to an end on August 14, the government will have to introduce the Bill within a week for necessary debates in both Houses before its enactment as Law.

"The draft Bill provides that the disqualification of a person to contest the elections would be based only on his final conviction," Krishnamurthi said.

He said the other important point in the draft Bill was that all elected members have to declare their assets and liabilities to the Speaker of Lok Sabha, chairman of Rajya Sabha and the Speakers of Assemblies as the case may be.

The last all-party meeting had struck down a government proposal to base the disqualification to contest elections on framing of charges in two cases of heinous crime.

PTI