* Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde: The GoM meetings will be held soon. We are confident that the issue will be resolved by Thursday. We will pass the bill by March 22.
* Law and Justice Minister Ashwani Kumar: We will hold discussion in both houses of parliament by March 22. The cabinet met today and all members expressed their views on it openly. The prime minister formed the GoM and we will meet Wednesday or Thursday and I am confident we will arrive at consensus and either Friday or Monday the bill will be taken up in the house.
* Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath: We will pass the bill within the stipulated time-frame. There are differences which will be sorted out soon.
* BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy: The whole country is waiting for the law to be placed and passed in parliament. The government has issued an ordinance which is to expire soon. The law and justice ministry and the home ministry are at logger-heads and we are not interested in battle between the two departments. What we want is a firm law and it should come to parliament so that it is discussed and passed as the country is waiting for the law.
* All India Progressive Women's Association National Secretary Kavita Krishnan: They are again reopening ordinances which were already deliberated upon. This is dismaying. It is apparent that there are voices within the government, who are against bringing a stronger law.
* Lawyer Vrinda Grover: It is a very sad. The government does not have a political will to bring a stronger anti-rape law. There seem to be a political class within the government that does not want a stronger law.
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