Congress slams opposition parties for supporting Hazare

Congress party has slammed the opposition for extending support to social activist Anna Hazare''s crusade over the Lokpal Bill, even after it being tabled in the Indian Parliament

Congress slams opposition parties for supporting Hazare

Congress party has slammed the opposition for extending support to social activist Anna Hazare''s crusade over the Lokpal Bill, even after it being tabled in the Indian Parliament

Talking to reporters here, Congress party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said political parties are exploiting the movement for their own benefit.

"Today, though it may seem temporarily expedient or politically advantageous for you (political parties), we ask you to consider the repercussions on democracy and the political process itself," said Singhvi.

He said that their (Opposition) support to Hazare over the bill, which is now a property of the Parliament, is the ignorance of history and a humungous ignorance of the Constitutional process and law of the country.

Justifying the Delhi Police''s act of arresting Hazare and his associates, Singhvi said: "If Delhi Police, of course in its wisdom, has imposed certain reasonable restrictions nobody is suggesting that I, you, Delhi Police or civil society is infallible; they are very wrong if anybody is aggrieved by any lack of reasonableness in any restriction, what is the only method known, it is to go to the only dispute redressal mechanism namely the courts."

He asserted that the Standing Committee of the Parliament which has also heard Hazare over his issues in its current form and it would be an insult to further press on the bill over only one adaptation.

"To insist that only one version of the bill is good for the country, will I submit be a negation of parliamentary process, it will be a rejection of the rule of law. It will be a nullification of the Indian constitution and it will be an insult to all political parties, indeed an insult to the political process itself," he said.

He also stressed by saying that Congress is the only party to take maximum steps in order to curb graft and it is determined to deal with scourge effectively.

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