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| Unhappy move by Anna Hazare |
FACT: Anna Hazare's team today hit out at Congress for leveling allegations against the Gandhian saying the charges only betrayed the party's "nervousness". The Congress tried to give a blow to Anna by referring Justice Sawant Commission’s report (2005) of spending Rs.2.20 lakhs to celebrate Anna’s birthday.
"Such an allegation speaks of visible nervousness of Anna's call for it has reached out to all victims of corruption," Bedi said. “One has to either crush corruption or be ready to stay crushed by it, August 16 provides an opportunity and Anna will not be here forever,” she said.
"If the Constitution is not followed, if fundamental rights are not allowed, if there is a problem, it seems he is hesitating to take responsibility," activist Arvind Kejriwal alleged.
"It is very depressing that the prime minister of this country says this is too small a matter for him to bother about," Prashant Bhushan, a member of Team Anna, told reporters here.
The Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari claimed that team Anna consists of "armchair fascists, overground Maoists, closet anarchists ...lurking behing forces of right reaction and funded by invisible donors whose links may go back a long way abroad". (ref: newdigitalpoint.com 14 August 2011)
OWL WATCH: The Congress agrees that “overground Maoists” are moving in this movement. But the government is blindfolded till these “overground” people are not harmful to them. Team Anna is a blend of people of different ideas but their target is only the Congress. Is it a movement against corruption led by one of the "civil societies" along with “armchair fascists” supported by Maoists? Is the BJP a shadow player in this game of “corruption”? Surely this movement is not a peoples’ movement of India. "Happy" dependence day for Anna.
