The Congress wants the government to toughen its stand against the pressure tactics by the civil society groups led by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev saying that their “my way or highway” approach should not be encouraged.
Making it clear that powers to a Lokpal as suggested by the Anna Hazare-led civil society group cannot be accepted
as such a Lokpal would turn into another Yahya Khan or Ayub Khan, the Congress officials said how can Anna Hazare represents the entire civil society and dictate a Lokpal bill. But a section of the Congress foresees opposition to a Lokpal bill to be brought by the government in the coming session of Parliament, along the party line.
Confrontation between the government, civil society groups and the Opposition is expected to intensify further in the coming days.
Meanwhile, dubbing Ramdev and Anna Hazare as “masks” of destabilising forces, the Congress on Tuesday, alleged a conspiracy of national subversion has been undertaken jointly by the forces of right reaction and left anarchism.
He said the forces of right reaction and forces of left anarchism have come together in the conspiracy of subversion. This, he said, was happening beca-use of four reasons — nervousness of Sangh Parivar after the investigations in Samjhauta Express poi-nted fingers towards people associated with RSS and mounting evidence against Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The two other reasons were “desperation” of the BJP’s Prime Minister in-waiting and the attempt by the Left ideology to derive mileage from the situation.
“Are we going to allow stability of the government and basic structure of the Constitution to be compromised?” he asked.
Talking separately, AICC general secretary B.K. Hariprasad accused Mr L.K. Advani of “outsourcing” Opposition role to Hazare and Ramdev after losing in two elections and said the senior BJP leader was an “old man in a hurry” to become PM.