New Delhi, April 05: Congress today termed the indefinite hunger strike by social activist Anna Hazare for a stronger Lokpal Bill as “premature”, saying the government had already constituted a panel headed by Defence Minister A K Antony to go into the issue.
“The Prime Minister has already constitued a sub-committee headed by Antony….. When the process was already on, then adopting such a path is perhaps not appropriate, probably unnecessary. We respect Hazare very much but the path he has adopted is premature,” party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters.
Noting that the PMO has appropriately articulated its disappointment over Hazare’s course of action, he said in a democracy, the government moves the bill and Parliament enacts it.
–Agencies