Congress takes exception to tone of Hazare’s letters
January 23rd, 2012 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) The Congress Monday took strong exception to the tone and tenor of letters written by Anna Hazare to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and some other political leaders, saying “no self-appointed preachers and guardians of political morals” have a right to lecture the entire political class.
Answering queries about Team Anna writing letters to the prime minister, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said it was for individual leaders to answer the letters.
“But I do want to make a point that no self-appointed preachers and guardians of the political morals have a right to lecture, or preach to the entire political class across the board in letters or otherwise,” he said.
“This preaching tone, this know-it all know tone” and the approach of treating the entire political spectrum as irresponsible “is shocking distrust of the democracy,” he said.
Hazare had Sunday shot off a letter to the prime minister asking him to “show courage” in passing a strong Lokpal bill to give the country something to remember him by.
Using sharp language in the letters to the prime minister and Gandhi, Hazare described Home Minister P. Chidambaram as “corrupt” and wondered why the government wanted to keep Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) “in its grip.”
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