By IANS,
Kolkata : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Ananth Kumar Tuesday hailed social activist Anna Hazare for his crusade against corruption and demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh come out with answers in the wake of large-scale scams in his tenure.
Speaking after releasing the party’s manifesto for the April-May West Bengal assembly polls here, he said: “Hazare’s demand is for public good and deserves to be praised.”
“With scams galore, the prime minister must come out with answers,” he added.
Social activist Anna Hazare Tuesday started an indefinite fast in New Delhi to press the demand for an extensive Jan Lokpal Bill to give wider powers to the proposed ombudsman to check corruption.
Reacting to the inclusion of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in the Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to look into the contents of the proposed anti-corruption bill, Ananth Kumar said: “They themselves are neck-deep in corruption. What will they do?”
A nine-member GoM headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was constituted by the prime minister in January to set up an effective anti-corruption mechanism in the wake of a series of scams that had jolted the central government.