New Delhi: Union minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday contended that the government was doing a difficult job in handling the situation arising out of the agitation led by Anna Hazare and defended the administration's role in dealing with the protest.
"Administration has to negotiate what are the limits of your dissent and protest, how much is the carrying capacity of a place where you want to do it and what is the apprehension," the Law and Justice minister told Karan Thapar in an interview.
"We had a difficult job to do, and nobody else could have done it for us and we have done a difficult job to the best of our ability. How it plays itself out is what's important," he said.
On whether the government was going in circles on the issue, Khurshid said, "This is something that happens all the time. I have myself as a political leader in UP have been through this, perhaps not in the same iconic coverage that Anna Hazare's got, but it happens all the time."
Asked if the government has bungled the issue, Khurshid said, "It's an impression some people have. I am not sure that everyone has this impression."
"I wouldn't be bogged down with impressions of today, let's see what happens as we move on," he said. Asked if this issue was the worst low the Government had seen, he said, "That is what you have said."
Justifying Anna's arrest by the Delhi Police, Khurshid said, "We didn't arrest him without reason because if we had arrested him without reason, they would have rushed to the Supreme Court or the High Court and got themselves released."
He added that the civil society members did not go to court on Anna's arrest as "the court would have imposed conditions and those conditions would have come from court not from us and this is all part of the process of law."
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