JAIPUR: Social organisations in the city during a joint press conference on Wednesday announced that they were ready to march towards Delhi to support Anna Hazare.
Drawing similarities between the Emergency days and the protest today, the activists said the government "experimented with Emergency in 1975" but now it dare not repeat the same.
Rajasthan Samaj Sewa Sangh ex-president Sawai Singh said, "This time, the youths are participating in the protest against corruption in large numbers and they will certainly bring change."
They lashed out at the government for creating hurdles in Anna Hazare's protest. "Now, the government has started banning public protests. We condemn government's action of suppressing Hazare by arresting him," PUCL president Prem Krishna Sharma said.
The activists claimed that the Lokpal Bill which was presented in the Parliament was a mere "pile of papers". Jamat-e-Islami-Hind's state unit ex-president Salim Engineer said: "The government's Lokpal Bill is toothless. There should be a stronger Lokpal Bill to stop corruption. Public representatives are not rulers. They should behave like public representatives as they are accountable to common man who elected them."
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