AMRITSAR: Alleging that "those in power" had tried to divert attention from "real isssue" by claiming that RSS was behind the movements by Anna Hazare and Ramdev, the saffron outfit today said its workers had supported the activists "just as other ordinary people of the country".
"The impromptu support that common people have offered to social reformers like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev is the direct result of their frustration," RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav said here.
Delivering a lecture, he said, "The people in power have behaved in a predictable fashion. In an attempt to pass the buck and divert the attention of people from real issue, they started to blame RSS for these movements.
"RSS workers supported Anna and Baba Ramdev just as other ordinary people of the country," said, adding that the workers will also support L K Advani during his upcoming Rathyatra.
He said that political corruption needed to be investigated at all levels beginning from the top and thus a strong Lokpal was the need of the hour.
Batting for inclusion of Prime Minister in the ambit of Lokpal, Madhav said as a member of the cabinet the prime minister was just first among equals and "thus like any other minister the office of PM naturally fell within framework of Lokpal".
On electoral reforms, he said the two key issues of provision of right to recall the elected representative and government funding of the elections needed to be debated and could go a long way in checking corruption during and after elections.
He also said that unlike in western democracies where elected representatives "were all powerful in the House and on par with common man outside it, in India members of parliament or state assemblies enjoyed little political freedom and were bound party whips.
"This whip system in parliamentary democracy also needs to be debated," he said, adding political reforms are needed to address atmosphere of gloom in the country.
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