Bangalore: Former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde,
who was closely associated with now disbanded Team Anna, feels yoga guru
Baba Ramdev’s agitation on black money and graft issues may re-energise
the anti-corruption movement. He also believed it could cause electoral
damage to the Congress.
“There seems to be a lot of ground support for Ramdev, which would have jolted the ruling party (Congress) as he specifically identified the ruling party as a cause for all the lack of action on corruption and black money issue, ” the former Supreme Court Judge told PTI.
He also saw “political balancing” at play vis-a-vis support to the movement by NDA constituents and unattached parties.
Noting the
support of Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP), Mayawati (BSP) and Nitish Kumar
(JD-U) to the movement, he said, “It looks as if Ramdev has a lot of
support in that area…Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana. It was a massive
crowd.”
Mr Hegde, a key member of Team Anna which was recently disbanded by Anna Hazare, also slammed the Congress on the black money issue.”If the government should go to the extent of keeping the names and account holders’ identity (vis-a-vis black-money slashed abroad) a secret, it must be having some very strong reason for that,” he said.
“There seems to be a lot of ground support for Ramdev, which would have jolted the ruling party (Congress) as he specifically identified the ruling party as a cause for all the lack of action on corruption and black money issue, ” the former Supreme Court Judge told PTI.
He also saw “political balancing” at play vis-a-vis support to the movement by NDA constituents and unattached parties.
“The
fact that our political leaders who are otherwise averse to
anti-corruption movement came together, indicates there is some
political balancing. Otherwise, they would not have come to the podium
and shared the dais with Baba Ramdev,” Mr Hegde said.
Mr Hegde, a key member of Team Anna which was recently disbanded by Anna Hazare, also slammed the Congress on the black money issue.”If the government should go to the extent of keeping the names and account holders’ identity (vis-a-vis black-money slashed abroad) a secret, it must be having some very strong reason for that,” he said.