PM an insensitive person: Team Hazare

New Delhi, Aug 15 (PTI) As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh questioned the proposed fast by Anna Hazare on Lokpal
(central anti-corruption ombudsman) issue, the Gandhian's team
Monday called him an "insensitive" person who is asking people
to fall in line on the issue.
Kiran Bedi, a Hazare Team member, claimed people have no
trust left in the UPA government which was elected two years
back as it had squandered an opportunity to make history by
enacting a strong anti-corruption ombdusman.
The Hazare team's reaction came as Singh used his
Independence Day address to assert that those who are opposed
to the bill should not resort to hunger strikes and
fasts-unto-death.
"He speaks like a final arbiter. He says you cannot
protest. This is a direct imposition of a bill on people
against their will. The Prime Minister is imposing a bill on
the country and saying protest fast is wrong. The PM is asking
people to fall in line," Bedi told PTI.
"He is insensitive to people's perception. Surveys after
surveys and referendums after referendums showed that people
rejected the government's Lokpal Bill. He is not taking this
into account," she alleged.
Bedi was of the opinion that the Prime Minister was not
not addressing the reasons for the proposed fast by Hazare.
"The fast is against imposition of a 'dhokha' (betrayal) bill
which excludes more than what it includes. Fasting is the only
way and we are now being asked to fall in line," she said.
Noting that the Prime Minister did not elaborate in his
speech about what kind of Lokpal he envisioned, she said Singh
should have told the nation that an overwhelming majority has
rejected the government version of the bill and that he would
be withdrawing the measure.