Govt doing difficult job in handing Hazare's stir: Khurshid

New Delhi, Aug 17 (PTI) Union minister Salman Khurshid
today 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."