Civil society leaders behaving like legislators: Pranab

Kolkata, Aug 21 (PTI) Indian Union Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that the leaders of the civil
society movement for a Lokpal Bill have given an impression as
if they have become legislators.
"The way the civil society movement is continuing in the
country, it gives an impression that the leaders have become
legislators," Mukherjee said.
Speaking at the convocation of the Bengal Engineering and
Science University in Shibpur in Howrah district, Mukherjee
said he had been asked during a programme in Hanoi why the
Indian government was giving so much importance to the civil
society movement in the country.
"I told them that Indian democracy is not stagnant. It is
a multi-faceted democracy. We have to consider opinions of
different people and organisations. It is a new kind of
process. We have to listen to them," Mukherjee said.
There are thousands of opinions on any important issue
which have to be heard, the Finance Minister said.