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Anna Hazare tonight hit back at Congress leader Digvijaya Singh saying the
charge of RSS support to his anti-corruption campaign was an attempt to defame
him and ruled out joining politics or becoming a Presidential candidate.
"You have tried to link me with RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and BJP (
Bharatiya Janata Party). By showing the dispute between them (Congress and
BJP), they are trying to mislead the people of this country," Hazare said in
his letter to Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.
"There is no difference between BJP and Congress as both the parties are
misleading the people. You think that by my anti-Congress campaign, the BJP
will be benefited, but why is the Congress giving them (BJP) a chance," he
asked.
The letter came in response to Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh's
letter Tuesday accusing Hazare of links with the RSS.
"I know very well that people throw stones only at those trees which bear
fruits. People see the world in the colour of the glasses they wear. I think
that the colour of your spectacle is wrong and you should change it," he said
in his eight-page letter.
The 74-year-old Gandhian has sought to puncture the points raised by Singh in
his two letters in which the Congress general secretary had claimed RSS was
backing Hazare's Lokpal campaign and that he was surrounded by associates who
are anti-Congress.
Hazare told Singh that if the government brings Jan Lokpal bill in the winter
session of Parliament and strives to bring the Lokayukta Act in each state,
then there was no need to agitate or to tell people not vote for Congress.
Referring to Singh's allegation that BJP was planning to make him a candidate
in the Presidential elections next year, Hazare said "I neither have the
capacity nor the desire to become the President of India and wonder why
Congress and BJP were talking in the air".
