Referring to Hazare's movement, Mukherjee said when it was at its height more than two years ago Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked him to head Group of Minister to have negotiations with the anti-corruption campaigner. He said he was even asked during a trip in Vietnam as to how he would respond to that movement.
Maintaining that he was responding as a student of politics, he said “it is opening new dimensions of our democratic structure which we shall have to address and what is that new dimension.”
Earlier, he said, it was thought that democracy meant people would choose their elected representatives who will make legislations for them and administer for them. At the end of that stipulated period “we shall have an account from them how have we been successful or not”.
Hazare movement has opened new dimensions of democracy: President
New Delhi: A day after Parliament approved the landmark Lokpal bill, President Pranab Mukherjee today said movements like that of Anna Hazare have opened new dimensions of democratic structure suggesting that they cannot be brushed
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