Patna, Jan 31: Rubbishing anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's announcement to form 'Janatantra Morcha' for bringing in change in system as 'a stunt', RJD President Lalu Prasad today said his use of the name of Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan has no basis.
"He (Hazare) had never taken the name of JP so far ...To make himself popular he and his group of civil society members are using the Loknayak's name and assuring to complete his unfulfilled dream," Prasad, himself a close disciple of JP who played a prominent role in the 1974 movement, told PTI.
"Merely by staying at JP Charkha Samiti Bhavan and uttering a few lines about him will not make anybody a great believer of JP ideology," he said criticising Hazare for invoking the name of the socialist leader at his 'Jantrantra Rally' here yesterday.
Prasad alleged that Hazare and his band of activists were behaving like a dictator and ordering politicians,Parliament and even the judiciary.
"During the rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, Hazare and others (civil society members) had appealed to the public to thrash those who consume liquor or gherao the residence of politicians for Jan Lokpal Bill ... Did Gandhiji or JP endorsed violence?"
Prasad said though Hazare spoke of the right to recall elected representatives and the right to reject at his Janatantra Rally yesterday, he was silent on right to property through which the poor could get a slice of nation's wealth,which is otherwise being monopolised by a handful of influential people.
He also took a potshot at his bete noir Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for endorsing Hazare's rally saying "He (Kumar) thought by doing so Hazare will speak a few kind words for him, which ultimately did not happen."
The RJD chief criticised retired army chief V K Singh and other activists of civil society who were present at Hazare's rally at historic Gandhi Maidan yesterday. "It seems they are desperate for power to nourish their political ambition."
