Political parties join hands with Team Anna in condemning attack on Bhushan.
Anna Hazare and his team members, Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal, on Wednesday condemned the attack on senior advocate Prashant Bhushan by members of group called ‘Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena’ (BSKS).
Activists and political parties too condemned the attack.
“Youth taking law into its own hands is not right. We have great hopes from youth because we feel they would take the county forward. But this step was not right. I pray to god to give them (youth) wisdom,” said Hazare while advocating temporary protection for Bhushan. But Hazare refused to comment on Bhushan’s Kashmir remark and said he would say anything only after talking to him.
Reacting to the attack, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: “The incident deserves to be condemned in the strongest possible words. The accused should be given harshest possible punishment.”
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, meanwhile, termed the attack shameful. She said the BJP has no relation whatsoever with the organisation that attacked Bhushan.
Alarmed by the attack, senior lawyer and human rights activist Colin Gonsalves proposed filing an PIL against the “top person in organisations that are trying to destabilise the unity and integrity of India” while advocating the arrest of those leaders.
Documentary film maker Sanjay Kak also condemned the incident. “Watching TV what seems even more strange is that one of the attackers, Tejinder Singh Bagga, the president of this ‘Sena’, is a staple figure in Delhi: he was seen disrupting Arundhati Roy’s book release; climbing on the bonnet of the car in which Mirwaiz Umar Farooq... And every time he is escorted off by the Police,” he said.
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