Fight against corruption is like a "religious war": Kejriwal

Anna Hazare's close aide Arvind Kejriwal has termed anti corruption movement as a religious war like Mahabharat in which truth always prevails. Criticizing media for showing poor crowd response to the fast, Kejriwal insisted that he has come here for his fast and its no matter whether a single person is present here or not.

Addressing his followers on the fourth day of his fast at Jantar-Mantar, Kejriwal said that it is nothing but a conspiracy from the corruption forces which have been trying to discourage the anti corruption movement. Mob is not a parameter to judge the success of a movement and the fast will continue even not a single person present here, he added.

Commenting on the president Pranab Mukherjee, Kejriwal said that every post has a respect and the post of President was made for Dr. Rajendra Prasad, APJ Kalam who deserves the post. But Pranab Mukherjee has been indulged in various corruption cases and so why should not one ask about this, he said.

Justifying the meaning of democracy, Kejriwal said that everyone has right to ask a question from his government representative, and if we have to ask some question from the government how can one termed us a wrong. He reiterated that parliament is not above the god and everyone has right to ask questions and government is bound to answer them.

He compared his movement to Mahabharat and said that Pandava had nothing for fight but Kaurava had everything. In the same way we have nothing except the public support but government has everything like CBI, IB to suppress us.

He said that there is no hope for public from any political parties as all they have a face of corruption. He attacked on the Congress, BJP, SP, DMK and said that their leaders have been indulged in various corruption scams.