Hazare's protest: Cong takes dig at AAP

The Congress today launched a veiled attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over social activist Anna Hazare's reported move to make participants of his ongoing protest here sign an affidavit that they would not join politics.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his colleagues in the party were part of Hazare's campaign in 2011 for a Lokpal. Kejriwal went on to form the AAP in 2012 and the party is currently heading the government in the national capital. Hazare has been critical of Kejriwal's decision to take a plunge into politics.

Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan also alleged that the BJP-led central government is afraid of implementing the Lokpal fearing enquiries.

Hazare launched his latest indefinite hunger strike seeking appointment of Lokpal yesterday.

This time Anna Hazare is making people sign an affidavit that you will not join politics. Had he got such an affidavit earlier, we need not see such a day, Vadakkan told reporters, without naming the AAP, which has often been under attack from the Congress as well as the BJP.

He condemned the alleged manhandling of a woman photojournalist by Delhi Police yesterday while she was covering a protest by JNU students here.

Journalists, photojournalists in particular, have photographic evidence. They have to be destroyed and the alibi given by the Delhi Police is that they thought they were protestors that is yet another lie, the Congress leader added.