“People on the street” cannot deal with corruption in a proper manner, said Nobel laureate Amartya Sen today, favouring a solution in Parliament to take on the menace. In a veiled attack on Anna Hazare-led civil society over the Lok Pal issue, the economist said: “I don’t personally think the people on street could, in a very good way, deal with the corruption issue.”
Sen welcomed the fact that the issue had come into prominence. “We need to do whatever anti-corruption thing we have to do. It has to have a Parliamentary feature, reality feature, rather than going outside politics and reality of action in India,” the Nobel laureate said while delivering a keynote address at the launch of UN ESCAP’s sub-regional office for South and Southwest Asia here.
The comments by Sen, who spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier today, came in the backdrop of preparations by Team Anna for a fast later this month.
