Cong split on right to recall,reject

It is not practical in India,where 50 per cent of the people do not vote. Candidates win elections by getting only 3 crore votes out of 13-14 crore voters. So I do not think it right to recall is possible, Alvi told reporters outside Parliament House.

As for the right to reject candidates,Alvi said,First we should try to ensure that 80-90 per cent voters go to vote. Otherwise right to reject is also not feasible.

At a press briefing later,Singhvi said,These are certainly issues which are novel and which can be discussed,but they are complex and complicated issues. They are concepts which have to be very carefully scrutinised,and only if there is a long and large process of discussion and agreement between all stakeholders in and out of Parliament,such things can and should proceed further.

Meanwhile,in a letter to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi,a young party MP,Praveen Singh Aron,has said the governments handling of Team Annas protest was inappropriate and sought a thorough inquiry within the party to ascertain whether it was done deliberately or was a mistake.

Aron said that in the absence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi,the persons responsible8230; could not see the widespread public support and socio-political aspects of Hazares movement.

He said the mishandling could have been a deliberate attempt to prevent Rahul from becoming the Prime Minister or to damage our visionary and unquestionably honest Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. with PTI inputs