Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal has courted a fresh controversy by saying that “rapists, murderers and looters” were sitting in Parliament, prompting a backlash from political parties across the board, which described the comments as disgusting and an insult to democracy. The RJD has even said it would bring a privilege motion against him in the budget session. Kejriwal, however, stood his ground. “In this Parliament, 163 members have cases of heinous offences against them,” he said on Sunday. Naming 2G scam accused Kanimozhi and A Raja, besides Suresh Kalmadi, Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav, as being embroiled in corruption cases, Kejriwal said a Parliament with such members would not bring a strong Lokpal. He did not spare Union home minister P Chidambaram either, saying if CBI were independent, Chidambaram too would face a court case for corruption. While addressing an election rally in UP’s Ghaziabad on Saturday, Kejriwal had said: “In this Parliament, rapists are sitting, murderers and looters are sitting. How can you expect Jan Lokpal Bill to be passed by the Parliament? How can you expect that you can get reprieve from poverty and corruption.
