New Delhi, Oct 15: Swami Agnivesh, who was earlier associated with activist Anna Hazare, today demanded an apology from Team Anna members for trying to project the Gandhian as a “cult figure” and asked them to refrain from slogans like ‘Anna is India and India is Anna’.
“There should not be any attempt to create a cult figure and the people associated with Anna’s movement must apologise for this. Cult leads to a kind of dictatorship. It is elitist in origin and the slogan ‘Anna is India and India is Anna’ should not be used,” Agnivesh said here.
Participating in an open discussion on the Lokpal Bill organised by All India Confederation of SC/ST organisations, Agnivesh said there is no place for individual worship in the country.
“There is no place for individual worship in this country. We will never accept it whenever a person is represented as god or the country,” he said.
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