Mumbai: Opposing Anna Hazare's version of Lokpal bill, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Tuesday said the social activist and his team were intolerant about the views of those not supporting their cause.
Any line of thinking which presumes that it is the only right way, has a stench of fascism, he observed.
"It is presumptuous of Team Anna to believe that they are the world. It is megalomania and delusional," he said. "I think Anna's movement has served its purpose. We thank him," he told.
"When I have dissenting views, why do they come and browbeat me? Hazare's people wanted me to backtrack when I was supporting Aruna Roy's draft. What right you have to say that your movement is Gandhian and peaceful," he said.
"If Hazare believes in spirit of democracy, then he should understand the fundamentals on which a democracy breathes and lives by. Any person who says my view is the only view, and I am the only measure through which right or wrong can be judged, is not representing the democratic view," he said.
"When Mahatma Gandhi was shot by Godse, he said "Hey Ram". When someone attacked Sharad Pawar, he (Hazare) said, "only one slap?" Bhatt said.
Namdeo Dhasal, founder-president of Dalit Panther, opposed Hazare's agitation and demanded that the central government should take action against Hazare who has been "promoting disharmony in the nation".
"Anna and his movement for a strong Jan Lokpal Bill have threatened the very basics of the Indian Constitution and the central government should take immediate action against him," said Dhasal, who held a day-long 'Save the constitution movement' at Chaityabhoomi.
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