Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has favoured bringing the Prime Minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of Lokpal.
“My view is that the Prime Minister, Judiciary, NGOs and industrial houses should also be brought under the ambit of Lokpal. But there should be a system to ensure that the Lokpal does not misuse its power,” Mr Singh said at his hometown Raghogarh on Saturday.
“When I was the Madhya Pradesh chief minister, I had brought the chief minister’s post under the purview of Lokayukta (Ombudsman),” he said.
However, in an apparent reference to civic rights activists like Anna Hazare, Mr Singh said “exerting of pressure” on the government by a few people was not right in a democratic system.