<p>"I don't personally think, the people on street could, in a very good way, deal with the corruption issue," Sen said while welcoming the fact that the issue had come into prominence.<br /><br />"We need to do whatever anti-corruption thing we have to do. It has to have a parliamentary feature, reality feature, rather than going outside politics and reality of action in India," the Nobel laureate said while delivering a keynote address at the launch of UN ESCAP's sub-regional office for South and Southwest Asia here.<br /><br />The comments by Sen, who spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier today, came in the backdrop of preparations by Team Anna for a fast later this month on Lokpal issue in case a strong anti-corruption legislation is not enacted in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.<br /><br />"...I am not a believer that it could be done in the way exemplary punishment is meted out by Panchayats to deal with the guy who drinks. I think we have to be careful about this," Sen said.<br /><br />"I welcome the fact that corruption has become a bigger issue.... it is important that corruption is in someway (being) highlighted and it seems that the people hate (the corrupt)," he said.<br /><br />Sen said, "I had the privilege this morning of talking for about an hour with my old friend Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister."</p>
<p>"I don't personally think, the people on street could, in a very good way, deal with the corruption issue," Sen said while welcoming the fact that the issue had come into prominence.<br /><br />"We need to do whatever anti-corruption thing we have to do. It has to have a parliamentary feature, reality feature, rather than going outside politics and reality of action in India," the Nobel laureate said while delivering a keynote address at the launch of UN ESCAP's sub-regional office for South and Southwest Asia here.<br /><br />The comments by Sen, who spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier today, came in the backdrop of preparations by Team Anna for a fast later this month on Lokpal issue in case a strong anti-corruption legislation is not enacted in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.<br /><br />"...I am not a believer that it could be done in the way exemplary punishment is meted out by Panchayats to deal with the guy who drinks. I think we have to be careful about this," Sen said.<br /><br />"I welcome the fact that corruption has become a bigger issue.... it is important that corruption is in someway (being) highlighted and it seems that the people hate (the corrupt)," he said.<br /><br />Sen said, "I had the privilege this morning of talking for about an hour with my old friend Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister."</p>