Software icon N.R. Narayana Murthy on Saturday backed social activist Anna Hazare's movement against corruption and favoured the Prime Minister and the judiciary coming under the ambit of the Lokpal bill.
The Chairman and chief mentor of the Infosys also supported the people taking to streets demanding an end to corruption.
“I think in a democracy, pluralism is inevitable. It has to be there. That is what makes democracy stronger,” Mr. Murthy told journalists here. He said, “people have the right to express their opinion as long as they don't hurt anybody and they are law-abiding citizens.”
Asked if he would join Mr. Hazare's movement, Mr. Murthysaid he was always a well-wisher of anything good that was happening in the country.
Asked if the Prime Minister and the judiciary should come under the purview of the Lokpal, Mr. Murthy said one must find a mechanism whereby every citizen of the country was accountable to the legal system.
