Parliament, to some extent, is supreme in a democracy but the government is not - it has to rule according to the will of the people. It is one thing to turn down the demands by a group of people and another to term such demands as undemocratic. Under our constitutional scheme, people have been placed on a higher pedestal than the institutions of democracy. The mode of protest by Anna may be wrong but it is important not to undermine the rights of people who had joined the movement in their own right.