Not associated with BJP or RSS, says Anna
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, asked whether he feared he would be targeted as a BJP supporter, said those who raise such allegations should be sent to a mental hospital. “In my whole life, not a single instance has shown that I had been associated with the BJP or RSS. I have never attended a single meeting (of the BJP or RSS),” he claimed.
He said he has got letters from BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and others supporting the Jan Lokpal Bill but not any from the Congress. He said he would wait two more days for a letter from the Congress and then would start his campaign against them if the party failed to do so.
Mr Hazare made the Congress his main target even before waiting for the fate of the Lokpal Bill, which is before a parliamentary standing committee. “If the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed in the Winter Session, then I will name the Congress and ask people not to vote for it in the Assembly polls scheduled in five states next year,” he told reporters. He announced that he would begin his tour of the election-bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur between October 13 and 15 and made it clear that he would intensify his agitation across India in the coming months.
He said he will undertake a fast in Lucknow three days before the election commences in UP if the Centre does not pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session. Replying to a question, he said Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s decision to jail IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was wrong. “Bhatt has submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court. Then what is the need for arresting him?” Mr Hazare said.
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