Current Affairs

News
Govt reaches out as Team Anna steps up campaign

NEW DELHI: The Anna Hazare camp on Sunday stepped up its campaign by demonstrating at the PMs residence and the Gandhian leader delivering a Lokpal bill lao ya jao (bring Lokpal bill or go) call. The campaigns escalation came on a day that saw crowd support for the protests swelling dramatically, with large turnouts at India Gate and Ramlila Maidan. Efforts to resolve the standoff also got underway, with intermediaries meeting telecom minister Kapil Sibal late on Sunday evening. Veteran Maharashtra bureaucrat U C Sarangi and longtime Hazare associate Bhayyuji Maharaj met the fasting leader for around 20 minutes earlier in the day. They were later closeted with Sibal. Sarangi and Maharaj had taken a summary of the governments Lokpal bill to Hazare, but the activists dismissed it, saying it did not amount to any new proposals. After the meeting with Sibal, campaign leaders said discussions were of a general nature and no proposal was conveyed to the government. Bhayyuji Maharaj said the talks were positive and both sides were flexible.

                                                                                                               
Back
Created by SaasVaap Techies pvt ltd