Congress on Monday dared social activist Anna Hazare from Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat here after the latter relased findings of his team's survey in Union Minister Kapil Sibal's constituency on the Lokpal issue.
Party spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters dismissing the civil society member's initiative and told that he will contest in the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Chandni Chowk and truth will come out then.
He was responding to questions on the claims of the Team Hazare that an overwhelming 85 per cent of people surveyed in the area favoured Jan Lokpal Bill.
Hazare's team carried out a four-day survey on Lokpal Bill there. Mr. Hazare claimed its "interim" results showed 85 per cent of 72,000 responses counted so far were in favour of Jan Lokpal Bill.
Another activist Arvind Kejriwal commented that "seeing these results the question arises does Kapil Sibal still represent the people of his constituency?".
Mr. Tewari however said that however Anna and his team should have "faith in the wisdom and discretion of Parliament" once the government tables the Lokpal Bill in the House. He also added that but they cannot change the basic structure of the Constitution.
Team Hazare is bitterly opposed to the government's decision to keep the Prime Minister, the higher judiciary and MP's conduct inside Parliament and outisde Lokpal's purview.
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