The core committee of Team Anna Hazare begins it two-day meeting at his native village of Ralegan Siddhi on Saturday to devise a strategy for passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament, in the first formal engagement after the anti-graft crusader's fast last month. According to the sources close to Anna Hazare it stated that the 22 member group will, will also discuss the issue of electoral reforms after Hazare's call for voter's right to reject and recall.
However, Swami Agnivesh, a prominent member of the core group, who parted ways after circulation of a CD, which showed him purportedly talking to the Union Minister Kapil Sibal and telling him to act tough with Hazare.
Crying betrayal, Agnivesh had accused certain members of the team Anna Hazare of conspiring against him and said the vicious campaign was aimed at destroying his credibility.
A key member of the group and the former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who had addressed a gathering of students at a Pune college on Friday, confirmed that Swami would not attend the meeting.
She told the reporters that he would speak for himself and when they sought information about Agnivesh whom she had dubbed as a government mole in the anti-corruption movement after the CD leak.
Sources said that they would also discuss the ways to further mobilise public opinion in favour of the Jan Lokpal Bill to make it an instrument for achieving the goal of a corruption-free India.
News Reported by AR for Newsvision
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