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Anna vows to take on Cong if word on Lokpal not kept New Delhi, November 4 Anna complemented the threat with an advice to both the Centre and states - follow Uttarakhand’s Lokpal Bill model which has the “potential to end corruption and solve the problems of the poor”. He said he would felicitate Chief Minister of Uttarakhand BC Khanduri for a job well done. Asked why he was backing a BJP CM, the activist replied with a straight face, “I don’t see Khanduri as a political person. He has shown how a CM should act on this issue.” But for the Congress, Anna’s utterances were full of barbs. Flanked by his core team members Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan, all of who have recently been in controversy over one issue or the other, Anna said he would no longer hesitate to openly campaign against the Congress in election-bound states if it delayed the anti-graft law further.So far, Anna had been claiming he would not name any party in his campaignsm, which, he said, were “apolitical”. But the Hisar experiment seems to have changed his mind. “Hisar is an example of what can happen if we campaign against the Congress. The government is playing with us. Its intentions on the law are not clear. If the Jan Lokpal Bill doesn’t come this session, I will personally campaign against the Congress in poll-bound states and ask people not to vote for it,” said the activist. The activist has his campaign circuit worked out even before the winter session (November 22 to December 21) has commenced. In case the Bill fails, he will fast for three days in the Capital followed by a one-day dharna, then tour election states - UP, Punjab, Uttrakhand, and Gujarat - to campaign against the UPA. Here to meet the Parliamentary Standing Committee, which is in the process of finalising the Lokpal law (Team Anna members met the panel yesterday and demanded over 30 amendments), Anna seemed dissatisfied with the current shape of the law and said the government was breaking it into pieces and weaken it. He insisted that the citizens’ charter and the state Lokayuktas be made part of the Central Bill. Don’t blackmail, says Congress
New Delhi: The government could not be blackmailed at every stage, the Congress said on Friday after Anna Hazare threatened to campaign against the UPA in the five election-bound states. — IANS
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