Anna Hazare and his team today appeared before a Parliamentary committee and demanded that the Lokpal Bill in its present form be withdrawn so that the government can come with a fresh measure.
Hazare told reporters after the meeting that though the decision of the Parliamentary Committee to study the Jan Lokpal bill along with the government legislation was a "good thing", he would continue with his August 16 indefinite fast if the panel did not take a decision by that date.
A member of Hazare's core team Swami Agnivesh created a flutter by saying they were "very very flexible" on issues like bringing Prime Minister or higher judiciary under the ambit of the ombudsman, but stuck to the point of including lower bureaucracy in it.
Senior lawyer Shanti Bhushan, his son Prashant, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi accompanied Hazare to the Committee on Personnel and Law Justice to put forth their views on the government Lokpal Bill.
Prashant Bhushan and Kejriwal said they asked the Committee to recommend to the government to withdraw the Lokpal Bill.
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