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New Delhi: Activist Anna Hazare dismissed RSS’ controversial claim that the saffron outfit had supported the Ramlila agitation for the Jan Lokpal bill.
Debunking the RSS claim, Anna told reporters from his native Ralegaon Siddhi in Maharashtra, "Nobody approached me. Not a single RSS worker met me. How are they saying this? I don't know."
He was reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks at the RSS' annual Dussehra rally in Nagpur on Thursday that its volunteers are already active in all movements against corruption without craving for their own position and credit.
Anna on Friday launched his campaign against Congress in the Hissar Lok Saba by-poll. He urged people not to vote for the party because it has failed to bring the Jan Lokpal bill.
Carrying out his threat issued three days ago, Anna made an appeal to the electorate through a CD that was posted online, saying Congressshouldbedefeated."We have appealed to the people. Congress should be defeated as it has failed to bring the Jan Lokpal bill," he said in the10-minuteCDcalled“The Government of the Corrupt”.
Going by the schedule provided by India against Corruption (IAC), which is spearheading the movement, Anna won’t go to HissartocampaignagainstCongress. However, IAC members Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai and Naveen Jaihind will leaveforHissaronSaturday.
Bhagwat’s claim proof of RSS link to Hazare: Cong
With Anna Hazare upping the ante against Congress with a video message calling for the party’s defeat in Hissar bypolls, Congress retaliated by saying RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment had exposed the anti-graft campaigner’s saffron partnership.
Bhagwat said in his annual Vijayadashmi address on Thursday that RSS workers had participated in the recent movements against corruption, putting Hazare’s claims of being non-partisan under a cloud. TNN
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