Cong must take a lesson: Hazare
Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on Monday warned the Congress that if the party failed to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament, it would be “he himself” campaigning against the party in the upcoming Assembly elections and not just the Team Anna members as had been the case in the Hisar Lok Sabha byelection.
“If the Congress still has not learnt a lesson from these polls then the condition would worsen further. Hence, the Congress should take a cue and pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session. Hisar saw Team Anna’s workers campaigning for the anti-corruption cause but next for the Assembly elections it will be ‘me’, Anna Hazare, who will personally rally for the cause,” wrote Mr Hazare in the blog.
Mr Hazare writing in his blog asked the Congress to stop blaming Team Anna and instead take strong steps in creating stricter laws against corruption. “The denial for Congress (loss in Hisar) arises out of people’s enduring capacity which has crossed its limit,” Mr Hazare wrote on the blog.
Team Anna members also called upon the Congress to ensure the Jan Lokpal Bill is passed by Parliament in the Winter Session following the positive “referendum” in the Hisar Lok Sabha byelection.
On the day when the Hisar byelection result came in, two key members of Team Anna — Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodiya — began their campaign in Banda in UP to put pressure on the Congreses to pass their version of the Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session.
Mr Kejriwal said, after the Hisar byelection result, that “it was a referendum on Jan Lokpal Bill”. “Congress should take a lesson,” he added.
Mr Kejriwal and Mr Sisodiya had camped in Hisar for a few days, while Mr Hazare had sent his message to voters through a video clip.
Another key Team Anna member Kiran Bedi too had visited Hisar before the voting.
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