Team Anna frontliner Kiran Bedi on Thursday declared that Anna Hazare would not campaign in the poll-bound states due to his poor health. She said that the core committee would meet in Delhi on Saturday to decide on the future course of action for the Jan Lokpal movement.
Ms Bedi met the 74-year-old self-styled Gandhian at a Pune hospital on Thursday. “Anna is not going to travel and he will not campaign in the states. His health is really important to us and doctors have advised him not to travel at the moment,” she said. The anti-corruption crusader had earlier said that he would campaign in the five poll-bound states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.
Ms Bedi said that they would chalk out the next plan of action in the upcoming meeting. “I have a message from Anna. He has shared his thoughts and ideas with me. I will put them across to the core committee in the next meeting,” she said.
Elaborating on Mr Hazare’s health, Ms Bedi said, “He is on antibiotics and needs total care at the moment to prevent any relapse.”
Meanwhile, on the sixth day of Mr Hazare’s admission to Sancheti Hospital, doctors treating him that his condition is “medically absolutely fine”.
“His blood pressure and pulse were normal and he seemed charming on Thursday. He will be given antibiotics till Saturday and we might discharge him on Sunday,” said Dr Mahendra Kawedia.
Meanwhile, MPCC general secretary Sanjay Dutt in a statement sought to know Team Anna’s stand on the BJP’s decision of inducting Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former BSP minister accused in UP’s `2,000-crore National Rural Health Mission scam, into the BJP. “Team Anna’s silence on the issue and conscious ignoring of this shocking development when they do not forget to react on trivial matters pertaining to the Congress give credence to the sentiment that their stance is more anti-Congress than anti-corruption. Such convenient, selective posturing by Team Anna re-affirms the belief that their campaign is totally politicised.”