Hazare declines BJP's appeal to join in agitation against AAP govt

Mumbai/New Delhi: Activist Anna Hazare on Friday said it was "unfortunate" that the Delhi BJP should ask him to join in its agitation against the AAP government when it has a huge cadre of its own and wields power in the Centre. His going to Delhi would not make any difference as he did not believe any party can give the country bright future, he said in a letter.

Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta had on Monday written to Hazare, urging him to join his party's "mass movement" against the Arvind Kejriwal government which Gupta claimed was "a new name of social, political and economic corruption". Kejriwal was Hazare's key ally in his 2011 anti- corruption agitation inDelhi. "I felt disappointed reading your letter written to the press. Your party, BJP, has been ruling the country for the past more than six years," Hazare said. "What could be more unfortunate than leaders of a party, which has youth cadres in big number and claims to have highest number of members in the world, urging an 83-year-old fakir (monk) like Anna

Hazare who resides in a temple's 10X12 feet room and has no asset and power, to join in its protest," he wrote.