Monday, December 12, 2011

Anna Hazare holds fast; parties gathered only non-upa

Leaders of non-UPA parties on Sunday shared the dais with Anna Hazare during his one-day fast here backing him on a strong Lokpal but made it clear to him that it will be Parliament that will take the final call and civil society cannot expect all its demands to be accepted.

Congress and other UPA constituents kept away but prominent leaders, including those from the Left and the Right, came together on a visibly anti-Congress platform at Hazare's symbolic fast at Jantar Mantar, in protest against the Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Lokpal Bill.