Hazare-Nitish meeting, Nitish didn’t gave commitment
NEW DELHI: On Thursday Activist Anna Hazare met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Delhi ahead of the July 3 all-party meeting on the Lokpal Bill.
Anna Hazare is reaching out to all political parties to garner support before the all-party meeting on Lokpal.
He met the CPM’a Prakash Karat and RLD’s Ajit Singh on Wednesday. He is slotted to meet BJP’s Arun Jaitley on Friday.
“Nitish Kumar has already implemented some of the clauses we want included in the Lokpal Bill,” said Anna Hazare.
Nitish Kumar remained non-committal on supporting issue of Anna Hazare, saying he would first go through the draft and discuss it with his party before disclosing his stand. But said he will attend the all-party meeting on 3rd July .
“I will tell the stand taken by us after studying the draft and discussing with party members and allies. The government has called for an all party meeting, before that there will be a discussion within our party,” said Nitish Kumar.
Today Hazare will also be meeting CPI’s AB Bardhan. Hazare’s meeting with Sonia Gandhi has been pushed to Saturday. The Congress President, sources say, has prior commitments.
Sonia will be meeting Hazare just days after the Prime Minister said he was keen to keep the dialogue with civil society groups open.
