No differences over names of committee members: Hazare
April 10th, 2011 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Anna Hazare Sunday denied any differences among the activists on who would be made member of the joint committee for drafting the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill.
“People have been saying there are differences among members of the committee, I want to say it was a small difference and it has been sorted. I talked to (yoga guru Baba) Ramdev, he raised that Kiran Bedi is not in the committee. Kiran Bedi had refused to be in the committee long back,” Hazare said at a press meet here, a day after breaking his five-day long fast for drafting a strong Lokpal Bill.
Ramdev had Saturday alleged nepotism in forming the panel, which has father-son Shanti Bhushan, a former law minister, and Prashant Bhushan, also a senior lawyer.
“We needed those people in the committee who were involved in the drafting of the Jan Lokpal Bill, we have to defend the clauses of the bill in front of the committee. So we have kept those who have knowledge of law and were involved in drafting of the bill,” Arvind Kejriwal, who is a member of the committee and was involved in drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill said at the Press Club.
Apart from the father-son duo, the committee has Anna Hazare, retired Supreme Court judge N. Santosh Hegde and activist Kejriwal representing the civil society.
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