Anna cancels House visit,returns home

After skipping his Hyderabad trip,Anna Hazare has also cancelled his visit to Delhi to witness the debate on the Lokpal Bill in Parliament this week. He returned to his village,Ralegan Siddhi,from Chennai on Monday and is likely to go to Delhi only on December 26 now.

Hazare had earlier cancelled his Hyderabad visit where he was scheduled to address a rally on Monday,saying that he had to go to Delhi to witness the Lokpal debate in Parliament. He is expected to go to Delhi only on December 26 for the protest planned on December 27 at Ramlila Maidan. When he left for Delhi from Ralegan Siddhi on December 9 he was supposed to be back on December 20, said Dada Pathare,Hazares close aide.

While speaking to the media at the Pune airport,where he arrived at about 2 pm,Hazare said,I will wait and watch how the Cabinet and Parliament deal with the Bill. If the government passes a strong Lokpal Bill in Parliament only then will I be able to stop the December 27 agitation.

Terming the governments draft Bill as useless,he reiterated his threat of launching an agitation from December 27.