Will you tie up with Cong or BJP: Team Anna asks SP

Incidentally,Team Anna also raises questions about parties fielding 'tainted' candidates.

Two days after releasing election pamphlets with separate questions for all major political parties,Team Anna today sent letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi,BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Samajwadi Party and BSP chiefs Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati,reiterating and elaborating its same Lokpal points.

While all the letters concentrated on what the team likes to term “the Centre’s Lokpal fraud”,it was the letter to Mulayam that was the most interesting,asking the party to clarify on the speculation about his party tying up with the Congress or even the BJP post-elections.

“Akhileshji (Yadav) has started making caustic remarks on the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi. If you are planning to form a government with the Congress party,then are these statements mere superficial ones to mislead voters?” the letter signed by Anna Hazare,Arvind Kejriwal,Kiran Bedi,Shanti Bhushan and Prasant Bhushan asks.

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Incidentally,while Team Anna also raises questions about parties fielding “tainted” candidates,it doesn’t ask Gadkari what his party’s compulsion was on this,a question he poses to the SP and BSP.

While the rest of the letters bear signatures of Hazare,Kejriwal,Bedi and the Bhushans,the letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was signed only by Hazare.

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