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Topic: No breakthrough in talks, back to square one: Team Anna
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From: "Deepak Ganju" <dganju@earthlink.net>
Date: Aug 24 03:01PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/1ed23170367f6a3b
No breakthrough in talks, back to square one:
Team Anna
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, August 24, 2011
The stand-off between government and Anna Hazare reached a flashpoint
on Wednesday with the talks yielding no breakthrough and the
Gandhian's team expressed "disappointment" with the government's
"change in attitude".
"There is a difference of day and night between yesterday and today.
There has been a change of attitude. The kind of concern they were
expressing yesterday was not visible today. It is a totally
retrograde," Team Anna member Kiran Bedi told reporters after a
meeting with government negotiators.
Accusing the government of involving them only "for the sake of
meetings", Bedi said they have gone back to the drafting stage.
"We are back to the position where we were two days ago when no
meetings had taken place. The agreement on procedure which appeared
reached yesterday has been withdrawn by them," Arvind Kejriwal,
another Team Anna member, said.
Expressing disappointment with the meeting, lawyer Prashant Bhushan
said that the discussions will have to be started "once again
virtually from scratch".
"Unfortunately, we are back to square one. While yesterday there seem
to be some progress, today after the meetings of CCPA, Congress Core
Group and all party meeting, we seem to be back to square one," he
said.
The meeting tonight was the fourth Team Anna members had with
government negotiators after the informal deliberation between them
and law minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday.
As the meeting drew close and it was clear that there was no immediate
agreement, Kejriwal claimed that they asked ministers Pranab Mukherjee
and Salman Khurshid whether the government was contemplating any
police action against Hazare.
"We also asked him whether they are going to take any police action
against them. They got infuriated and told us not to raise such
issues. Then they said they were not competent to answer this
question," he said.
Kejriwal said they also sought an answer from the ministers on what
should they tell Hazare as he has maintained that he will not end his
fast till his demands were met.
"When we asked what we should tell Anna Hazare as he will not end his
fast, they said 'let him do whatever he does. If Anna wants to
continue with his fast, it is his wish'," he said.
He said the government clearly told them that Jan Lokpal Bill cannot
be introduced in Parliament and a new bill has to be drafted and
accused the government of having pulled back from the consensus
arrived at yesterday's meeting.
Bhushan said that they had last night raised two demands -- on
procedure and timeline and the nature of the bill which has to be
placed in Parliament.
"We told them that the bill should incorporate provisions of Jan
Lokpal Bill and should be passed in this session. Yesterday it
appeared that the government or rather the ministers who were talking
to us said that this would sympathetically considered.
"But today we have been told that the Parliamentary procedures like
Standing Committee etc could not be short-circuited. Some timeline can
still be adhered to," he said.
He said the government appeared willing to consider the issue of timeline.
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