Social crusader Anna Hazare Tuesday in a television interview said that he would not protect his estranged aid India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal on the alleged graft charges labeled by Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh.
"I won't protect Kejriwal on allegations made by Digvijay. I will support him if he fights election against a corrupt person," said Anna in an interview to a famous English news channel Headlines Today at his village Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra.
Anna's comment came after Digvijay Singh's 19th October letter in which the later has asked 27 questions to the first including the flow of foreign funds of Kejriwal's NGO and alleged violation of service rules while he was an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer.
A day after Digvijay called Kejriwal a "self-serving ambitious megalomaniac with scant regard for democracy" and asked the activist why he "never raised" the issue of corruption in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Explaining his position on why he parted ways with Kejriwal, Hazare said, "Kejriwal did not reply my five questions including on funding of the new political outfit and identifying the candidates."
Kejriwal was told not to use my name in the yet to be named political outfit, he said.
Wishing him well, Hazare said, "I have no advise for him."
Hazare said he was in the process of re-launching his campaign for the anti-graft institution - Lokpal and was screening the potential members.
"We are working for the Lokpal and pro-people laws and are in the process to finalise the members after verifying their credentials," he said.
Hazare also said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a good man but "is remote controlled."
--With IANS Inputs--
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