Rift in Team Anna: Hegde says Not a Party to Target PM


Rift in Team Anna: Hegde says Not a Party to Target PM

New Delhi, May 29 (PTI):
Fresh differences appeared in Team Anna with Justice Santosh Hegde today distancing himself from corruption allegations against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other ministers even as the group sought to play down Anna Hazare's reservations on the issue.

Hegde said in Bangalore that he was not party to the decision to target Singh, Pranab Mukhrjee, S M Krishna and other ministers.

Hazare himself appeared to distance himself from the move to target Singh and described the Prime Minister as an "honest man" soon after his team put Singh's name on a list of 14 "corrupt" ministers last Saturday. He had said that he will seek clarification from the team.

"I am not party to the decision-making process. If I don't agree to a decision and if I don't express my view, then I am left presumed to be party to the decision," he said adding he does not know the content of the charges levelled against ministers.

"If the contents are known to me and if the content indicates the involvement of the particular ministers and acceptable to me, then I will go with them. But since I do not know, I am not compelled to put my tongue and chin into it.

"...I do not have the material that they had sent to the Prime Minister seeking investigations. I said I do not have to do anything with those allegations," he said.

However, he added that he was not walking out of Team Anna. "If they want me to go out of Anna's team, then it is another matter," Hegde, who had earlier opposed Team Anna's anti-Congress campaign during Hisar bypolls, said.

Meanwhile, to questions on Hazare's views on Singh, Bhushan said most of the documents are in English and Hazare cannot read the language.

"So these large number of documents have to be translated into Hindi to enable him to go through it. It is not possible to translate all these documents that fast so that he can read it. He knew the larger points like which minister has what charges against him and all.

"But on the Prime Minister, he did not know the whole matter. But he has full faith in us that we are doing the right thing, that the panel has vetted it," Bhushan told reporters here.

With Team Anna appearing to be in disarray, Law Minister Salman Khurshid took potshots at them saying there was a need to save Hazare from his group of anti-graft activists.

"There is a need to save Anna Hazare from these people as much as there is a need to save the country from corruption," Khurshid told reporters when asked to comment on fresh allegations of corruption made by Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal against a minister.

Kejriwal said Hazare knows about all the issues and if he wants to see the documents regarding the PM, they will show it to him when he comes to Delhi.

"When he came to Delhi for the March 25 protest, he was briefed about the charges against each and every minister. We wrote letters to ministers regarding the allegations after the instruction from Anna," Kejriwal said.

Kejriwal said they all speak to Hazare and even today, he spoke to him and briefed him about the fresh allegations they were going to raise against Krishna.

Hegde said he had not received any documents on the charges against the ministers. "I have not met them and not discussed the matter one on one. Therefore, even today I do not know what are the materials against any one of the ministers," he said.

Levelling fresh allegations against Krishna, Bhushan and Kejriwal said that Hegde, the then Karnataka Lokayukta did not get hold of some files and could not frame the then Karnataka Chief Minister.

To this, Hegde said he did not have these files and it was mentioned in the report which he submitted. "I could not find anything against Krishna," he said.

 

  

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  • Gerald, modankap-bantval

    Wed, May 30 2012

    IF SHREEMAN HEGDE WAS NOT LOKAYUKTA AT THE TIME OF YEDDY ONE CANT IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TILL THE DATE !!!! ITS BEYOND THE IMAGINATION !!! JAI HOO SHREEMAN HEGDEJI

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  • Ismail, Moodbidri

    Wed, May 30 2012

    Dear Mr. Ajit Pinto, Udupi - DXB, Everybody knows, who is the sponsor of Anna. Please do not write against Mr. Hegde. He is an honest man. Do you know that his father was supporter of BJP. At that time, most of the people supporting BJP thinking that they were honest. After BJP coming to power in various states, we came to know their real picture.

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  • Ravi Hemmady, Muscat Barkur

    Wed, May 30 2012

    This team Anna is bunch of cartoons sailing on boat which they do not known where to go. everybody speaks on thier own no teamwork in fighting corruption.they all are old and sick people.If they does not have respect for a honest prime minister then they must not talk rubbish.First clean your team then only talk about currption.

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  • kiran, mangalore

    Wed, May 30 2012

    ISMAIL.K.PERINJE, PERINJE-YANBU/KSA..
    if anna team is north india..whats your problem ??
    is madarasa scholar madani / riyaz bhatkal are not south indians ??
    y they are symothisng with pak and considering killing kafris as holy work ??
    you have no problem when north indian sharuk khan,mahesh bhatt,shabana azmi praising pakkistan openly..
    or northy zakir naik openly saying celebration of holy/christmas are sin..
    so yoiur prbolem is norty/west..jst yoiu want political party who are controled by pfi,muslim league to feed biryani to ajmal..

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  • Peter Pereira, Pune

    Wed, May 30 2012

    This Anna is a Puppet of Safron Brigade. The masters are using this old man for their evil purpose to trun whole of India into Gujarat. But, they fail to realise that there are more educated and peace loving people in India who have understood the evil designs of Anna group. Why they only target Congress and till date not even a single word has been uttered by this old man against any of the corrup BJP Ministers or against the great leaders who were watching Blue films in Karnataka & Gujarat Assembly ?

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  • George DSouza, Mangalore

    Wed, May 30 2012

    HOW CLEAN TEAM ANNA IS TO MAKE SUCH A COMMENT AGAINST THE PM?IS KIRAN BEDIE OR KEJRIWAL CLEAN?IS THESE LAWYERS BHUSHANS WHO TRY TO PROVE WRONG AS RIGHT THROUGH THEIR ARGUMENTS ARE CLEAN? IS THEIR MOUTH CLEAN TO OMMIT SUCH WORDS AGAINST THE PM OF OUR NATION?.....BETTER THEY MAKE SELF ANALYSIS BEFORE PASSING COMMENTS ON PM OF OUR NATION.........

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  • Ajit Pinto, Udupi - DXB

    Wed, May 30 2012

    Justice Santosh Hegde rightly said !!Not a Party to Target PM!!! he belongs to CONGRESS party so how he will target his own party BOSS PM..in Karkala they are running business events he don't want CBI to come behind him so utter good statement i am not in your party.

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  • MOHAN D.KUMAR, Nirmala Travels,Mangalore

    Wed, May 30 2012

    ANNA IS VERY UPSET BECAUSE HIS NAME IS
    NOT INCLUDED IN NEXT PRESIDENT LIST.

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  • Alwyn, Canada

    Wed, May 30 2012

    People Anna ku Akka Karo and send him to oldage for rest. Simply drama nothing else this man can do. Pass his oldage time pass with young guys and mkae them happy in the name of corruption and make some bucks and take a break.

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  • McQueen, Mangalore

    Tue, May 29 2012

    Is Anna disgruntled? Is he taking it too far? Guaging the fact that the PM has the backing even of the opposition, has Anna lost his marbles? or is Anna becoming Ajja?

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  • Rathnakar A, Shirva

    Tue, May 29 2012

    When a team wins/loose the match its the captain who takes responsibility. On a Plane/Ship, its the captains duty/call for everyone's safety. Likewise, in every profession this is the case. The name "PRIME" Minister itself clearly indicates he is the BOSS of his clan of ministers. So, its not logical to say PM is clean but his ministers are corrupt. Who is the boss? PM is the boss and he has the authority over his ministers. He should have step down a long time back rather than saying, I WILL QUIT PUBLIC LIFE IF GRAFT CHARGES PROVED.. Its a nonsense. Whom he is trying to cheat? When company goes bankrupt CEO should step down first than blaming an accountant or clerk. This really show MMS immaturity and still living behind closed doors that he is CLEAN. What a joker?

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  • ISMAIL.K.PERINJE, PERINJE-YANBU/KSA

    Tue, May 29 2012

    Is Anna team still exist?Who is dictating terms to Anna?How could be PM,MM.Singh Corrupt?Is there any credible evidence to charge him.Anna team is not serious and they were controlled by Saffron brigades.I, guess, Anna Hazare might be misguided by ambitious member of right and left?
    Justice Santhosh Hegde,you are right and your stand may be vindicated sooner or later.The Anna team members are from North India who acts as dictator with vested interest.

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