Pune:
UPA should leave aside ego and pass Lokpal Bill: Hazare
Social activist Anna Hazare today advised the Congress-led UPA government to "shed ego" and get the Jan Lokpal bill passed in current session of Parliament.
"I am hopeful the Lokpal bill will come up before Parliament before conclusion of current session by May end. The government should shed ego and think of the country and society (by enacting a strong Lokpal Bill)," he told reporters in Pune.
Anna Hazare will meet Yoga guru Baba Ramdev in Delhi on Friday. Anna Hazare said he will hold a joint rally with Baba Ramdev on June 3 to highlight the issues of Jan Lokpal and black money.
In reply to a question, he said Maharashtra ministers who have been named for irregularities in land allotment by CAG should be sentenced to "life imprisonment" if found guilty in the cases mentioned in the report.
Hazare said he would undertake a tour of Maharashtra from May 1 to mobilise public opinion on the issue of having a strong "Lokayukta" in the state.
Asked about the criticism against his close aide Arvind Kejriwal for using objectionable language against parliamentarians, he said, "I have told them to observe restraint."
Anna Hazare will meet his core team members on Sunday.