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Ralegan-Siddhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare will on Tuesday arrive in the national capital to hold parleys with his key aides on how to take forward the anti-graft movement spearheaded by him.The Gandhian crusader is reportedly unhappy with the people’s slow response to the anti-graft movement, which has been floundering for the past few months.Hazare has cast his net wider by inviting 35 top social workers from all over India for confabulations, which will be held on Wednesday, on how to strengthen and take forward the movement.At these meetings, Hazare is expected to make an appeal to these personalities — each renowned in their respective sphere – to either join or advise him on taking the anti-corruption crusade to its logical end.Some of the prominent persons who have been invited include- Prakash Amte, Medha Patkar, Abhay Bang, Girish Prabhune, Suniti SR, Vishwambhar Choudhary, Surekha Dalwi, Ulka Mahajan, Bhau Torsekar, Narendra Dabholkar, Jaywant Matkar and Avinash Dharmadhikari.While many have responded positively to the invitation, a few others have cited prior commitments preventing them from attending Hazare's deliberations.Hazare emphatically reiterated that he would not contest elections, nor form a political party – throwing cold water on a 'referendum' by India Against Corruption (IAC), the results of which were released on Monday evening.According to the IAC, its week-long survey attracted 737,041 respondents of whom 76 per cent favoured a political party, while the rest 24 per cent were opposed to a new political outfit.
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