Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare today entered the fifth day of his indefinite fast for a strong Lokpal at Jantar Mantar with no sign of talks between Team Anna and the government to end the deadlock.
Delhi Police yesterday advised Team Anna to hospitalise Arvind Kejriwal and other team members as their health condition has worsened.
The police asked Team Anna to immediately hospitalise Mr Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai, who have been fasting since July 25, and warned that the organisers of the agitation will be squarely responsible if anything untoward happens to them.
Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) K C Dwivedi, in a letter to Team Anna member Neeraj Kumar, said doctors have advised that Mr Kejriwal, Mr Sisodia and Mr Rai need immediate medical intervention and be shifted to a hospital.
Mr Dwivedi said Team Anna’s continued fasting, resistance to accepting medical intervention and announcing from the dais at Jantar Mantar that there would be dire consequences following their forcible removal is not as per the terms and conditions that were mutually agreed upon and may lead to adverse law and order situation.
However, the 75-year-old Hazare and his team members saw a conspiracy to take the activists to hospital to end the anti-graft protest.
The doctors on Tuesday had advised Mr Kejriwal and Mr Rai to get hospitalised but both had refused. Mr Kejriwal is a diabetic and is feeling weak.
“We have come here for sacrifice, not to go to hospital.
I also warn the government that it should not try to arrest us and take us to hospital. Consequences will be bad,” Mr Kejriwal said.
—-UNI