Team Anna to hold public meeting in Gurgaon today / TNN 15Jul12

Team Anna to hold public meeting in Gurgaon today

 

TNN | Jul 15, 2012, 01.56AM IST

 

GURGAON: Ahead of July 25 protest rally in Delhi, the Team Anna will hold a public meeting in old city on Sunday to garner support of both urban and rural residents.

 

The meeting is scheduled to take place at Gaushala ground at 5pm. The venue can accommodate around 1,000 people, but the local organizers are expecting larger crowd. RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal will address the rally and ask them to join the July 25the demonstration at Jantar Mantar.

 

The police have made adequate security arrangements around the venue. A organizer said that Kiran Bedi will not be able to come for the event.

 

For Team Anna, Gurgaon public meeting is crucial as they are expecting large number of supporters to join them at Jantar Mantar. The team has alredy held 17 meetings in different parts of Haryana. Meanwhile, a large number of RWAs and local workers' unions have pledged support for Anna's case.

 

"We have got tremendous support and we are expecting people from both rural and urban Gugraon to joins us," said Ramesh Yadav, a volunteer with India Against Corruption.

 

"We are participating in the meeting and will support the Anna movement for stronger Lokpal bill," said RS Rathee, president of Gurgaon Citizen's Council.

 

Echoing similar view, Sarvadaman Oberoi, of the Mission Gurgaon Development, said: "The public meeting is very important to mobilize the residents."

 

Team Anna is holding indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in Delhi from July 25 against the UPA government on the issue of corruption and its alleged failure to enact a strong Lokpal as well as not setting up a Special Investigation Team to probe corruption charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his 14 Cabinet colleagues.

 

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