Bhubaneshwar: Veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare has assured Arvind Kejriwal of support to Aam Aadmi Party in next elections if he selected good people as Candidate.
Referring to a telephonic conservation recently Kejriwal had with him, Anna said: “I told him to select good people.”
“I will examine the candidates. If they are found to be good, if they are proper candidates, I will campaign for those candidates,” he said, addressing a public meeting in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar.
The 75-year-old anti-corruption crusader also said the ways of him and Kejriwal are different but the aim is one.
Describing the movement launched by him as another freedom movement, the veteran activist also said the youths must prepare to sacrifice for the nation.
Obsderving that the task ahead as not easy, Hazare said: “You must be prepared for 15-20 years”.
Hazare on a three-day visit here was given a grand welcome by thousands of India Against Corruption (IAC) activists on his arrival at the Biju Patnaik Airport here.
He was escorted from the airport to the state guest house and then to the meeting venue by a motorcycle procession.
“He is scheduled to address farmers on Saturday in the coastal town of Jagatsinghpur, about 100 km from here. He is also scheduled to interact with students of a private engineering college in Bhubaneswar,” IAC’s national core committee member Akshay Kumar said.
Meanwhile Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal has demanded the withdrawal of a Delhi government decision to slash the admission quota for poor students from 20 to 15 percent in private schools operating on government land.
Gopal Rai, member of AAP’s executive committee, told reporters that the private schools built on government land in Delhi were minting money by violating the seat allotment conditions.
The Delhi government in 2007 allowed 20 percent reservation for poor students in 395 schools built on government land. However, a notification in 2011 reduced the admission quota for poor students to 15 percent.