Hazare disbands Team Anna, members surprised

In a decision that took his colleagues by surprise Anna Hazare today disbanded his team and appeared to be speaking in mixed tones on the political course taken by the anticorruption movementu00a0 The decision to dissolve the team came as a surprise to some of the Team Anna members including Justice Santosh Hegde and Devender Sharma while Kiran Bedi who was in yesterday39s meeting with Hazare said she did not know what all it means Hazare39s announcement came in his blog which suggested that he was not fully with Team Anna on its journey into electoral politics The blog came after a meeting yesterday with some team members here Anna Hazare left with Arvind Kejriwal at Jantar Mantar Hazare did not speak about the future course of action but erstwhile Team Anna came out with a statement saying a quotvery inclusivequot preparatory committee is being constituted to take forward the formation of a political alternative quotGovernment is not ready to enact Jan Lokpal Bill How long and how many times we will go on fast Now it39s time to leave fast and give the country a political alternativeI think that corruption will not come down during this government tenure because it does not have the intention quotToday we are now stopping the activities of Team Anna Team Anna was formed to fight for Jan Lokpal We have also decided not to have any more talks with the government So from today so what is perceived as Team Anna is not there or Team Anna Core Committeequot Hazare said Hazare appeared to put some conditions for embarking on his nationwide tour to awaken people about his team political alternative saying he will travel across the country only if resolutions are passed by gram sabhas and similar forums in urban areas for an alternative quotAt Jantar Mantar the team asked the people whether they are for a political alternative All of you said yes But Jantar Mantar is not the whole country The country is big It is necessary to take the opinion of peoplequot Hazare said At another point he talked about going back to Maharashtra to continue his work quotI have proposed an alternative of sending good people to Parliament But I am not going to be part of any party nor will I contest elections After getting Jan Lokpal I will go back to Maharashtra where I will continue my activitiesquot He also said if people continue to support them like in the past 16 months then they will be able to send good people to Parliament and ensure laws for Jan Lokpal Right to Reject Right to Recall and decentralisation of power quotIf the support continuesin next five years it will be possible to built a corruptionfree India with the support of people and without any partyquot Reminding that the struggle for Jan Lokpal Bill has not ended with its decision not to engage with the government he said the 2014 elections is the last chance for making the country corruptionfree and it will be difficult for people to get another chance after that The Team Anna statement said quotthe committee was formed to negotiate Lokpal Bill with the government Since the movement for Lokpal has now become a movement for total revolution the core committee met its focused responsibilityquot it said Describing as quotunfortunatequot the dissolution of Team Anna key Team Anna member N Santosh Hegde said he did not think Hazare will be interested in forming a party quotMay be he didn39t want starting of political party attributed to team Anna So I think he must have disbanded it Somewhere things have gone wrong Their thinking to go to Parliament to change the attitude of the House is a good idea but the question is who should go to Parliament quotMay be division in the Team Anna had led Hazare to disband the team If that is so it is a sad thing I would want Team Anna to lead this strugglequot Hedge said u00a0