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Summary Anna Hazare and government reached an agreement which allowed him to carry out his hunger strike.
After two nights in Delhi’s Tihar Jail and hard bargaining, anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare and government reached an agreement early Thursday under which Delhi police removed all restrictions and allowed him to carry out his hunger strike for a fortnight in the spacious Ramlila Maidan here.The breakthrough in the battle of attribution between the two sides came in the wee hours of the day after top aides of Hazare met Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta and reached an agreement.The deal marked a major climb-down from government and polices earlier insistence that the fast would be allowed at JP Park, a smaller venue, only for three days with maximum of 5,000 protesters besides a number of other conditions.The agreement came more than 40 hours after Hazares arrest of Tuesday and release the same night. However, the Gandhian refused to come out of the jail, continued his fast and carried out hard negotiations from Tihar through his emissaries.A close aide of the 73-year-old Hazare said that it may not be possible for Hazare to launch his protest from the Ramlila Ground on Thursday as the venue was full of muck and needs cleaning up.I have just spoken to Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (K S Mehra) who has promised me that a Deputy Commissioner would supervise the cleaning up operations at the Maidan, Arvind Kejriwal said.Confirming the deal, home secretary R K Singh said, Delhi Police and Anna Hazare Team have agreed on the venue, duration, conditions etc.
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