[rtitimes] Victory for anti-graft crusade, Hazare to end fast on Saturday at 10.AM

Victory for anti-graft crusade, Hazare to end fast on Saturday TNN | Apr 8, 2011, 10.03pm IST NEW DELHI: Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption won the battle on Friday with the government relenting to the demands made by the veteran social activist. Hazare on Friday night announced that he will break his fast at 10 am on Saturday. He is expected to take a final decision on Saturday bringing an end to the deadlock over the anti-corruption bill. Hazare's announcement came following his emissaries' (Arvind Kejriwal and Swami Agnivesh) meeting with Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal, law minister Veerappa Moily and minority affairs minister Salman Khurshid. According to TV reports, Pranab Mukherjee is likely to be the chairman and Shanti Bhushan to be the co-chairman of the proposed joint committee to draft an effective Lokpal Bill. The draft of the Lokpal Bill will reportedly be formally notified. Anna Hazare had demanded the appointment of a chairman and a co-chairman for the proposed joint committee to draft the Lokpal Bill and rejected the government's offer of setting up of the committee by a letter of the law ministry. He also said there should be no "tainted" ministers in the joint committee comprising civil society members and ministers. The government had sent a draft on Friday afternoon, following which Hazare sent his draft. "We replied to it and spoke to the three ministers about it," Swami Agnivesh had said. TRUTH SHALL ALWAYS PREVAIL http://www.freelists.org/list/rtitimes Milap Choraria: National Convenor : Movement for Accountability to Public (MAP) http://milapchoraria.tripod.com/msp   Co-Chairman: Former Law Minister of India Members: Shri Anna Hazare, Justice Santosh Hegre, Shri Prashant Bhusan, Shri Arvind Kejriwal all from Civil Society