Ahmednagar (Maharashtra):Veteran anti-corruption crusader Kisan Baburao Hazare, more popular as Anna Hazare, on Friday spurned Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Adesh Gupta's recent invitation to join him in a protest against the Aam Aadmi Party government.
Given the current circumstances, the senior leader from Maharashtra candidly admitted that no party in the country can give a bright future to the people or resolve their problems and hence, "my coming to Delhi will not make any difference".
In a stinging letter to Gupta, Hazare said that he was pained to read the BJP chief's invite asking him to launch an agitation against the AAP regime in the capital, on the lines of a similar crusade for Lokpal in 2011.
"The BJP has been in power since six years... You represent the youth which is the power of the nation... What could be more unfortunate than the fact that a party which claims to be the one with the biggest membership in the world has to call an 83-year-old man like me who lives in a 10x12 feet room, with no money, property or power," Hazare wrote.
He pointed out that now the BJP government at the Centre controls everything in Delhi (state) like the CBI, ED, state police, etc, and the Prime Minister even claims that he has taken strong steps to uproot corruption.
"If that is so, then why can't your government take steps against the Delhi regime if it has indulged in corrupt activities? Or, are you just making tall claims," Hazare asked pointedly.