Hazare to go to Ramlila Maidan tomorrow

New Delhi, Aug 18 (PTI) Indian social activist Anna
Hazare will launch his protest at Ramlila Maidan Friday as the
venue is yet to get readied for the fast and will stay for one
more night in Tihar Jail, activist Arvind Kejriwal said.
"I spoke to Annaji. In view of the conditions at Ramlila
Maidan, Annaji will reach Ramlila Maidan tomorrow," Kejriwal
said.
Another Hazare associate Kiran Bedi said the Gandhian
will not move out of Tihar Jail till he embarks on his journey
to Ramlila Maidan to launch the protest.
Hazare reached an agreement with government early this
morning on the protest venue and the conditions.
As soon as Hazare announced that he would move to
Ramlila, MCD which owns the ground deployed around 100 workers
to clean the facility but the work was so massive that they
could not finish it by the afternoon as desired by the
Gandhian's team.
Earlier, Bedi had said that Hazare will go to the Maidan
after 3 pm today.
Hazare was lodged in Tihar Jail on Tuesday evening after
he was detained for going ahead with his plans to defy
prohibitory orders in J P Park here. However, he was released
later but he refused to come out of the prison demanding that
there should not be any restrictions on his protest.
After hard bargaining for two days, Hazare and government
reached an agreement early this morning under which Delhi
Police removed all restrictions and allowed him to carry out
his hunger strike for 15 days in the spacious Ramlila Maidan.
The breakthrough came in the wee hours of the day after
top aides of Hazare met Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta.
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