The Anna Hazare team today met CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat here to explain the civil society position on the Lok Pal Bill ahead of the all party meeting on the issue.
Civil society activists Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi called on Karat this morning at CPI(M) headquarters to discuss the Lok Pal Bill and to inform him about Team Anna's views on the proposed legislation.
Bedi claimed that Karat was for an inclusive Lok Pal by including the Prime Minister and the entire bureaucracy to cover the issue of corruption.
"The CPI(M) is for inclusion of the Prime Minister and bureaucracy below joint secretary level. Karat was for an inclusive Lok Pal which includes merger of Anti Corruption wing of CBI with Lok Pal," she said.
The Hazare team's meeting with Karat came days after they met senior BJP leader L K Advani and CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan to drum up support for the bill.
Hazare is expected to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi tomorrow while a meeting, as suggested by Advani, with senior leaders of BJP will be held on July one.
Advani had maintained that his party was very much in favour of an effective Lokpal but a more fruitful meeting could take place with civil society activists only when his colleagues- Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her counterpart in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and party president Nitin Gadkari return to the capital.
