Though it has made clear its intention to have a shot at power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an anti-corruption plank, Team Anna has not talked about contesting the Assembly elections slated this year-end.
Anna Hazare and his team have been targetting the UPA government on Lokpal issue for the past 16 months but they are yet to decide whether they would target the BJP governments in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh this year-end and Karnataka next year by contesting elections there.
Taking the political plunge, Team Anna has talked about a political alternative which they claimed will be people-centric.
"We have not yet decided," Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan told PTI when asked whether they would contest the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
A meeting of the Core Committee will be held "very soon" in which various issues, including contesting Assembly elections, will be discussed, a Team Anna member said.
But the main agenda of the meeting would be the 'Swaraj Yatra' to drum up support for its political alternative and find new allies even as a section of its associates are unhappy with the decision to turn political.
Prominent Team Anna members Santosh Hegde and Medha Patkar have already voiced their opposition to the move while a number of volunteers, who were part of the movement and the fast at Jantar Mantar, left the venue in protest.
"We respect it as their decision but not ours. It's not a criticism of anyone, not even of process. I knew this, no shock either. Alternative politics is needed, but beyond party. Movements' politics should aim at power to people. It is easy for politicians to fight us on their turf," Patkar said. (More)
