Anna puts conditions on Ramdev

Social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday made conditional allowing yoga guru Ramdev to join his proposed indefinite fast on Lokpal issue from August 16.

"We have certain conditions if Ramdev wants to sit on the fast along with me. If these conditions are met, we can think of his participation," Hazare told reporters here.

He, however, declined to spell out his conditions before the media. While supporting Ramdev's cause of unearthing of black money wholeheartedly, the Gandhian also made it clear that he had no reservations about the former's motives for the agitation.

Hazare said the Congress-led government's posturings against him and Ramdev were an indication that the government was not committed to rooting out corruption. He reiterated that he was ready to face bullets if the government tried to crush his agitation as was done with the Ramdev stir at Ramlila grounds.

"If I do not get permission to start my fast at Jantar Mantar, I will go to Rajghat. If that too is prevented, I will continue my agitation in jail, courting arrest," he said.