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Hazare praised the Trinamool Congress chief as a 'ray of hope' and said he will meet her in Delhi soon
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Pune: Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare on Thursday praised Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as a “ray of hope" and said he will meet her in Delhi and campaign for TMC candidates for Lok Sabha elections.
“We see a ray of hope in her. If people start backing such leaders than it will not take much time for the country to change," Hazare said.
He noted that Banerjee wore slippers, a simple sari, and did not take salary as chief minister. “Mukul Roy has come with a message from Mamata. I will go to meet her in Delhi. There we will discuss in detail on what path we will take," said Hazare after meeting the TMC general secretary Mukul Roy at his village Ralegan Siddhi.
The Gandhian activist said he had proposed a 17-point agenda for political parties in implementing a list of programmes in Parliament after the Lok Sabha elections if voted to power, which only Mamata had accepted.
Roy told PTI that Hazare would campaign for the TMC and would have a meeting with the party chief in Delhi on 18 February. He said his party was proud of getting Hazare’s support in a departure from his known stand of not canvassing for any political party in the elections. “We feel proud that such a senior mass leader has hailed the leadership of Mamata Banerjee who has replied to his 17-point economic programme which is being incorporated in the party election manifesto," he added.
Roy quoted Hazare as saying that Mamata was an honest leader committed to rooting out corruption.
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