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Kejriwal meets Muslim clerics for Jan Lokpal
movement
Monday November 14, 2011 09:40:19 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal met several Muslim clerics and
intellectuals here Monday to garner support from the minority
community for the Jan Lokpal movement, officials said.
According to sources in India Against Corruption (IAC), Kejriwal's
meetings were also aimed to counter the Congress' allegation that
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and not Muslims, were
supporting the Jan Lokpal movement.
"Though corruption affects all of us, it hits the poor and
downtrodden the most. And due to the poor financial conditions of
our Muslim brothers, they get more affected by corruption,"
Kejriwal told reporters.
"It's our hard-earned money that is being misused... We all should
get united for fighting corruption, which in turn would help in
development of our country," he added.
IAC officials claimed clerics and intellectuals, whom Kejriwal
met, assured him to extend their full support to the Jan Lokpal
movement.
"Those representing the minority community in the meeting were of
the view that irrespective of caste, creed and religion, people of
the country should come forward to root out the social menace,"
said an IAC activist of Lucknow.
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