Anna’s critic Aruna Roy meets Gandhian at Ramlila Maidan

“We are concerned about Anna. We have old links with him,” Roy said.

Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan said Roy is a well-wisher of Hazare and had come to meet him.

This is Roy’s first meeting with Hazare after the anti-corruption crusader began his indefinite fast on August 16.

Last Saturday,Roy had criticised Hazare for “deriding” democratic institutions and alleged that he was “ill-advised”.

Referring to Hazare camp’s assertion that sending the government Lokpal Bill to Standing Committee is a waste of time,Roy had said such Committees are an important institution and one should use it as much as possible.

In an apparent reference to Hazare setting a deadline to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill,she had said,“I think Annaji is ill-advised…anyone who says my view should be the only view is wrong.”

The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI),with which Roy is associated,has prepared a version of Lokpal Bill and presented it before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice and Personnel.