He said, once the Bill is introduced in Parliament, it will become the property of the house and Members will take a final call on the Bill. He said that if Anna team was so confident it should wait for elections till 2014 and contest elections to show its strength

The BJP, on the other hand, justified the survey conducted by the Civil Society activists led by Anna Hazare. Briefing the media, party leader Arun Jaitley said that in a democracy everyone has a right to conduct referendum on important issues. Earlier, addressing a press conference here, Anna Hazare termed the justification for keeping the Prime Minister’s post outside the purview of the proposed Lokpal Bill as unfortunate.