NEW DELHI: Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Tihar jail after Hazare and his associates were taken inside the prison.
Shortly after Hazare's arrest, his campaigner Prashant Bhushan announced a series of agitational programmes, including a march from India Gate to Parliament on Wednesday evening and protest by supporters in Delhi streets.
He also called upon government employees to go on mass leave from Wednesday to show solidarity with Hazare.
As Parliament was disrupted by opposition parties which attacked government saying Hazare's arrest amounted to "murder of democracy" and was a throw-back to the days of emergency, home minister P Chidambaram rejected the charge asserting that anyone saying he would defy prohibitory orders was unacceptable in a democracy.
Chidambaram said Hazare was arrested under Sections 107 and 151 of the CrPC because Delhi Police felt that he could commit a cognizable offence.
He said Lokpal was not a panacea for all the corruption taht existed in the country and government was taking a five- pronged action even after which corruption would still exist. It is a battle that would be fought on various fronts and no one can dictate that either "my bill or no bill".
Noting that Delhi Police was ready to release Hazare on a personal bond if he would have given an undertaking that he will not defy prohibitory orders, Gupta said the Gandhian refused to do so.
Shortly after Hazare's arrest, his campaigner Prashant Bhushan announced a series of agitational programmes, including a march from India Gate to Parliament on Wednesday evening and protest by supporters in Delhi streets.
He also called upon government employees to go on mass leave from Wednesday to show solidarity with Hazare.
As Parliament was disrupted by opposition parties which attacked government saying Hazare's arrest amounted to "murder of democracy" and was a throw-back to the days of emergency, home minister P Chidambaram rejected the charge asserting that anyone saying he would defy prohibitory orders was unacceptable in a democracy.
Chidambaram said Hazare was arrested under Sections 107 and 151 of the CrPC because Delhi Police felt that he could commit a cognizable offence.
He said Lokpal was not a panacea for all the corruption taht existed in the country and government was taking a five- pronged action even after which corruption would still exist. It is a battle that would be fought on various fronts and no one can dictate that either "my bill or no bill".
Noting that Delhi Police was ready to release Hazare on a personal bond if he would have given an undertaking that he will not defy prohibitory orders, Gupta said the Gandhian refused to do so.