The meeting is likely to discuss the crisis facing the team after it enmeshed in a series of controversies involving key members like Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi as well as the resignation of two prominent activists Rajinder Singh and PV Rajagopal, who cited the political turn taken by Hazare's anti-corruption movement as the reason for leaving the movement.
The meeting will also discuss the future course of action by the team amidst a renewed attack on Hazare by Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, who alleged that the Gandhian's anti-corruption agitation was part of an over-all plan of RSS-BJP to divert attention from right-wing terror.
Anna Hazare -- who is on a vow of silence since October 16 won’t attend the meeting -- will remain in touch on phone through his personal secretary. Besides Hazare, prominent member Justice Santosh Hegde, Medha Patkar and Kumar Vishwas are also not attending the Core Committee meeting. Hegde cited a “prior commitment” in Mumbai for not attending the meet.
Earlier yesterday, Kumar Vishwas, a prominent member shot off a letter to Hazare demanding suspension of the core committee and sought its expansion to make it more representative.
"Such attacks (against Team Anna members) and the subsequent clarifications will strengthen the conspiracy to divert the attention from the key issues...I request you to give greater representation to the Core Committee consisting of limited members and turn it into a hard-core committee comprising of 121 crore people.
“I once again urge you to suspend the present core committee and create a new system to enable us to see a corruption-free new India," Vishwas said in his letter to the Gandhian.
He said the leaders of the ruling party were targeting Hazare and each member of the core committee and trying to tarnish their public image and credibility.
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