<p>Anna Hazare team member Manish Sisodia said they have received a letter from Delhi Police giving permission for holding the protest at Jai Prakash Narain Park for two-and-a-half days.<br />"They have asked us to given an undertaking that we will end our fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park in that period. This is not acceptable to us," he said.<br /><br />"We are discussing the matter. We may now sit at Jantar Mantar," he said.<br />Hazare was denied permission by Delhi Police to hold fast at the capital's protest hotspot Jantar Mantar and instead offered Jai Prakash Narain Park as the venue.<br /><br />Lokpal bill drafting committee member Prashant Bhushan slammed the undertaking as totally unconstitutional.<br /><br />"They (Delhi Police) are saying you first give an undertaking that you will move out in 2 or 3 days. Then we will given you permission. Requiring such an undertaking is absurd and totally unconstitutional. Therefore, there is no question of giving any such undertaking," Bhushan said.<br /><br />The government yesterday denounced the agitation as "unjustified" with a message that it could intervene if Hazare's health fails.<br /><br />Home Minister P Chidambaram said Hazare's "extra Parliamentary protest" at this stage "seems unjustified" but was evasive on the delay in grant of permission, contending that the matter rests with Delhi Police.<br /><br />Hazare's earlier fast, when the Lokpal bill was not in place, was "perhaps right" but not now when a bill has already been introduced in Parliament and the government has "moved forward" on it, the Home Minister said.</p>
<p>Anna Hazare team member Manish Sisodia said they have received a letter from Delhi Police giving permission for holding the protest at Jai Prakash Narain Park for two-and-a-half days.<br />"They have asked us to given an undertaking that we will end our fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park in that period. This is not acceptable to us," he said.<br /><br />"We are discussing the matter. We may now sit at Jantar Mantar," he said.<br />Hazare was denied permission by Delhi Police to hold fast at the capital's protest hotspot Jantar Mantar and instead offered Jai Prakash Narain Park as the venue.<br /><br />Lokpal bill drafting committee member Prashant Bhushan slammed the undertaking as totally unconstitutional.<br /><br />"They (Delhi Police) are saying you first give an undertaking that you will move out in 2 or 3 days. Then we will given you permission. Requiring such an undertaking is absurd and totally unconstitutional. Therefore, there is no question of giving any such undertaking," Bhushan said.<br /><br />The government yesterday denounced the agitation as "unjustified" with a message that it could intervene if Hazare's health fails.<br /><br />Home Minister P Chidambaram said Hazare's "extra Parliamentary protest" at this stage "seems unjustified" but was evasive on the delay in grant of permission, contending that the matter rests with Delhi Police.<br /><br />Hazare's earlier fast, when the Lokpal bill was not in place, was "perhaps right" but not now when a bill has already been introduced in Parliament and the government has "moved forward" on it, the Home Minister said.</p>