'Was never a part of India Against Corruption': V K Singh

Union Minister of State for External Affairs General (retired) V.K. Singh rejected Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas' claim that two core members of Anna Hazare's team, including himself, were BJP sympathizers.

He said he was never a part of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement.

"My association with Anna is of offering him water when he was fasting. I wasn't a part of India Against Corruption and did not sit in their meeting either," said General (retired) V.K. Singh.

AAP leader Kumar Vishwas had told a private news channel that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had conspired with two members of the India Against Corruption team to ensure that the anti-corruption movement died a premature death.

"One of them is a union minister now, while the other will be projected as the CM candidate," Vishwas said, alluding to V.K. Singh and Kiran Bedi respectively.

Anna Hazare led the IAC movement for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill in parliament along with both Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal, before Kejriwal opted out of the IAC to float his own political outfit.

Bedi, on the other hand, was recently inducted into the BJP, and is now being fielded as the party's chief ministerial candidate for Delhi.