Mahajan held two one-onone meetings with Hazare, and according to BJP leaders, assured the striking activist that the Centre would fulfill all his demands. However, with no concrete assurance about timeline coming, Hazare told Mahajan that he would go ahead with the fast.The BJP however, did not give up. Even when Hazare went to Delhi, Fadnavis, in consultations with the BJP top brass, sent Mahajan to Delhi to be in touch with Hazare. BJP leaders said that he again got in touch with Hazare on March 24, the second day of his agitation. Though Anna Hazare has said that he would be back again if the government doesn’t fulfill the demand in that time, the government could at least convince him to end the strike.

Source: Economic Times April 02, 2018 01:48 UTC