Issues raised by individuals not Team Anna's, says Anna Hazare

Only those issues taken up by the core committee can be related to Team Anna, former supreme court judge Santosh Hegde, a member of the team, quoted Hazare as saying. During a phone conversation today, Hazare told him that issues raised by individuals do not become "issues" of Team Anna, Hegde told reporters here.

Hazare's clarification comes in the wake of Prashant Bhushan's controversial remarks on Kashmir. Meanwhile, Hegde said he came to know that "certain persons" were going around taking his and Bhushan's name and collecting funds for "India Against Corruption". Ironically, they have been asking for payments to be made only in cheques, he said.

Hegde stressed that no body has been advised or authorised anywhere to collect funds on behalf of "India Against Corruption" and urged the people to guard against such elements.