"Attacks against Team Anna will not deter us from keeping up the crusade of voter awareness. We are on mission mode for Jan Lokpal Bill," prominent Team Anna member Kiran Bedi said.
The attacker has been identified as one Jitendra Pathak of Jalaun. He was caught by the volunteers present and handed over to the police.
While being led away the man said that Kejriwal was misleading the public on the issue of corruption and that he had no personal grudge with Kejriwal. He also claimed that he didn't belong to any political party.
Team Anna core committee member Sanjay Singh later told reporters that Kejriwal has pardoned the attacker and asked the police not to register a case against him.
She said the incident exposed that there can be a connection between the attack on Prashant Bhushan and that on Kejriwal.
Bedi demanded an independent probe into the incident. Another key Team Anna member Medha Patkar said she was shocked "because this cannot happen to a person who has really worked to wipe out corruption.
"I really demand security, if Kejriwal agrees to do that. I demand immediate action by local police," she said.
Kejriwal was attacked this evening by a youth with a slipper while he was going to attend a programme here as part of their anti-graft campaign.
The youth identified as Jitendra Pathak of Jalaun district hurled the chappal at Kejriwal when he was about to reach the dais at Jhulelal park.
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