New Delhi: Team Anna has hit back at the Congress's accusation that Anna Hazare is an RSS agent. It has released more photographs of senior Congress politicians with RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh.

Team Anna arrived in Mumbai ahead of its three-day fast, which will be followed by a 'jail bharo' (fill the jails) agitation.

Meanwhile, the team's plan to campaign against the Congress in the fothcoming Assembly elections in five states are under the Election Commission of India's scanner.

Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has warned Team Anna: "There is a growing feeling of propriety and ethics and whether this movement is entering into politics. Then questions will be raised. We feel that it is for the leaders of the movement that they should be very careful that they will not be on the wrong side of the law."

The CEC has struck a note of caution as the Lokpal debate in Parliament appears to be heading towards a photo finish of sorts, with a sepia-tinted 1983 photo of Hazare with RSS ideologue Nanaji Deskmush. The photograph is being cited by the Congress as additional proof of Hazare's association with the saffron fountainhead.

Team Anna rebutted the allegations by issuing a photograph of Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh with the Deshmuskh. The argument being: if photographs indicated shared ideology, the Congress would also be proved to be aligned to the RSS.

With the Congress leadership taking a strident line on Hazare and the Lokpal, the rest of the party is understandably on the offensive too, preparing to take the fight to the electoral battlefield in the five poll-bound states. RSS chief KS Sudarshan has also hit back, saying the UPA is trying to malign Hazare's anti-corruption movement.

On their part, Hazare and associates have been keeping the pressure up. In an open letter to MPs and the Prime Minister, they demanded that the Lokpal Bill be reconsidered. Changes in the selection process of the Lokpal and bringing the CBI under the proposed watchdog are their two major demands.

The Lokpal Bill, introduced last week in Parliament, will be taken up for discussion for three days from Tuesday. Simultaneously, Hazare and his team will be protesting through a public fast in Mumbai, pressing for their version of the Bill. Clearly, the battlelines have been drawn both inside and outside Parliament.