Meet Team Anna

If Anna Hazare's strength lay in the numbers that rallied behind him, it was Team Anna that successfully took his message to the masses and made his fast a people's movement.

The bulk of the volunteers worked behind the scenes, away from media glare, performing multiple roles, ranging from manning security to providing medical aid to Anna's supporters at Ramlila Maidan.

We take a look at some of the prominent men and women that formed Team Anna.

Arvind Kumar Kejriwal is a former civil servant turned social activist. Kejriwal began campaigning against corruption while still a civil officer. He then resigned from his position at the Indian Revenue Services to start Parivartan, a grassroots movement for transparency in the government.

In 2005, he along with other activists brought the Right to Information Act into being, a crusade for which he won the Ramon Magsaysay award the year after.

The retired IPS officer turned social activist may have received flak for lambasting the government and especially politicians at the Ramlila stage on Saturday, but Kiran Bedi has been instrumental in channeling support for the Gandhian activist.

The ex-Director General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development has been one of the most vocal members and familiar faces of Team Anna, attracting media attention to the movement via constant Twitter updates and even a video of the leader while he was in Tihar.

She is also a Magsaysay awardee.

The one-woman-army that is Medha Patkar made headlines for leading the Narmada Bachao Andolan but was, to everyone's surprise, a late entrant into Anna Hazare's movement.

She is not new to fasting, having starved herself for three weeks in protest against the Sardar Sarovar dam in 1991, bringing herself close to death.

A postgraduate in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, she has been one of the most outspoken members of Team Anna. She became a key emissary in negotiations with the government in the last phases of Anna's fast.

Prashant Bhushan, the eldest of three children of eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan, is himself a respected and aggressive attorney.

Bhushan is an alumnus of IIT Madras and Princeton University, and has studied mechanical engineering, philosophy of science and economics.

His Public Interest Litigation helped unearthed country's largest-ever swindle, the 2G telecom spectrum, and brought him to limelight.

86-year-old Shanti Bhushan forms one half of the legal team behind the Jan Lokpal campaign (the other being his son, Prashant).

The father-son duo had set up the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reform (CJAR) in an effort to make India's judges accountable for corruption.

While serving as law minister in the Morarji Desai government, Shanti Bhushan was instrumental in introducing the Lokpal Bill in Parliament in 1977.

He was also the co-Chairperson of the Joint Committee set up in April 2011 to draft a Jan Lokpal Bill and is seen as a key resource in brokering a compromise for Team Anna's key demands.

Social activist Manish Sisodia is another key member of Team Anna and the anti-corruption movement. The RTI activist was formerly a producer at Zee News.

He is the co-founder of a society, Kabir, which spreads awareness about RTI.

He, along with Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Shanti Bhushan, was taken into preventive custody at the time of Anna Hazare's arrest.