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Bharat Mukti Morcha is STOPPED to Hold Massive Mulnivasi National Rally in Ramlila Ground as ANNA Hazaare has HIJACJKED the Ramlila Ground with surgical Precision. No Mass Movement is Possible to defend the Persecuted Indigenous Aborigine Rural Agrarian Indians, the Eighty Percent Majority. The Anti Corruption Movement is reminiscent of Ram Janma Bhumi Movement which Aborted Mandal Commission Reprt Implementation and toppled VP Singh Government! Curent Hazaare led Movement also ABORTS CASTE Census!It is, in Fact ,Anti RESERVATION Movement Reincranated, Relaunched with Brand Equity of Amti CORRUPTION!
Mind you, Bharat Mukti Morcha has Launched a Nationwide Campaign for Massive Rally in Ramlila Maidan on 1st September to press the demand for OBC headcount!
It is Nothing about Civil or Human Rights as it Never did Oppose UID or Citizenship Amendment Act or AFPSA!
Gandhian Anna Hazaare has become the Best Ever Master of Diversion and Mind Control after Gandhi, the Master Mind of Zionist Brahaminical Rule in India, the Architect of Brahamin Bania Raj!
Anti Corruption Campaign supported by NGOs and Hindutva Forces and Brahaminical Political Parties TARGET Indian Constitution and Constitutional Safeguards for Excluded SC, ST and OBC Communities along with Minorities and advoates EXTRACOSTITUTIONAL Brahaminical system led by Civil Society.
It is NOT targeted to CORRUPTION at all as it defends the FREE Market Economy and Zionist Brahaminical Hegemony.
The Pro US Democratic Movement is meant to perform an indefinite DRAMA to help the Brahaminical Parties to Pass all the Antipeople Bills, finacial reorms pushing Economic Reforms and FDI raj in US interest and it is sponsored by India Incs,MNCs and SHOWBIZ just because it is NOT and NEVER against FREE Market Economy or Market Dominating Ruling Zionist Brahaminical classes!
Thanks to Economic reforms and EXCLUSION ETHNIC Cleansing Economy Ruled by LPG Mafia,Millionaires in India are likely to see their wealth grow by a whopping 405 percent over the next decade -- the fastest in the world, according to a study by global consulting major Deloitte. The number of millionaires in India surged to a record high of 1.53 lakh in 2010, making the country's high networth individual (HNI) population 12th largest across the globe, as per a global study.
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16/08/2011
U.S. confident of India's ability to manage 'internal situation'
Washington: United States has exuded confidence in India's ability to manage its "internal situation" remaining consistent with the democratic values.
"India is a very strong and vibrant democracy, and we have confidence in India's ability to manage its internal situation in a manner that is consistent with the democratic values of the state," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters.
Ms. Nuland was responding to a question about her remarks made last week on the peaceful protest movement against corruption by social activist Anna Hazare.
"As you know, we support the right of peaceful, non-violent protest around the world. That said, India is a democracy, and we count on India to exercise appropriate democratic restraint in the way it deals with peaceful protest," she had said in response to a question last week.
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APSupporters of social activist Anna Hazare raise slogans outside a gate of Tihar Jail to lend their support to his fight against corruption in New Delhi on Wednesday.RELATED
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Government on Wednesday said Anna Hazare was free to go wherever he wants to and that Delhi Police will take a decision on whether he will be allowed to hold protest at JP Park here.
Union Home Secretary R K Singh said since Mr. Hazare has been released he is free to go wherever he wants to.
"He is in the office of the DIG, Tihar Jail. He rested at night and he and his supporters have been given a hall...I am quite sure that Delhi Police officers have been talking to him," he told reporters.
"He has been released. He can go wherever he wants, he is free and officers from Delhi Police will be asking him where he wants to go," Mr. Singh said.
On Anna's demand to protest at JP Park, the Home Secretary said the Delhi Police will take a call on the issue.
The 74-year-old Gandhian, who was ordered to be released on Tuesday night after being remanded in 7-day judicial custody, spent the night in the administrative block of the jail along with his associate Arvind Kejriwal.
Mr. Hazare was offered release after the Delhi Police issued warrants of release for him and seven of his associates, almost 13 hours after they were detained.
However, Mr. Hazare made it clear that he would come out of the prison only if he is given permission to stage the indefinite fast at the Jai Prakash Narain Park, the original planned venue for the hunger strike.
Anna refuses to leave jail, opposes time-limit on fast
PTISocial activist Anna Hazare at the Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Wednesday.But agrees to shift venue; Centre concedes other conditions
Faced with nationwide protests and slammed by a united opposition in Parliament over the detention of social activist Anna Hazare, the government got into a damage control mode on Wednesday to concede all but one condition for the anti-corruption crusader's indefinite fast on the Lokpal Bill. The condition — restriction on the number of days of fast — remained a stumbling block for Mr. Hazare to come out of jail. Late in the evening he was visited by a doctor for a check-up after almost two days of fasting.
Following day-long negotiations, the Delhi Police lifted the restriction on the number of protesters and cars and allowed use of loudspeakers up till 10 p.m. at the protest site. It also agreed to shift the venue to the Ramlila Grounds that can accommodate huge numbers.
The police initially allowed seven days of agitation, which was later extended to three weeks. This condition was rejected by Mr. Hazare and his team of negotiators including Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and Medha Patkar. Having declared an indefinite fast, Mr. Hazare wanted no restriction on time-frame.
Team Anna is agitating for a revised, effective and comprehensive Lokpal Bill that provides for setting up Lokayuktas in States, covers the lower bureaucracy, the Prime Minister, the higher judiciary and public grievances to deal with day-to-day corruption.
"The huge outpouring of public support has made the government see sense in at least allowing the fast to be held at a larger venue. They have realised that the Jayaprakash Narayan Park cannot accommodate so many people and have agreed to shift the venue to the Ramlila Grounds,'' Mr. Bhushan told The Hindu here.
The damage control exercise began early in the day with Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh announcing that Mr. Hazare was free to go anywhere and that he must discuss his fast with the Delhi Police. Since then there were hourly reports of the activist coming out of jail but that did not happen.
The issue was discussed in both Houses of Parliament after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh explained the government's point of view in a statement.
- The government today said it has approved 18 FDI proposals worth Rs 122.79 crore, including those of Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company, but has deferred a decision on the proposed sale of stake by Essar to Vodafone.
A total of 39 FDI proposals were taken up by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), but it put off a decision on 16, rejected four and directed one applicant to approach the Reserve Bank, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
In an FIPB meeting held on August 5, the board cleared the proposal of Pipavav Defence Offshore Engineering Company to infuse Rs 81.62 crore of foreign capital in the company.
The FIPB, headed by Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan, also approved Air Works India (Engineering) Pvt Ltd's proposal to make downstream investments in aviation companies in India. This FDI proposal was worth Rs 17.77 crore.
It has also approved the application of Walt Disney Company to undertake the additional activity of broadcasting and downlinking in India, the statement added.
Furthermore, the board has allowed Dish TV India Ltdto induct foreign equity through a transfer of shares to carry out the business of telecommunication equipment manufacturing. It also approved a Rs 5.85 crore investment in Gujarat-based Om Pile Pvt Ltd.
However, the board has deferred a decision on the proposed acquisition of a 5.48 per cent stake in telecom company Vodafone-Essar by two Mauritius-based companies for about Rs 2,700 crore.
The board has deferred the decision to "transfer shares from Resident to NR to carry out the activities relating to telecommunication," the statement said on the Vodafone proposal.
In addition, the board postponed a decision on the proposal of Essar Capital Holdings (India) to acquire equity shares of way of subscription to new equity shares or purchase of existing shares in an investing company engaged in the telecom sector.
In its last meeting, the FIPB had cleared 31 FDI proposals worth Rs 3,844.7 crore.
The FIPB offers single window clearance for proposals on FDI that are not allowed through the automatic route. The next meeting of the FIPB is scheduled on September 2.
The increase in India's HNI population has also helped Asia-Pacific overtake Europe as the region with the second highest number of millionaires, as per the annual World Wealth Report of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Capgemini.
"India's HNI population became the world's 12th largest in 2010, entering the top 12 for the first time," the report said.
At the same time, Indian millionaires also showed growing interest in investments like luxury collectibles (luxury cars, boats and jets), as also in sports, the annual survey found.
At the end of 2010, India's HNI population stood at 1,53,000, up more than 20 per cent from 1,26,700 in 2009, when India was ranked 14th.
The HNIs have been identified as those with investible assets of USD one million or more, excluding their primary residence, collectibles, consumables and consumer durables.
The report named the US as the country with the largest HNI population (31,04,000), followed by Japan, Germany, China, UK, France, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Brazil and India.
In Asia-Pacific, India has the highest number of millionaires after Japan, China and Australia.
Among the top 12 countries globally, India's growth in HNI population was highest at 20.8 per cent.
"Among emerging markets in 2020, India is likely to have the highest per capita wealth among millionaires with $4.25 million -- placing it ahead of the US," said a report from the New York-headquartered Deloitte Center for Financial Service.
"The $5-$30 million cohort in India will likely see the greatest growth, at 161 percent, while the $1-$5 million cohort and over $30 million cohorts follow closely with likely growth rates of 142 percent and 115 percent, respectively, over the next decade," it added.
The $1-$5 million group will likely continue to dominate the share of millionaire households in India, with 73 percent of millionaire households belonging to this cohort in 2020.
Among other fast growing countries, China's wealth among millionaires will grow by 394 percent, followed by Brazil at 257 percent, and Russia at 241 percent.
The study, titled 'The next decade in global wealth among millionaire households', said emerging markets would see a significantly higher growth rate in millionaire households compared to developed markets.
However, India is likely to have the lowest density of millionaire households in 2020 with only 0.3 percent of households holding over $1 million in wealth.
"While India ranks lower than the other BRIC nations in average density, the total estimated millionaire households are expected to be in the range of 0.69 million."
This would include approximately 0.51 million households in $1-$5 million group, 0.13 million households in $5-$30 million group and 0.05 million households in the over $30 million group.
Additionally, the study indicated that the average wealth per household in India is almost 50 percent higher than that of China.
Deloitte' study said while some of the wealth creation in India would continue to be driven by "old wealth" drivers like real estate and family business, a sizeable portion is also expected to come from the 'new wealth' drivers like investment, salary income, equity stakes and new business.
China is likely to be among the top 10 wealthiest economies by 2015 with an estimated $3.6 trillion in wealth.
Suspecting a "foreign" hand behind Anna Hazare's anti-graft movement, Congress today raised questions on the US' statement that India would exercise "appropriate democratic restraint" in dealing with peaceful protest and asked the government to inquire how a "lone" civil rights activist is drawing support.
"US never supported any movement in India since its independence. For the first time, the US said that Anna Hazare's movement should be allowed and there should be no obstruction to it. What was the need for the US to give this statement?
"It needs to be considered whether there is any power which is supporting this movement which wants to destabilise not only the governmnet but the country. We need to take the statement of the US seriously," party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters at the AICC briefing.
Asked whether it is the official position of the party and whether he is saying all this on the party's behalf as UPA government has many times in past been attacked by the Left over an alleged pro-US tilt more so after India signed the nuclear deal, Alvi said "all that I have said I have said on behalf of my party."
Asked whether Congress has made preliminary inquiries before making this allegation suggesting that the US was behind Anna's agitation, he said "government should inquire about it and find out the truth".
17/08/2011
Anna has finally his way... almost
Supporters, police differ over duration of planned fast; logjam irks PM; protests continue
New Delhi: Tens of thousands rallied across India for a second day on Wednesday as Gandhian activist Anna Hazare refused to leave Tihar Jail until he could fast for a strong anti-corruption law on his terms, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused him of trying to trip parliamentary democracy.
Tens of thousands of men, women and youngsters swamped the lawn around India Gate monument and marched to the nearby Jantar Mantar observatory in the heart of the capital shouting anti-government slogans. India Against Corruption group put the crowd strength at around 1.5 lakh.
Hundreds remained in a stadium elsewhere in Delhi where they had been detained a day earlier. Slogan-shouting and flag-waving crowds also laid a virtual siege to the Tihar Jail, from where the 74-year-old Hazare has refused to leave despite official orders that he was no more a prisoner.
Similar vocal pro-Hazare demonstrations - the crowds ranging from a few hundred to around 25,000 in Hyderabad - gripped towns and cities all over the country in what was described as a veritable Anna storm. As popular support for Hazare swelled, a beleaguered Delhi Police decided to lift all the restrictions they had earlier imposed on his hunger strike Tuesday. Hazare's refusal to obey them had led to his arrest.
Hazare aide and former police officer Kiran Bedi said on Wednesday evening that the main sticking point was the duration of his fast. Team Anna says the protest, including Hazare's fast, will last for a month. Police said it could go on for a week and hinted they could extend it by two weeks.
According to Hazare's associates, police have agreed to let the soldier-turned-activist hold his fast at the sprawling Ramlila ground and let any number of people to join him. Earlier, police had capped that number at 5,000, triggering a confrontation. Hazare will also be allowed to use a sound system.
Before Delhi Police did a U-turn Wednesday, Manmohan Singh hit out at Hazare in parliament. But the opposition dumped his arguments and insisted that the Gandhian be released. Speaking in parliament where an otherwise divided opposition has joined forces, Manmohan Singh said Hazare might have high ideals but his path was wrong.
The road Hazare "has chosen to impose his draft of a (Lokpal) bill upon parliament is totally misconceived and fraught with grave consequences for our parliamentary democracy", he warned.
In his 1,800-word statement, he said: "Our government does not seek any confrontation. But when some sections deliberately challenge the authority of the government and parliament, it is the bounden duty of the government to maintain peace and tranquility."
The statement triggered a heated debate. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj made a scathing attack on the government. "I reject your policy of curbing citizen rights," she told the prime minister in the Lok Sabha. Opposition MPs also asked why the government earlier chose to negotiate with the Anna-led civil society to frame a Lokpal Bill.
For a second consecutive day, street protests engulfed many cities and towns across India in support of Hazare -- who has emerged as the face of India's war on corruption -- and his version of the Lokpal Bill. Protests were reported from Chennai, Bangalore, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Guwahati, Ahmedabad as well as other places. In most places the young dominated the crowds.
While most demonstrators maintained they were not against any political party, many expressed disgust with Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Mumbai saw thousands take to the streets for a second day. They included students, lawyers, diamond merchants, mill workers, taxi and train drivers and even former soldiers. Almost everyone said they wanted a corruption-free India.
In Delhi's India Gate lawns, businessman Vinod Gupta told IANS: "We are here to protest against the injustice done to Anna Hazare. The common man and Hazare have been deceived by the Congress-led government."
Source: IANS
17/08/2011
Bank licence norms next week
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to release the draft guidelines on the entry of new banks next week. The norms will seek to minimise the downside risks of industrial houses promoting banks and ensure promoters of these new banks meet the "fit and proper" criteria, sources say.
Earlier this calendar year, the RBI had submitted the draft guidelines on new banking licences to the finance ministry for approval. The ministry cleared them with some changes recently, sources say.
The sources say the revised fit and proper criteria will make it difficult for any entity to get a licence if any case involving it is pending before any regulator. The RBI may also settle for Rs 1,000 crore as the minimum capital requirement for new banks. This will be five times the requirement when new banking licences were offered in 2001.
Sources say the ministry and the central bank have also resolved the differences over the proposed 74 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in new banks. However, the compromise formula could not be ascertained. In a discussion paper released in August last year, the RBI had suggested capping FDI in new banks at 49 per cent in the first 10 years, which could be subsequently raised to 74 per cent.
The move to increase the number of banks in the country was proposed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during his Budget speech for 2010-11 to expand financial services in rural centres.
According to sources, the RBI is looking to strengthen the governance guidelines for the fit and proper criteria on a continuing basis.
In the discussion paper, the central bank had proposed the background of promoters, directors and top executives of business houses planning to open banks be "rigorously examined".
It also suggested a no-objection certificate for the promoters' credentials, integrity and background be obtained from investigating agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate, income tax authorities and regulatory agencies.
The central bank had said it was relatively easy to assess the fit and proper criteria for promoters of non-banking finance companies, as these institutions were already regulated by it.
A number of industrial and business houses, including Larsen & Toubro, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Aditya Birla Group and Shriram Group, have expressed interest in setting up banks.
Top executives of these institutions said they would firm up their plans after reviewing the guidelines on new banking licences. Besides the fit and proper criteria, norms on minimum promoter holding, size of capital and foreign shareholding will also play an important role.
In May, the finance ministry had proposed two types of banking licences: one for basic banking activities and another for full-fledged banking operations. However, there were few takers for basic banking licences, with most companies expressing interest only in full-fledged banking licences. It was not immediately known if the draft guidelines would also suggest two types of banking licences.
Source: Business Standard
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NEW DELHI: The Government on Tuesday announced clearing of 31 FDI proposals worth Rs 3,844.7 crore, including that of Multiples Pvt Equity Fund and global tour operator Cox & Kings.
The Government's nod to Multiples Pvt Equity Fund -Scheme-1, Mumbai to bring in foreign funds worth Rs 1,000 crore is the largest FDI application that has been cleared.
The company can now make investments in securities of the Indian companies and distribute income realised on its investment, the Finance Ministry said.
The foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals were cleared by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in its last meeting, the Finance Ministry said.
Besides, the FIPB in its meeting held last month had deferred decision on 18 proposals to bring in FDI.
Cox & King got permission to carry out the business of leisure travel services, corporate travel services, visa processing services and foreign exchange services. The company proposes to bring in FDI worth Rs 450 crore.
Mumbai-based Ashwell Holding Company's proposal to get FDI worth Rs 852.6 crore, by selling equity to foreign entity, was also cleared.
Hinduja Energy (India) too got nod for induction of foreign equity into an Indian company, which does not have any operations and also does not have any downstream investments. The proposal is worth Rs 400 crore.
The government also approved proposal of Cayman Islands- based NCBG Holdings to invest Rs 4.45 crore in the defence sector.
The company got permission for induction of foreign equity in an Indian company to undertake the manufacturing of wiring sets, including wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft, ships or other machinery used in defence industry.
Other major proposals which have been cleared include that of France-based Natixis Global Asset Management to invest by way of indirect foreign investment in Pension Fund Subsidiary and French major bank BNP Paribas S.A to set up a wholly owned subsidiary to act as an investing company.
FDI proposals on which decisions were deferred include Vodafone Essar for transfer of share and Walt Disney Company India to undertake the additional activity of broadcasting and downlinking.
Decision on Dish TV India's request on transfer of shares to carry out the business of telecommunication equipment and provide management and marketing of 'agrani', in the area of mobile satellite communications too has been deferred.
The next meeting of the FIPB is scheduled to be held in the first week of August.
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NEW DELHI: An anti-corruption movement led by the feisty 74-year-old social activist Anna Hazare is snowballing into one of the biggest challenges in decades for the ruling Congress party and if not contained risks sparking India's own version of an Arab Spring revolt.
While no one is expecting an Egypt-like overthrow in the world's biggest democracy, a galvanised and frustrated middle class and the mushrooming of social networking sites combined with an aggressive private media may be transforming India's political landscape.
Hazare has quickly become a 21st century Mahatma Gandhi inspiration for millions of Indians fed up with rampant corruption, red tape and inadequate services provided by the state despite the country posting near-double digit economic growth for almost a decade.
"Democracy means no voice, however small, must go unheard. The anti-corruption sentiment is not a whisper-it's a scream. Grave error to ignore it," Anand Mahindra, one of India's leading businessmen and managing director of conglomerate Mahindra Group, wrote on Twitter.
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The young and old, rich and poor, without apparent political affiliations, took to the streets in a rare voice of solidarity -- a potential lethal cocktail for any party in power in India.
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Congress: why is U.S. propping up Hazare?
The Congress on Wednesday cast doubts on the U.S. role in Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign and wanted the Manmohan Singh Government to probe the "forces" employing the Internet to further the movement.
"Why was it necessary for the United States to promote Anna Hazare? It raises doubts …The U.S. has never commented on such a movement anywhere[else] in the world… we should take it seriously, we cannot ignore this," party spokesman Rashid Alvi said here.
The Congress said the social activist was not a member of any party. Neither had any organisation launched a movement of this magnitude. Which were the powers sending the Internet messages and SMS?
Even though some 100 countries became independent after India had achieved freedom, their stature had not risen as high as India's, Mr. Alvi argued. He did not identify the countries.
Referring to the raging debate in cyberspace supporting Mr. Hazare's campaign against corruption, the spokesman said the government should find out who were the forces behind the movement. "Which are the forces [behind it]? We should expose it. Why is the U.S. supporting this [movement], the Government should find out and also who are the forces operating within the country."
Asked whether the government shared his view, the spokesman said he was speaking on behalf of the party.
To questions about the United Progressive Alliance government promoting a strategic tie-up with Washington, including the civil nuclear power agreement, Mr. Alvi said this accord was in the interest of the country.
Keywords: Anna Hazare arrest, Tihar Jail, Anna Hazare fast, anti-corruption movement, India Against Corruption, civil society, U.S. statement, peaceful protests, Congress demand
Hundreds gather outside Tihar jail as Anna refuses to leave
The HinduSupporters of Anna Hazare during a candlelight vigil outside Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Shiv Kumar PushpakarRELATED
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Despite being offered release, Anna Hazare spent the night in Tihar Jail refusing to come out insisting on an unconditional release and permission to launch his fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park.
The Gandhian's aide Manoj Sisodia came out of the jail last night and said Mr. Hazare told the authorities that he will come out of the prison only after a written unconditional permission is given to continue his fast at J.P. Park, where he was to launch his hunger strike on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning, sources said, Mr. Hazare got up at around 5.00 a.m. and was involved in a discussion with Mr. Kejriwal and his other associates who are in prison along with him.
Mr. Sisodia on Wednesday said, "We don't have any information on when he will come out."
Outside the jail premises, hundreds of people stayed through the night and expressed solidarity with Mr. Hazare and his campaign against corruption.
R.K. Saxena, a school teacher, said: "I am here to support this great cause. Government must accept Anna's demand for the welfare of the country."
Shouting anti-corruption slogans and holding the national tricolour, people from all walks of life started coming in large numbers from early hours of the day and joined others who were standing outside the jail premises through the night.
Ashwaq, a 38-year-old businessman, said: "I am fasting with Anna and other supporters since yesterday. I will continue my fast till Anna is freed from the jail and all his demands are accepted by the government."
Morning walkers also joined the supporters demanding that the government release Mr. Hazare and his supporters.
Rakesh, a student, said "I am fasting with Anna for the bill and to uproot corruption from the country".
"It is inhuman to punish Anna and others like this. He is fighting for the people and for the country. Government must pass Jan Lokpal bill," Rekha Lalwani, a student of Delhi University, said.
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Hundreds of citizens maintained vigil through the night outside New Delhi's Tihar jail and were joined by many more on Wednesday morning, as they awaited the release of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare.http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2366033.ece
Government arrests Anna, then blinks
The HinduThe Tihar Jail in New Delhi, where activist Anna Hazare was lodged. Photo: V.V. KrishnanRELATED
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politicsparties and movementshttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2361160.ece'Anna to come out only if allowed to fast without conditions'
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2365210.ecePTISupporters of social activist Anna Hazare protest at the gate of the Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Wednesday.Anna Hazare and his team were in discussions with the government and police on Wednesday over the venue of his fast after he comes out of Tihar.
After meeting Mr. Hazare, lawyer Prashant Bhushan told the crowd of supporters outside the jail that the Gandhian would come out of jail only if he is allowed to fast without conditions.
Mr. Bhushan said government and police were discussing with Mr. Hazare and his aides options of fast venue — J.P. Park or Ramlila Maidan — where he could launch his fight for a strong Lokpal Bill.
He said if conditions are imposed, then Mr. Hazare will continue with his fast inside the jail.
He also told the crowd that people of Delhi have been asked to come to India Gate for a march to Jantar Mantar in support of Jan Lokpal and fight against corruption.
Mr. Hazare had earlier sought permission from Tihar Jail authorities for a meeting with some of his top associates to plan his strategy.
The meeting was attended by Mr. Bhushan, Kiran Bedi, Medha Patkar, Manish Sisodia and Swami Agnivesh. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand was also present at the meeting.
Mr. Hazare also met Sri Sri Ravishankar and yoga guru Baba Ramdev in the prison.
Mr. Hazare, who was ordered to be released on Tuesday night after a day-long detention before he was to begin his fast demanding a strong Lokpal, had refused to come out of the prison unless he was allowed to protest from J.P. Park without conditions.
Earlier, Ms. Bedi and Swami Agnivesh announced to the hundreds of supporters waiting since last night that the 74-year-old Gandhian was about to come out of the prison anytime now.
"The government has bowed down. We will have to be prepared to go to J.P. Park in a peaceful manner," Swami Agnivesh said.
Solidarity with Anna
Ms. Bedi, Swami Agnivesh and Ms. Patkar joined hundreds of protestors on Wednesday expressing solidarity with Mr. Hazare outside Tihar while a large number of the Gandhian's supporters took out marches across the city.
Mr. Hazare's supporters in huge numbers also gathered outside Chhatrasal Stadium, which was converted into a special detention area on Wednesday morning and shouted anti-corruption slogans demanding that the Gandhian be allowed to protest at J.P. Park.
Ms. Bedi, who was detained on Tuesday and released later, and Swami Agnivesh arrived outside Tihar at around 11.30 a.m. where a swarm of protestors had gathered since Tuesday night to express solidarity with Mr. Hazare.
Ms. Patkar, who reached the protest spot early in the day, was granted permission to meet Mr. Hazare after being initially refused to enter the premises.
Ms. Patkar approached jail authorities seeking permission to meet Mr. Hazare, who was lodged in the administrative block after he refused to be released, but was initially denied. However, later the authorities changed their stand and allowed her.
After the permission was denied, Ms. Patkar claimed that jail authorities told her that Mr. Hazare was not in their custody and could not allow her to meet him. "It was a right to meet a man in jail. They told me that he is not in their custody and he is not a jail bird. Nobody could be given permission. This is a conspiracy of the government. They are not tolerating any basic rights," she said addressing the protestors gathered outside Tihar Jail.
At Chhatrasal Stadium, scores of people holding tricolour marched on the tracks while others lent support to them from outside.
Nationwide protests catch Congress by surprise; insisting on unconditional release, Hazare refuses to come out of jail
Shaken by the upsurge of popular anger which the "preventive" arrest and jailing of Anna Hazare on Tuesday morning triggered, a nervous Centre rushed to release the anti-corruption crusader by nightfall. With a rapidly swelling crowd of supporters outside the Tihar Jail, Mr. Hazare, however, insisted that his release be unconditional. Until our going to press, he was refusing to leave the jail premises without an assurance that he would be free to press ahead with his planned protest at JP park here.
His associates said he was apprehending arrest again since he intended to press ahead with the fast that the Manmohan Singh government has outlawed by imposing prohibitory orders at the venue.
Earlier in the day, the elderly Gandhian was sent to seven days' judicial custody soon after the Delhi Police picked him up from his home to prevent him from going ahead with his indefinite fast in favour of a revised anti-corruption Lokpal Bill.
Also arrested were Kiran Bedi, Shanti Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal, key members of the Jan Lokpal group that had taken part in the negotiations with the government on the draft law.
Mr. Hazare was preparing to leave for the Rajghat ahead of his fast when the police swooped down on him. Once inside the jail, he announced the beginning of his indefinite fast. His detention triggered angry protests across the country with people courting arrest in Delhi and staging impromptu demonstrations in different cities and towns. Parliament was adjourned over a demand by Opposition parties for a statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh explaining the "undemocratic" action.
In a rare show of solidarity, the BJP and the Left later came together to demand the "immediate release" of Mr. Hazare and his associates.
"This is the second fight for freedom, and this movement will not halt now," said Mr. Hazare, as he was whisked away. Throughout the day, his supporters continued to court arrest at different venues in Delhi, culminating in a massive candle-light march from India Gate along the Rajpath.
Addressing a press conference, senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan asked government servants to go on mass leave on Wednesday to express solidarity with Mr. Hazare and to join mass protests, prompting Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to describe the call as "completely wrong."
With Opposition parties and activists likening the early morning crackdown to the Emergency of the mid-1970s, senior Ministers sought to defend the police action. "Mr. Hazare was taken into custody after the Delhi Police came to a conclusion that he and his supporters would commit a cognisable offence by defying prohibitory orders," Mr. Chidambaram said at a press conference. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, too, told journalists that "while everyone had the right to protest, if the police perceive a law and order situation, it can impose conditions."
But by the evening, the government was forced to rethink its confrontationist stand. Unconfirmed reports said the decision to release Mr. Hazare and his associates came after a meeting between the Prime Minister and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Terming it a "sad day" for Indian democracy, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the move showed that the government was in panic. "Do a group of citizens who disagree with the government have the right to protest and dissent or not, or have we abandoned civil rights and the right to protest in this country?"
CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat said the detentions were an attack on the democratic rights of people. "We reject the argument that because the Lokpal Bill was in Parliament, there can be no protest on it. If it is so, then even the Women's Reservation Bill is before Parliament, and there are so many protests over it. Did the government accuse them even once as it has Anna Hazare?"
In Patna, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar described Mr. Hazare's detention as "murder of democracy" and said it was a "rehearsal of emergency," which the people would never tolerate.
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WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE
TO
THE UNTOUCHABLES
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"lt may be your interest to be our masters, but how can it be ours to be your slaves ? "
—THUCYDIDES.
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Contents
PREFACE
Chapter I : A strange event
Chapter II : A shabby show congress abandons its plan
Chapter III : A mean deal congress refuses to part with power
Chapter IV : An abject surrender congress bets an inglorious retreat
Chapter V : A political charity congress plan to kill by kindness
Chapter VI : A false claim does congress represent all ?
Chapter VII : A false charge are untouchables tools of the British ?
Chapter VIII : The real issue what the untouchables want
Chapter IX : A plea to the foreigners let not tyranny have freedom to enslave
Chapter X : What do the untouchables say? Beware of Mr. Gandhi!
Chapter XI : Gandhism the doom of the untouchables
APPENDICES1
WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI
HAVE DONE TO
THE UNTOUCHABLES
Dedication
(11) And Naomi said, Turn again, my Daughters; why will ye go with me ? (12) go your way. . . (14) And they lifted up their voice, and weft again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her, (15) And she said. Behold thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods ; return thou after thy sister-in-law. (16) And Ruth said. Intreat me not to leave them; or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. (17) Where thou diest, will I die, and there will be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me"
I know how, when we used to read the Bible together, you would be affected by the sweetness and pathos of this passage. While you will be glad to read it again you will, I am sure, ask me what made me recall it in this connection. I wonder if you remember the occasion when we fell into discussion about the value of Ruth's statement "Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." I have a clear memory of it and can well recall our difference of opinion, You maintained that its value lay in giving expression to the true sentiments appropriate to a perfect wife. I put forth the view that the passage had a sociological value and its true interpretation was the one given by Prof. Smith, namely, that it helped to distinguish modern society from ancient society. Ruth's statement " Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God" defined ancient society by its most dominant characteristic namely that it was a society of man plus God while modern society is a society of men only (pray remember that in men I include women also). My view was not then acceptable to you. But you were interested enough to urge me to write a book on this theme. I promised to do so. For as an oriental I belong to a society which is still ancient and in which God is a much more important member than man is. The part of the conversation which is important to me at this stage is the promise I then made to dedicate the book to you if I succeeded in writing one. Prof. Smith's interpretation had opened a new vista before me and I had every hope of carrying out my intention. The chances of developing the theme in a book form are now very remote. As you know, I am drawn in the vortex of politics which leaves no time for literary pursuits. I do not know when I shall be out of it. The feeling of failure to fulfil my promise has haunted me ever since the war started. Equally distressing was the fear that you might pass away as a war casualty and not be there to receive if I were to have time to complete it. But the unexpected has happened. There you are, out of the throes of Death. Here is a book ready awaiting dedication. This happy conjunction of two such events has suggested to me the idea that rather than postpone it indefinitely I might redeem my word, by dedicating this book which I have succeeded in bringing to completion. Though different in theme it is not an unworthy substitute. Will you accept it ?
B. R. A.
To,
F.
In Thy Presence is the Fullness of Joy.
"In 1892, there took place in England a new election to Parliament, in which the Conservatives headed by Lord Salisbury lost and the Liberals headed by Mr. Gladstone won. The remarkable thing about this election was that notwithstanding the defeat of his party at the polls. Lord Salisbury—contrary to Parliamentary convention—refused to surrender his office to the leader of the Liberal Party. When Parliament assembled, the Queen delivered the usual gracious speech from the throne containing the legislative programme of Lord Salisbury's Government and the usual address to Her Majesty was moved from the Government side. Lord Salisbury's Government was an illegitimate Government. It was a challenge to the fundamental principle of the British Constitution, which recognised parliamentary Majority as the only title deed for a Party's right to form a Government. The Liberals took up the challenge and tabled an amendment to the address. The amendment sought to condemn Lord Salisbury's Government for its insistence on continuing in office, notwithstanding the fact that it had no majority behind it. The task of moving the amendment was entrusted to the late Lord (then Mr.) Asquith. In his speech in support of the amendment, Mr. Asquith used the now famous phrase—" Causa finita est: Roma locuta est." (Rome has spoken and the dispute must end). The phrase was originally used by St. Augustine but in a different context. It Was used in the course of a religious controversy and had come to be used as a foundation for Papal Sovereignty. Mr. Asquith used it as a political maxim embodying the basic principle of Parliamentary Democracy. Today it is accepted as the fundamental principle on which Popular Government rests, namely, the Right of a Political Majority to Rule. It told instantaneously against Salisbury's Government and must tell against all parties who fail at the polls wherever Parliamentary Democracy is in operation.
I was reminded of this maxim when the results of the Elections to the Provincial Legislatures in India, which took place in February 1987 under the Government of India Act, 1985, were announced. Congressmen did not actually say "Causa finita eat : India locuta est." But so far as the parties, which had opposed the Congress in the Electiohs, were concerned, that is what the results of the Elections seemed, to proclaim. Having led the Untouchables against the Congress for. full five years in the Round Table Conference and in the Joint Parliamentary Committee, I could not pretend to be unaffected by the results of the Elections. To me the question was: Had the Untouchables gone over to the Congress ? Such a thing was to me unimaginable. For, I could not believe that the Untouchables—apart from a few agents of the Congress who are always tempted by the Congress gold to play the part of the traitor—could think of going over to the Congress en masse forgetting how Mr. Gandhi and the Congress opposed, inch by inch up to the very last moment, every one of their demands for political safeguards. I had therefore decided to study the Returns of the election that took place in 1937. .
While I was convinced that such a study was of great necessity from the point of view of the Untouchables, the work proceeded at a snail's pace. This was due to three causes. The work had to be kept aside for some time to give precedence to other literary projects, the urgency of which demanded a degree of priority which it was not possible to refuse. Secondly, the Blue Book on the Election Results of 1987, which was submitted to Parliament soon after the elections had taken place and which is the primary source for figures regarding the elections, proved inadequate and insufficient for my purpose. It does not give separately figures showing how the Scheduled Castes electors voted and how many votes the Scheduled Caste candidates got. It gives figures showing how electors in different constituencies voted, without making any distinction between Hindu voters and the Scheduled Castes voters. Circular letters had therefore to be issued to the various Provincial Governments requesting them to send me the figures showing distribution of voting by Scheduled Caste electors and the number of votes secured by each Scheduled Caste candidate. This inevitably delayed the work.. Thirdly, the examination of these election returns proved a very laborious task as the statistical tables given In the Appendices to this book will show.
The work thus lingered on. I regret very much this delay. For I know how much mischief has been done by the Congress during the interval. The Congress has advertised the election results to bolster up its claim to represent the Untouchables. The main point in the advertisement is that out of 151 seats assigned to the Scheduled Castes the Independent Labour Party which was organised by me got only 12 seats and the rest of the seats were captured by the Congress. This mess is served out from the Congress kitchen as conclusive proof to show that the Congress represents the Untouchables. This false propaganda seems to have gone home in some quarters. Even a man like Mr. H. N. Brailsford has reproduced in his 'Subject India' this absurd Congress version, without any attempt at verification and with apparent acceptance of its truth. I am sure that the results of the elections as set out in this book will hit the nail squarely on the head of this false propaganda. For, the Congress version of the results of the election is an utter perversion. As a matter of fact the results of 1937 Election conclusively disprove the Congress claim to represent the Untouchables. Far from supporting the Congress version the results of the Election show : (1) that out of 151 the Congress got only 78 seats; (2) that the Untouchables in almost every constituency fought against the Congress by putting up their own candidates; (8) that the majority of 78 seats won by the Congress were won with the help of Hindu votes and they do not therefore in any way represent the Scheduled Castes ; and (4.) that of 151 seats those won by the Congress in the real sense i.e., with the majority of votes of the Scheduled Castes, were only 88. As to the Independent Labour Party it was started in 1987 just a few months before the elections. It functioned only in the Province of Bombay. There was no time to organise branches in other Provinces. Elections on the ticket of the Independent Labour Party were fought only in the Province of Bombay and there the Independent Labour Party for from being a failure obtained an astonishing degree of success. Out of the 15 seats assigned to the Scheduled Castes in Bombay Presidency it captured 18 and in addition it won 2 general seats. I am therefore glad that at long last I have succeeded in completing the work which proves beyond the shadow of doubt that the story that the Congress captured all the seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and that the Independent Labour Party was a failure, is a wicked lie. I trust that the book will prove interesting and instructive for all those who are interested in the subject and who desire to know the truth.
Before closing this preface, I wish to express my gratitude to those from whom I have received assistance in one form or another. I am grateful to the Provincial Governments for the troubles they have taken in responding to my circular and sending me additional facts and figures which I had called for. My thanks are also due to Mr. Karan Singh Kane, b.a., m.l.a., at one time, Parliamentary Secretary in the U. P. Congress Government, for the help he has rendered in the most laborious task of preparing the tables."
The reader who reads the above preface and compares it with the table of contents will at once find that the book deals with topics which lie far outside its boundary. The curious may like to know how the foregoing part of the preface is related to the table of contents. The explanation lies in the fact that the book in its present final form is quite different from what it was in its original form. In its original form it covered in very brief compass matter now dealt with on a vastly bigger scale in Chapters IV, V, VI, VII and IX and the statistical appendices. The foregoing part of the preface belonged to the book in its original form. That is why I have put it in inverted commas. The curious may also like to know why the final form of the book came to be so different from the original. The explanation is quite simple. The proofs of the book in its original form were seen by a friend and co-worker. He was dissatisfied with the scope of the book and insisted that it is not enough to deal with election results to expose the Congress claim to represent the Untouchables, I must do more. I must expose the efforts of the Congress and Mr. Gandhi to improve the lot of the Untouchables for the information of the Untouchables and also of the foreigners whom the Congress had deluded into accepting its side by misrepresentation of facts. Besides the difficulties arising out of the fact that the book was already in proof form, this wan a tall order and appeared to be beyond me having regard to other claims on my time. He would not, however, give way and I had therefore to accept his plan. The original work which would have been about 75 pages in print had to be completely recast and enlarged. The book in the present form is a complete transformation. It records the deeds. of the Congress and Mr. Gandhi from 1917 to date in so far as they touch the problem of the Untouchables. Much is written about the Congress, far more about Mr. Gandhi. But no one has so far told the story of what they have done about the Untouchables. Everyone knows that Mr. Gandhi values more his reputation as the saviour of the Untouchables than his reputation as the champion of Swaraj or as the protagonist of Akimsa At the Round Table Conference he claimed to be the sole champion of the Untouchables and was not even prepared to share the honour with anyone else, I remember what a scene he created when his claim was contested. Mr. Gandhi does not merely claim for himself the championship of the Untouchables. He claims similar championship for the Congress. The Congress, he says, is fully pledged to redress the wrongs done to the Untouchables and argues that any attempt to give political safeguards to the Untouchables is unnecessary and harmful. It is therefore a great pity that no detailed study of these claims by Mr. Gandhi and the Congress has been undertaken so far.
With the Hindus who have been blind devotees of Mr. Gandhi this study, although it is the first of its kind, will not find favour: indeed it is sure to provoke their wrath. How can it be otherwise when the conclusion arrived at is " Beware of Mr. Gandhi" ? Looking at it from a wider point of view, there is no reason for the Hindus to be enraged about it. The Untouchables are not the only community in India which thinks of Mr. Gandhi in these terms. The same view of Mr. Gandhi is entertained by the Muslims, the Sikhs and the Indian Christians. As a matter of fact, the Hindus should cogitate over the question and ask: why no community trusts Mr. Gandhi although he has been saying that he is the friend of the Muslims, Sikhs and the Scheduled Castes and what is the reason for this distrust ? In my judgment, there cannot be a greater tragedy for a leader to be distrusted by everybody as Mr. Gandhi is today. I am however certain that this is not how the Hindus will react. As usual, they will denounce the book and call me names. But as the proverb says: "The caravan must pass on, though the dogs bark." In the same way, I must do my duty, no matter what my adversaries may have to say. For as Voltaire observed: Who writes the history of his own time must expect to be attacked for everything he has said, and for everything he has not said : but these little drawbacks should not discourage a man who loves truth and liberty, expects nothing, fears nothing, asks nothing and limits his ambition to the cultivation of letters."
The book has become bulky. It may be said that it suffers by reason of over-elaboration and even by repetition. I am aware of this. But I have written the book especially for the Untouchables and for the foreigners. On behalf of neither could I presume knowledge of the relevant facts. For the particular audience I have in view, it is necessary for me to state both facts as well as arguments and pay no regard to the artistic sense or the fastidious taste of a cultivated and informed class of readers.
As it is my intention to make the book a complete compendium of information regarding the movement of the Untouchables for political safeguards, I have added several appendices other than those of statistical character. They contain relevant documents both official and non-official which have a bearing upon the movement. Those who are interested in the problem of the Untouchables will, I believe, be glad to have this information ready at hand. The general reader may complain that the material in the Appendices is much too much. Here again, I must state that the Untouchables are not likely to get the information which to the general reader may be easily accessible. The test adopted is the need of the Untouchables and not of the general reader.
One last word. The reader will find that I have used quite promiscuously in the course of this book a variety of nomenclature such as Depressed Classes, Scheduled Castes, Harijans and Servile Classes to designate the Untouchables. I am aware that this is likely to cause confusion especially for those who are not familiar with conditions in India. Nothing could have pleased me better than to have used one uniform nomenclature. The fault is not altogether mine. All these names have been used officially and unofficially at one time or other for the Untouchables. The term under the Government of India Act is 'Scheduled Castes.' But that came into use after 1985. Before that they were called 'Harijans" by Mr. Gandhi and 'Depressed Classes' by Government. In a flowing situation like that it is not possible to fix upon one name, which may be correct designation at one stage and incorrect at another. The reader will overcome all difficulties if he will remember that these terms are synonyms and represent the same class.
I am grateful to Professor Manohar Chitnis for the preparation of the Index and to Mr. S. C. Joshi for help in correcting the proofs.
B. R. AMBEDKAR.
24th June 1945.
22, Prithviraj Road,
New Delhi.
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2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2011 Indian freedom struggle against corruption
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Protesters take part in protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi
Date
13 March 2011 – 9 April 2011
4 June 2011 – 5 June 2011
15 August 2011 – ongoing
Location
* India
With protests also being held in various other countries by NRIs in the USA, Australia, United Kingdomand more.
Status
Government version of Bill sent toStanding committee in theParliament, which civil society call it "Jokpal" and not "Lokpal". No law yet passed to bring back overseas black money
Goals
Passing stronger anti-graft laws to tackle ever-increasing corruption in India and bring back Indian black money stashed in Swiss and other banks overseas.
Characteristics
Non-violence, Satyagraha,demonstrations, sit-ins, signature campaigns, fast-unto-death, Jail Bharo Andolan
Casualties
The 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement refers to a series of protests against the Government of India intended to seek strong legislation against graft, otherwise known as corruption. The protests have centred on a proposed bill, called the Jan Lokpal Bill, which the protestors believe could address the issue if it was suitably worded and enforced. The movement has gained momentum in particular since 5 April 2011, when Anna Hazare, a prominent activist, first went on a hunger strikewhich he called a "fast unto death".
The protesters are of the opinion that the government desires to dilute proposals contained in the original draft of the Jan Lokpal bill. They believe that the changes would make the body intended to oversee the issue, the Lokayukta, no more than a powerless advisory body in the Indian bureaucracy. Hazare, who is a Gandhian, went on his initial hunger strike when talks designed to consider the issues broke down. He had demanded the creation of a joint drafting committee for the bill, with members from both "civil society" and government.[3]
Following Hazare's initial, much publicised protest action, a second major protest saw controversial events take place at the Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi on 4 June 2011. The figurehead for these protests was Swami Ramdev and their aim was to highlight the need for strong legislation to bring back to the country what has been called "black money" deposited abroad. Ramdev demanded that untaxed money invested abroad should be declared to be the wealth of the nation. Further, that the act of caching money, which is alleged to have been obtained illegally, in foreign banks should be declared a crime against the state. He also demanded that the nation's wealth held in foreign banks should be brought back and that India should sign the United Nations Convention against Corruption. It is estimated that aroundUS$ 350 billion to US$ 1400 billion worth of illegal money is in foreign banks.[4][5]
The protests led to the creation of a movement that saw protests being organised in various cities and towns of India. Protests included fasts, candlelight vigils andrallies. The protests are unusual in India as they have no political affiliation and the protesters have been hostile to any attempt by political parties to use them to strengthen their own political agenda.
[edit]Background
See also: Corruption in India, List of alleged scams in India, and Indian political scandals
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Mahatma Gandhi fought for our freedom but we are yet to achieve real independence. The second struggle of independence has started. We are ready to sacrifice our lives but will not buckle under pressure
"
—Anna Hazare[6]
Anna Hazare's hunger strike at Jantar Mantar inDelhi, on the second day of his fast.
Issues regarding corruption in India have become more prominent in recent years. The country was subject to socialist-inspired economic policies between the 1950s and the late 1980s. Extensive regulation, protectionism, and public ownership led to slow growth.[7][8]Forbes commented in 2007 that the system of bureaucratic controls called License Rajwas often at the core of corruption.[9]
The Vohra Report of 1993, submitted by the former Indian Union Home Secretary N. N. Vohra, studied the problem of the criminalization of politics and of the nexus among criminals, politicians and bureaucrats in India. The report contained several observations made by official agencies on the criminal network which was virtually running a parallel government. It also discussed criminal gangs who enjoyed the patronage of politicians – of all political parties – and the protection of government functionaries. It revealed that political leaders had become the leaders of gangs. They were also connected to the military. Over the years criminals had been elected to local bodies, State Assemblies, and even theParliament.[10][11][12]
The Right to Information Act of 2005 has helped civilians work effectively towards tackling corruption. It allows Indian citizens (except those living in Jammu and Kashmir) to request information, for a fixed fee of US$ 0.22), from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days.[clarification needed] Activists have used this to uncover graft cases against various politicians and bureaucrats, one consequence being that some of those activists have been attacked and even killed.[13]
Various scandals were discovered in the period 2010-2011, including the 2G spectrum scam,Adarsh Housing Society Scam, and the Commonwealth Games scam. These involved various Ministers and also members of the Armed Forces, and they demonstrated how entrenched corruption had become in India.[14][15][16] They led also to popular, non-political movements campaigning to fight graft via new legislation.
The Jan Lokpal Bill is a proposal to establish an independent body to investigate cases of corruption within a year and to ensure a speedy prosecution within two years of an investigation being started.[17]. The Jan Lokpal Bill was proposed by members of the civil society (primarily social activists from the NGO India Against Corruption as an alternative to the Government-drafted Lokpal Bill. The August 16 protests started as a result of significant disagreements over the two versions of the Bill between the civil society leaders and the Government.
[edit]Protest timeline
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13 March 2011
A poster against corruption in India
- A group of Delhi residents drove around the city dressed in similar clothing in an attempt to raise awareness of corruption issues and to gain support for the Jan Lokpal Bill.[18]
28 March 2011
- There were protest marches in various cities across the world, including some in the US. These included a 240-mile march in California that had begun on 12 March in San Diegoand ended on 26 March at the statue erected in honour of Gandhi in San Francisco.[19]
30 March 2011
- Kapil Dev, a former captain of the Indian national cricket team, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, complaining that the many investigations into scams arising from the recent Commonwealth Games had achieved nothing so far. He said that, "Why can't we have an independent Lokpal to look into these scams. I consider you as the cleanest politician in the recent history and I urge you for a Jan Lokpal Bill."[20]
4 April 2011
- Hazare announced that he would commence his "fast unto death" and that this would last until a comprehensive measure to tackle corruption was introduced. He claimed that the government had excluded "civil society" from the panel set up to draft the Jan Lokpal Bill and implied that at least one of the people who was to be on the drafting committee - Sharad Pawar - might be unsuitable for that role because of his large landholdings. Kiran Bedi and Swami Agnivesh voiced their support for Hazare.[20]
5 April 2011
Protesters have come out in support of Anna Hazare
- Hazare initiated his fast at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Elsewhere, people attended a protest atFreedom Park, Bangalore.[21]
- Campaigners for India Against Corruption (IAC) estimated that a petition circulated in the city of Pune which demanded that the government enact a bill had attracted between 5000 and 6000 signatures between 3 April and 5 April. Hazare has been involved with IAC, a group established by various prominent activists with the primary purpose of achieving the legal enactment and subsequent enforcement of a strong version of the Jan Lokpal bill.[22]
7 April 2011
Protests have continued as the Government fails to offer better terms to the activists
- Two rounds of talks failed. There was agreement regarding constituting a panel to examine the Bill but the government would not accede to demands that it should be a formally constituted panel or that Hazare should lead it. As a consequence of this, Hazare continued his fast.[23]
- Narendra Modi, the chief Minister of Gujarat lashes out at Manmohan Singh for resisting the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill[24]
- Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian National Congress party and the head of theNational Advisory Council appealed to Hazare to end his indefinite fast.[25]
- Hazare and the protesters tried to keep the protests non-political. No politicians were welcome at the site of the fast. Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti and pro Sonia Gandhi journalist Barkha Dutt were forced by civilians to leave, after the protesters objected against their presence which they believed was harming the integrity of their movement.[26]
8 April 2011
Protesters in Delhi
Protesters in Pune
- Protests spread to numerous other places, including Mumbai, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Chennai, Patna, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Ranchi, Pune, and the University of Jammu.[27]
- The government continued to squabble with the activists stating that the bill drafting committee will be headed by a government appointed minister and not a civil society member as the protesters demanded to avoid allowing the government to make the bill less powerful.[28]
- The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, met with the President of India to outline to her how the government was going ahead with the demands of the population.[28]
- 15 supporters of Hazare on fast were hospitalized.[29]
- Bollywood came out in support of the protests, with actors, musicians and directors speaking in support of the movement and Hazare. Director Farah Khan, actor Anupam Kher, music director Vishal Dadlani, poet-filmmaker Pritish Nandy and actor Tom Alter all visited Jantar Mantar; others stated their support for the movement via social networking websites or the media. Oscar winning Indian composer A. R. Rahman also declared his support for the anti-graft movement.[citation needed]
- Qatari artist M. F. Hussain showed his support by drawing a cartoon of Hazare.[30]
- Indian students at Cambridge University, the former alma mater of the Indian prime minister also expressed their support for the movement.[31]
- Many prominent people from the government agencies as well as from various corporate houses came out in support of the movement. Some of them were - Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan[32] (also called the Metro Man of India), Punj Lloyd chairman Atul Punj, Maruti Suzuki chairman R. C. Bhargava, Herogroup's Sunil Munjal, Tata Steel vice-chairman B Muthuraman, Bajaj Auto Chairman Rahul Bajaj, Godrej Group head Adi Godrej,Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Kotak Mahindra Bank vice-chairman & managing director Uday Kotak. They all declared their support for Hazare and the movement.[33][34]
- ASSOCHAM President Dilip Modi and FICCI Director General Rajiv Kumar, too came out in support of the movement.[33]
- The Government of India accepted the compromise formula that there be a politician chairman and an activist, non-politician Co-Chairman. It was reported that Pranab Mukherjee will be the Chairman of the draft committee while Shanti Bhushan will be the co-chairman.[35] Bhushan was one of the original drafters of the Lokpal Bill along with Hazare, Justice N. Santosh Hegde, advocatePrashant Bhushan, and RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal.[36]
9 April 2011
- After accepting all the demands of Hazare, the Government of India issued a Official Gazette saying that the draft of lokpal would be made and presented in the coming monsoon session of Lok Sabha.
- Victory celebrations took place at locations throughout the country.[37] and even Hazare's village.[38][39][40]
- Bollywood lauded the outcome, repeating their support for the movement.[41]
- Protesters and leaders of the movement alike stated that the path to attaining complete passing of the bill is still a difficult one, and the movement has to see more harsher days ahead.[42]
- Many commentators have called the movement the 'wake-up' call for India.[43][44]
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I want to tell the government that we are not two but one. You should wipe it out of your mind that you are the masters. You are not the masters,
the people are. Gram Sabha is more powerful than Lok Sabha or State Assemblies
"
—Anna Hazare[6]
- Within a day of the beginning of the agitation, more than 30,000 people had pledged their support to the Lokpal Bill. Organisers of the India Against Corruption said 30,000 people from Maharashtra expressed their support on their website.[45] The website has 20,000 members in Mumbai alone.[46] Within a few days the Facebook page forIndia Against Corruption had more than 220,000 likes.[47]
16 April 2011
- The first meeting regarding a draft of the Lokpal Bill was held on 16 April. The government agreed to audio-record all meetings of the Lokpal Bill panel and to hold public consultations before a final draft is prepared.[48] Hazare demanded that the proceedings be televised live but the government refused.[49]
4 June 2011
- Swami Ramdev begins his indefinite hunger strike at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to bring back the black money stashed in tax havens abroad.[50]
- 65,000 followers gathered at Ramlila Maidan[51]
- In a press conference in the evening Kapil Sibbal made public a letter from Ramdev's camp to call off the hunger strike. Ramdev took it as a betrayal and hardened position.
5 June 2011
- At midnight, police raid the ground when most protesters are sleeping and Ramdev is busy at a meeting with his core group.[52]
- A large police force lob tear gas shells, burn the place and lathicharge the crowd at 1 am (IST) to evict them.
- Police had arranged buses to drop supporters at railway stations and bus stands in advance; had ammunition ready and were in battle-gear wearing vests and helmets and kept some ambulances on standby.
- Delhi Police arrest Ramdev, who was disguised in a salwar kameez with a group of female protesters heading peacefully towards theNew Delhi Railway Station
- Ramdev is held in a government guesthouse for a few hours and then sent to Dehradun in a BSF aircraft.
- Ramdev is sent to his Patanjali Yogpeeth ashram in Haridwar where he delivers a press conference.[53]
- 53 people are injured and are treated at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) hospital, AIIMS Trauma Center and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.[54][54][1]
- Protesters huddle near the Metro station, bus depots and railway stations. Many walk down to Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and other nearby ashrams.[55] According to New Delhi railway station authorities, supporters continued to leave in batches through the course of the day. While several supporters spent the day at a park near Ramlila Maidan, others took shelter at an Arya Samaj facility in Paharganj.[56]
- Ramdev is prohibited from entering Delhi for 15 days.
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We are really curious why the government is against the idea of telecasting live the proceedings of the committee. The people ought to know the reasons why there is a difference between your and our viewpoint,
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—Shanti Bhushan[57]
9 June 2011
- Hazare describes his fight against corruption as the "Second Freedom Struggle" and set an ultimatum of 15 August 2011, as the last date to pass a strong Jan Lokpal Bill threatening to otherwise intensify his anti-corruption agitation and start another fast from 16 August.[58]
16 June 2011
- The Government and the civil societysplit wide open due to differences in jointly drafting bill. Government representatives informed that if a consensus on the common bill is not reached, two drafts will be sent to the Cabinet, one drafted by the Government and the other drafted by the civil society. Team Anna also claimed that only 15 points out of total 71 recommended were agreed and included in the joint draft. Hazare declared that if the government version of the bill was passed in the Parliament, he will start his hunger strike from August 16, 2011.[59]
15 August 2011
- Anna Hazare announced at a press conference that he and his supporters was determined to go ahead with his fast on 16 August, 2011 as planned. He also urged people to court arrest to push for a stronger Lokpal bill.[60]
- Section 144 was imposed a night before the planned protest date, at JP Park, Rajghat and Dilli Gate, which prohibits assembly of five or more persons.[60]
16 August 2011
- Anna Hazare was detained by Delhi Police early morning before he could start his hunger strike at JP park, Delhi. Delhi Police had asked Anna not to leave his home, the request which was declined by the later, and hence was detained at his residence in Mayur Vihar. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Manish Sisodia and more than 1200 supporters[61] were also taken to preventive custody by the Police.[62][63]
- Anna Hazare was sent to seven days judicial custody to Tihar jail for refusing to sign a personal bond and come out on bail.[64]
- Shehla Masood, an RTI activist and a strong supporter of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, was shot dead around 11.30am IST. Unidentified assailant shot her just in front of her house in Koh-e-Fiza, Bhopal.[2]
- Kiran Bedi and Shanti Bhushan, detained by Delhi Police on morning ahead of Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death, were released in the evening at around 6:30pm IST.[65]
- Current telecom minister Kapil Sibal was greeted with black flags and booed by a group of students at a seminar on the Jan Lokpal bill.[66]
- With Government of India, preparing to release Anna Hazare late night within a day itself,[67] however the later refused to come out ofTihar jail until the government agrees for an unconditional permission to hold protests at JP Park.[68]
17 August 2011
- After almost a day, Anna still refuses to leave jail and spend night in a room in Tihar jail, despite the government decision to free him.
- Delhi Police made concessions for Anna Hazare to fast stepping up from seven days to 14 days and finally 21 days at Ramlila Maidan.[69]
[edit]Use of cyberspace
Hacker group Anonymous has come out in support of a civil movement against corruption in India by hacking one of the key website of a Indian government of National Informatics Centre. This cyber movement has been called "Operation India".[70]
[edit]Government response
Hazare's protest has led to the resignation of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar from the Group of Ministers on corruption.[71] On 8 April, the government started seriously considering the demands of the protesters. The government has stated that it will table the bill in the parliament in the upcoming Monsoon session.[72] On 9 April, the government finally agreed to have a 50:50 distribution of the Government appointed officials and the members of the civil society.[73] On May 13, PM Manmohan Singh stated that the Indian government has completed the process for ratification of UN Convention against Corruption.[74]
[edit]Political response to the Jantar Mantar protests
Bhartiya Janata Party
The Bhartiya Janata Party supported Hazare, with a prominent member, Arun Jaitley, urging the government to take Hazare's fast very seriously.[75]
Another prominent BJP figure, L.K. Advani suggested that a meeting of political parties should be convened to discuss the issue "particularly in the context of black money and curbing money-power in elections".[76]
BJP leader Narendra Modi posted on his Facebook account that he was praying for Hazare's health. He also published an open letter to Hazare thanking him for the latter's support for the development work in Gujarat. Modi also warned Hazare of possible vilification by a certain 'powerful-group' that wishes to defame Modi and Gujarat. He reiterated his support for the Jan Lokpal Bill.[77]
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) came out in support of Anna Hazare. Prakash Karat pledged support to Hazare over the Jan Lokpal Bill.[78]
[edit]Ramlila ground protests
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Ramdev claimed that Bharat Swabhiman Yatra had evoked massive support from the masses and more than 10 crore people had been directly involved with the movement. His yatra ended on June 1 at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh after traveling over 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi) across the country. Almost 3.2 million "netizens" joined the campaign.[79]
Ramdev declared that a people's movement to liberate the country from rampant corruption and build a strong spiritual 'Bharat' would be launched by him in June. The movement was called "Satyagraha against Corruption".[81] He declared one of the main objectives of the movement was to bring about an end to corruption and bring back black money stashed away in various financial institutions in the country and abroad. On the midnight of 5 June, police raided the site where Ramdev was fasting against corruption and black money issues in the capital and forcefully detained him and removed his supporters from the site after firing tear gas shells and resorting to lathicharge to end his day-old indefinite hunger strike on black money issue.[82] Seventy-one people were injured and moved to hospital, four of whom were reported to be in critical condition.[51] Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee called the police action "unfortunate", but added that the government had to do that as Ramdev had no permission to hold a protest at the Ramlila Ground.[83]
He maintained that second phase of Bharat Swabhiman Yatra would begin from October 2011 year and the Yatra would once again travel a distance of 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi).[80]
[edit]Background to the Ramlila ground protests
On March 16, 2011, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued its manifesto for the upcoming Bengal polls in 2011, which said that "[if the party came to power, it would] launch a drive to unearth black money, especially those (sic) stashed in Swiss and other tax havens." The issue was taken up by Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United), who said on March 27 that there were US$ 1,470 billion stashed by Indians in Swiss banks.
Four senior Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Kapil Sibal, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Subodh Kant Sahay met Ramdev and discussed issues and his demands at Delhi Airport on June 1, 2011.[84] Back-channel talk between two sides were held in The Claridges, New Delhi on June 2, 2011.[85] Next day talks were held for a third time between the ministers and Ramdev and both sides claimed consensus. The government gave a response to the demands while Ramdev planned to go ahead with his hunger strike.
250,000 square metres (0.25 km2; 0.097 sq mi) of overhead waterproof tent was set up and the ground was booked for 40 days for the protest. A volunteer centre at the extreme end of the maidan was set up. 650 bathrooms and toilets was stationed inside the maidan, out of which 40 percent were for women. Also provided for was drinking water facility, medical facility and a media centre with three communication towers.[86]
[edit]Police action against the demonstration
Police fired tear gas, burned the place and lathicharged peacefully fasting men, women and children. 53 persons were reportedly injured and were treated at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) hospital, AIIMS trauma center and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.[54][1]
About 5000 supporters were still missing according to Ramdev.[87] Jadeep Arya, a key advisor on Ramdev's team, said that about 19 girls students from the Chotipur Gurukul who were seated near the dais were thought to be still missing.[88] Behen Suman, women's representative of the Trust, said many of these girls were roughed up when the police tried to reach Ramdev and were crying since police officials were pulling their hair, dragging them and their clothes were torn. Police, however, said no one was missing.[88]
There is an allegation that CCTV footage of the raid is missing.[89][90]
[edit]Police clarification on action
A senior police officer commented on the police action saying, "there were talks in the police headquarters since June 2 that Baba Ramdev would be detained as we knew he is definitely not going to hold a Yoga camp." Allegedly, Ramdev's detention was not a spontaneous decision but had been planned for several days.[52]
The police said Ramdev was informed around 11 pm (IST) on Saturday that his permission to continue his agitation had been canceled. By that time, over 5000 police officers, including 12 battalions of the Delhi Police, three battalions of Rapid Action Force, two of Central Reserve Police Force commandos and local police were briefed by senior police officers to get ready for action. The Ramlila Ground was then surrounded by several buses and tempos,[vague] heading towards the ground from Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab but were sent back from the borders.[52]
[edit]Protest against police action on Ramdev's demonstration
How can the government stop anyone from protesting? The
land is not their 'father's property'. The citizens are the masters of
this country and the ministers are their servants". - Anna Hazare
( When some press reporter ask him how can he protest
at Jantar Mantar since prohibitory orders)
"
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On 6 June the National Human Rights Commission of India issued notices to the Union Home Secretary, Delhi Chief Secretary and the Delhi City Commissioner of Police seeking reports within two weeks regarding the midnight crackdown at the Ramlila Ground.[92]
In a response to the crackdown Hazare said that he would hold a one day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar on 8 June. The venue was changed to Rajghat when he could not get police permission to do so.[54]
[edit]Aftermath of the Ramlila ground protests
Protests were held in many different parts of country, including the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jammu, and Lucknow. Protests against the action also spread to Nepal.[93][94][95][96]
[edit]Civil society response
Ramdev accused the government of not being serious about discussing issues of corruption and black money, alleging that government negotiator Kapil Sibal had cheated him through "scheming and cunning" attitude. He alleged that there was a conspiracy to kill him and a "threat" was given to him during a meeting with senior ministers. He also claimed that the ruling government chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the United Progressive Alliance government will be responsible for any threat to his life and alleged that he was nearly strangled by the police.[97] After being evicted from Delhi, Ramdev wanted to continue his fast from Noida but was denied permission to do so by the Uttar Pradesh government. He decided to continue his hunger strike and satyagraha from Haridwar only until June 12, 2011.[98][99][100]
Hazare said there might have been some faults with Ramdev's agitation but that the beating up of people at night rather than in the day-time was a "blot on democracy" and that "There was no firing otherwise the eviction was similar to Jallianwala Bagh incident." He said that the "strangulation of democracy" would cause civil society to launch protests throughout the country to "teach government a lesson".[101][102]Other civil society leaders, such as Arvind Kejriwal, also termed the use of police force on non-violent sleeping protesters as undemocratic. Shanti Bhushan and Swami Agnivesh also criticised the police action to end the hunger strike.[103][104]
[edit]Government response
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh called Ramdev a "cheat" and "fraud".[105] According to him the government had reached an agreement before the protests were held.[106] The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote to Ramdev, asking to cease-and-desist from holding the protests.[107] Nationalist Congress Party General Secretary Tariq Anwar said that "Both Hazare and Ramdev are blackmailing the government and they should first peep into their own hearts." [108] Pawan Bansal commented on the midnight police action and said that "It was not a crackdown, we [the government] had to do it to maintain law and order".[109]
[edit]Other political parties response
- Bharatiya Janata Party: The party called the police action to break up the hunger strike "undemocratic".[110] BJP President Nitin Gadkarisaid they will organize a 24-hour long Satyagraha at Rajghat independent of government's permission.[111] Nitin Gadkari further added; "Women and children were attacked. They were lathi charged and teargas was used. This reminds us of the Emergency days in 1975. We strongly condemn it," and "The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi used force on democratic ways of protest against corruption and black money. I condemn the action of Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi. They should apologize for the act,"[112] Gujarat Chief MinisterNarendra Modi strongly condemned the incident comparing atrocities on Ramlila ground by comparing the government with Ravana-Lilafurther adding that "It is one of the worst days of Indian history. The Prime Minister had said during the elections that he would bring back black money stashed in Swiss banks within 100 days of coming into power. But today, it is two years and nothing has happened."[112]Senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani said that the police action reminded him of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and added that the police crackdown on Ramdev is a "naked fascism".[112] Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said: "This is not democracy...the police cannot alone had taken such a step. It had the approval of the Prime Minister and full approval of the Congress President.[112]
- Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, condemned the government's midnight crackdown on Ramdev and demanded that Supreme Court of India order an investigation into the incident stating that justice cannot be expected from the Central Government.[113][114]
- Samajwadi Party: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav condemned the incident saying that the action shows Centre has lost its mental balance. Charging the ruling Congress Party, Yadav further said: "A Congress leader said that Baba is a thug. I want to say that Congress is the biggest thug and it should introspect its deeds.[113] "The government swooped down on Ramdev and his supporters as if it were carrying an attack on a foreign enemy," Yadav told reporters at a press conference.[114]
- Rashtriya Janata Dal: RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav accused Ramdev of being a front for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[115]
- Communist Party of India (Marxist): CPI(M) termed the police action at the protest site of Ramdev as "deplorable and shortsighted". However, they found fault with the yoga guru for making the issue of black money "farcical" by entering into a secret agreement with government.[116] "The manner in which Ramdev's demands were drafted and the way in which he has conducted his interactions with the government, coming to a secret agreement to withdraw the hunger strike on the basis of assurances, then reneging and announcing its extension trivialised the seriousness of the issue of black money and made it farcical," the party said.[114]
- Janata Dal (United): Nitish Kumar, leader of JD(U) and the Chief Minister of Bihar, condemned the attack saying "It is a major blow to democracy and an attack on the democractic rights of the people ... It is also an attack on the fundamental rights of the citizens."[112]
[edit]Suo Moto Cognizance by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of India issued notices to the Union Home Secretary, Chief Secretary of Delhi, Delhi administration, and Delhi Police Commissioner asking them to respond within two weeks, after taking suo motu cognizance of forceful eviction of Ramdev and his followers from the Ramlila ground.[117]
However, the court declined to entertain a petition filed by advocate Ajay Aggarwal, who said that no FIR[vague] had been registered against the police officials. The bench expressed its displeasure that before the matter came up for hearing before it, the entire contents of the petition were leaked to the media.[117]
[edit]August protests
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[edit]Background
On July 18, 2011, Hazare declared that he had written a letter to Prime Minister informing him about his decision to go on an indefinite fast from August 16 at Jantar Mantar. Hazare said that it was the right of Indian citizens to protest and the government could not crush their movement unlike the Ramlila ground protests. Hazare declared that he was ready to get arrested and beaten up and informed the Delhi Police about his protest.[118][119][120]
Hazare's crusade for a strong lokpal Bill found support in Mumbai as the Mumbai Taximen's Union, comprising over 30,000 taxis, agreed to extend their support to Hazare's cause on August 16. The union's decision came after a meeting with Hazare's team in Mumbai. The union's proposal was to keep all taxis off the roads or ply less number of taxis on August 16. The Mumbai chapter of India Against Corruption claimed that till July 26, nearly 44,000 people had shown interest in joining the protest from August 16.[121]
In Allahabad, the legal community expressed their support in Hazare's campaign against corruption. Lawyers of Allahabad High Court held protests in support of Anna Hazare at Allahabad by burning copies of Lokpal Bill, blocking roads and raising slogans against the callus carefree of the government and also pledged to go on hunger strike at Allahabad from August 16 in support of Anna Hazare.[122]
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad also came out in support of Hazare's movement, saying that for a strong Lokpal, people from across the country should support the campaign.[123]
In a referendum conducted by India Against Corruption in Karnataka, about 94.3% of Chikkaballapur constituency and 79.7% of Bangalore South voted to bring the prime minister under the ambit of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The results showed that a majority of the population wanted the Jan Lokpal Bill to be passed by the Parliament and not the "watered down, toothless" Bill drafted by the government. The 6,000 participants at the referendum also said that being representatives of the people, members of parliament should vote for the Lokpal, not as per party directives but as per the voice of the majority in his/her constituency. The participants also voted to bring judges under Lokpal, give adequate powers to the Lokpal to dismiss officers guilty of corruption, monitor corruption at the central as well as state level through Lokayuktas and to bring all levels of officers under the Bill. The questionnaire had a set of eight questions that brought out crucial differences between the Jan Lokpal Bill and the Lokpal Bill put forth by the government and asked for the people's vote on the same. Around ten parliamentary constituencies across the nation conducted a similar exercise and the results from the nation-wide campaign will be consolidated and presented to the members of the Parliament in time for the monsoon session.[124][125]
[edit]Hazare's arrest
On the morning of August 16, 2011, Hazare, along with close associates, was remanded to judicial custody for seven days. Hazare revived his hunger protest for a strong Lokpal, even after the Delhi police detained him in the wee hours of August 16. Hazare was picked up by police at about 7.30am from a residence in east Delhi for "intending to defy prohibitory orders". Late afternoon, he was produced before a special executive magistrate. After he refused to sign a personal bond to be allowed to get out on bail he was remanded in judicial custody for seven days. Within hours of his detention, a spokesperson for Team Anna said that he had begun his hunger protest while in police custody and that he was not accepting even water to drink. The arrest of Hazare and some of his close associates, set off a groundswell of protests across the country and this appeared to be spreading quickly. The arrest was condemned by political parties, the chief ministers of some non-Congress ruled states, non-government organizations and even parliament did not transact any business after an uproar on the issue forced an adjournment for the day.[126]
As protests built up in several cities and towns over the arrest, Prashant Bhushan, one of Hazare's key associates, announced a march from India Gate to Parliament House on Wednesday to protest against the police action, which he described was taken at the behest of some cabinet ministers. Delhi police commissioner BK Gupta said that the police was not keen that Hazare be sent to judicial custody. He said police was prepared to release him on a personal bond if he would have given an undertaking that he would not defy Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code which prohibits the gathering of five or more people and ask his supporters not to do so also. Hazare was taken to the Tihar jail where he will spend the time in judicial custody. Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Manoj Sisodia, three other leading activists of team Anna, have also been sent to judicial custody on similar grounds. In a message released after his detention, Hazare said this was the beginning of the "second freedom struggle" and he called on people to participate in a "jail bharo" agitation.[127]
Opposition parties, peeved over the attitude of the Congress in parliament, said they would meet later today to decide on the course of action.Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta said he had proposed a boycott of parliament for three days. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat described the arrest as "a strong attack on democratic rights". Hours after arrest of Hazare, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj strongly condemned the action and demanded and explanation from Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh saying that the government is hell-bent on crushing the civil rights of the citizens.[128][129] Senior Bhartiya Janata Party leader L K Advani said he was not surprised at the detention of Mr Hazare and he charged the government with looking for scapegoats and stopping peaceful protests instead of fighting corruption. Arun Jaitley, leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said, that it was a very sad day for Indian democracy, where the ruling government took away the right to protest and the right to dissent.[130]
In Patna, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar described the detention of Hazare and his associates as a "rehearsal of emergency" which people will never tolerate, and "a murder of democracy." Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal also condemned the arrests saying that the Congress has panicked over the movement of Anna Hazare and accused Congress leaders of stashing money abroad. In Chandigarh and Ludhiana, people from all walks of life took to the streets - despite inclement weather - to join the protest for a strong Lokpal. Among them were activists of the NGOs 'India Against Corruption' and 'Awaaz' who launched a relay hunger strike. Traffic was also blocked at several intersections. Slamming the Centre for detaining Anna Hazare and his aides, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SK Modi today called upon the people to come to the streets to hold demonstration in support of Anna's movement against corruption "peacefully and democratically."[131]
In Hyderabad, Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu asked the Prime minister Manmohan Singh to apologize to the nation for having sent Hazare and other social activists, who are fighting against corruption, to Tihar jail. In Maharashtra, crowds gathered in many cities and towns in response to Mr Hazare's call to court arrest. Thousands poured into south Mumbai's Azad Maidan since early in the morning, in preparation for the 'Jail Bharo' programme. A large number of people courted arrest in support of the demand for an effective Lokpal. Many people wearing 'Gandhi' caps with slogans 'I am Anna' gathered at the Reserve Bank of India Square, on the busy Nagpur-Jabalpur national highway that runs through the Civil Lines area.[132][133]
In a broad day light murder at Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, an RTI activist and a strong supporter of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, Shehla Masood was shot dead around 11.30 am on August 16. An unidentified assailant shot her dead from point blank range while she was leaving in her car to attend a demonstration in support of Anna Hazare.[134]
In Delhi, in protest against the arrest of Anna Hazare and his close aides by the Delhi Police, the members of All India Students Associationshowed black flags and shouted anti-government slogan against Kapil Sibal, who was to address a seminar at Malvankar Hall in city.[135]
Anna on August 16 asked government employees across the country to go on mass leave to show solidarity with the movement. Union Home minister P. Chidambaram hoped they would not respond, describing the call as "completely wrong." Hazare's close associate and lawyerPrashant Bhushan urged government servants to join their cause and take a mass leave for a day and join the protests in their city.[136]
[edit]Release
After protests all over India, the UPA government forced a decision to release Hazare barely hours after he had been sent to Tihar Jail for seven days. Hazare had even refused food and water intake in Tihar jail, indicating he would carry on his fast in jail. Hazare and his aides including, Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal, were first taken to the Delhi Police Officer's Mess in North Delhi and were shifted to another after Hazare's supporters gathered in large numbers at Civil Lines. The Delhi Police sent a warrant to the Tihar Jail for the release of Hazare and his supporters withdrawing bail bond conditions, which Hazare had earlier refused to sign. Over 1,500 people who have been detained for taking part in protests demanding Hazare's release are also likely to be released at 9:30pm (IST). Congress sources said that the Government decided to release Hazare and his supporters after coming to the conclusion that keeping him in jail would create unnecessary law and order problem. The decision to release Hazare was taken after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday evening where Rahul disapproved of the arrest. Hazare supporters Kiran Bedi and Shanti Bhushan were released by the Delhi Police early on August 16. Hazare and Sisodia had been kept in Jail No. 4 of Tihar Jail where Congress MP and Commonwealth Games scam accused Suresh Kalmadi is also lodged. Kejriwal and others have been sent to Jail No. 1 where DMK leader and former telecom minister A Raja, who is accused of being involved in the 2G spectrum scam, lodged.[137][138] However on release, Anna Hazare refused to come out of Tihar jail until the government agrees for an unconditional permission to hold protests at JP Park.[139]
[edit]See also
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- List of alleged scams in India
- Corruption in India
- International asset recovery
- Jan Lokpal Bill
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Anna Hazare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAnna Hazare Born 15 June 1937
Bhingar, Bombay Province,British IndiaNationality Indian Other names Anna Hazare Known for Watershed development programmes
Right to Information movement
Anti-corruption movementReligion Hinduism Spouse unmarried Parents Laxmibai Hazare (Mother)
Baburao Hazare (Father)Awards Padma Shri
1990
Padma Bhushan
1992Website annahazare.org Kisan Baburao Hazare
pronunciation (help·info)(Marathi: किसन बाबुराव हजारे) (born 15 June 1937), popularly known as Anna Hazare (loose english tranlation 'Thousand Eggs)
Anna Hazare started a fast unto death on 5 April 2011 to exert pressure on the government of India to enact a strong anti-corruption act as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill, a law to establish a Lokpal (ombudsman) with the power to deal with corruption in public offices. The fast led to nationwide protests in support of Hazare. The fast ended on 9 April 2011, the day after all of Hazare's demands were agreed by the government of India. The government issued a gazette notification on the formation of a joint committee (of government and civil society representatives) to draft an effective Lokpal Bill.[2][3]
According to an Indian daily English newspaper Daily News and Analysis's annual list of top 50 most influential people for 2011, Anna Hazare is the most influential person in Mumbai.[4]
Early life
Kisan Hazare was born on 15 June 1937 in Bhingar, a small village near the city of Hinganghat, in Bombay Province (present-dayMaharashtra).[5] Kisan's father, Baburao Hazare, worked as an unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy. Kisan's grandfather was working for the army in Bhingar, when he was born. The grandfather died in 1945, but Baburao continued to stay at Bhingar. In 1952, Baburao resigned from his job and returned to his own village, Ralegan Siddhi. Kisan had six younger siblings and the family faced significant hardships. Kisan's childless aunt offered to look after him and his education, and took him to Mumbai. Kisan studied up to the seventh standard in Mumbai and then sought employment, due to the economic situation in his household. He started selling flowers at Dadar to support his family. He soon started his own shop and brought two of his brothers to Bombay.[6]
Military service
In 1962, events in South Asia meant that large-scale army recruitments were being undertaken. Despite not meeting the physical requirements, 25-year-old Hazare was selected, as emergency recruitment was taking place in the Indian Army.[7] After training at Aurangabad in Maharashtra he started his career in the Indian Army as a driver in 1963.[8] During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Hazare was posted at the border in the Khem Karan sector. On 12 November 1965, Pakistanlaunched air attacks on Indian bases, and all of Hazare's comrades were killed; he was the only survivor of that convoy. It was a close shave for Hazare as one bullet had passed by his head.[9] He was driving a truck.[6][10] This led him to dwell on the purpose and meaning of life and death. He came across a small booklet titled "Call to the youth for nation building" by Swami Vivekananda in a book stall at the New Delhi railway station.[11] He realized that saints sacrificed their own happiness for that of others, and that he needed to work towards ameliorating the sufferings of the poor. He started to spend his spare time reading the works of Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Vinoba Bhave.[12] During the mid-1970s, he again survived a road accident while driving.[13] It was at that particular moment that Hazare took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity, at the age of 38.[9] He took voluntary retirement from the army in 1978.[14]
Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi
In 1975 after a voluntary retirement from the Indian army, Hazare went to his native village Ralegan Siddhi, a village located in the acute drought-prone and rain-shadow zone of Parner Tehsil of Ahmadnagar district, in central Maharashtra. It was one of the many villages of India plagued by acute poverty, deprivation, a fragile ecosystem, neglect and hopelessness. Hazare made remarkable economic, social and community regeneration in Ralegan Siddhi. He reinforced the normative principles of human development – equity, efficiency, sustainability and people's participation and made Ralegan Siddhi an oasis of human-made regeneration in a human-made desert without any inputs of industrialisation and technology-oriented agriculture.[7][15]
Uprooting alcoholism
Anna Hazare recognised that without addressing the menace of alcoholism, no effective and sustainable reform was possible in the village. He organised the youth of the village into an organisation named the Tarun Mandal (Youth Association).[16] Hazare and the youth group decided to take up the issue of alcoholism. At a meeting conducted in the temple, the villagers resolved to close down liquor dens and ban alcohol in the village. Since these resolutions were made in the temple, they became in a sense religious commitments. Over thirty liquor brewing units were closed by their owners voluntarily. Those who did not succumb to social pressure were forced to close down their businesses when the youth group smashed up their liquor dens. The owners could not complain as their businesses were illegal.[17]
When some villagers were found to be drunk they were tied to poles/pillars of the temple and flogged, sometimes personally by Hazare. He justified this harsh punishment by stating in an interview to Reader's Digest in 1986 that "rural India was a harsh society". [18]
Hazare said, "Doesn't a mother administer bitter medicines to a sick child when she knows that the medicine can cure her child? The child may not like the medicine, but the mother does it only because she cares for the child. The alcoholics were punished so that their families would not be destroyed."[19]
Hazare appealed to the government of Maharashtra to bring in a law whereby prohibition would come into force in a village if 25% of the women in the village demanded it. In July 2009 the state government issued a government resolution amending the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. As per the amendments, if at least 25% of women voters demand liquor prohibition through a written application to the state excise department, voting should be conducted through a secret ballot. If 50% of the voters vote against the sale of liquor, prohibition should be imposed in the village and the sale of liquor should be stopped. Similar action can be taken at the ward level in municipal areas. Another circular was issued making it mandatory to get the sanction of the Gram sabha (the local self government) for issuing new permits for the sale of liquor. In some instances, when women agitated against the sale of liquor, cases were filed against them. Hazare took up the issue again. In August 2009 the government issued another circular that sought withdrawal of cases against women who sought prohibition of liquor in their villages.[20]
It was decided to ban the sale of tobacco, cigarettes, and beedies (an unfiltered cigarette where the tobacco is rolled in tendu{Diospyros_melanoxylon} leaves instead of paper) in the village. In order to implement this resolution, the youth group performed a unique "Holi" ceremony twenty two years ago.[when?] The festival of Holi is celebrated as a symbolic burning of evil. The youth group brought all the tobacco, cigarettes, and beedies from the shops in the village and burnt them in a 'Holi' fire. Tobacco, cigarettes, or beedies are no longer sold.[21][22]
Grain Bank
In 1980, the Grain Bank was started by him at the temple, with the objective of providing food security to needful farmers during times of drought or crop failure. Rich farmers, or those with surplus grain production, could donate a quintal to the bank. In times of need, farmers could borrow the grain, but they had to return the same amount of grain they borrowed, plus an additional quintal as an interest. This ensured that nobody in the village ever went hungry or had to borrow money to buy grain. This also prevented distress sales of grain at lower prices at harvest time.[7]
Watershed development programme
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images." It is not the water in the fields that brings true development, rather, it is water in the eyes, or compassion for fellow beings, that brings about real development. " —Anna Hazare[23]
Ralegan is located in the foothills, so Hazare persuaded villagers to construct a watershedembankment to stop water and allow it to percolate and increase the ground water level and improve irrigation in the area. Residents of the village used shramdan (voluntary labour) to build canals, small-scale check-dams, and percolation tanks in the nearby hills for watershed development. These efforts solved the problem of water scarcity in the village and made irrigation possible.[12][13] The first embankment that was built using volunteer efforts developed a leak and had to be reconstructed, this time with government funding.
In order to conserve soil and water by checking runoff, contour trenches and gully plugs were constructed along the hill slopes. Grass, shrubs and about 3 Lakh ( 300,000 ) trees were planted along the hillside and the village. This process was supplemented by afforestation, nullah bunds, underground check dams, and cemented bandharas (small diversion weirs) at strategic locations.[17] Ralegan has also experimented with drip and bi-valve irrigation. Papaya, lemon, and chillies have been planted on a plot of 80 acres (32 ha) entirely irrigated by the drip irrigation system. Cultivation of water-intensive crops like sugar cane was banned. Crops such as pulses, oil-seeds, and certain cash crops with low water requirements were grown. The farmers started growing high-yield varieties of crop and the cropping pattern of the village was changed. Hazare has helped farmers of more than 70 villages in drought-prone regions in the state of Maharashtra since 1975.[24] When Hazare came in Ralegan Siddhi in 1975 only 70 acres (28 ha) of land was irrigated, Hazare converted it into about 2,500 acres (1,000 ha).[17]
The Government of India plans to start a training centre in Ralegan Siddhi to understand and implement Hazare's watershed development model in other villages in the country.[25]
Milk production
As a secondary occupation, milk production was promoted in Ralegan Siddhi. Purchase of new cattle and improvement of the existing breed with the help of artificial insemination and timely guidance and assistance by a veterinarian resulted in an improvement in the cattle stock. Milk production has increased. Crossbreed cows are replacing local ones which gave a lower milk yield. The number of milk cattle has also been growing, which resulted in growth from 100 litres (before 1975) to around 2,500 litres per day. The milk is sent to a co-operative dairy (Malganga Dairy) in Ahmednagar. Some milk is given to Balwadi (kindergarten) children and neighbouring villages under the child nutrition program sponsored by the Zilla Parishad.[26]
From the surplus funds generated, the milk society bought a mini-truck and a thresher. The mini-truck is used to transport milk to Ahmednagar and to take vegetables and other produce directly to the market, thus eliminating intermediate agents. The thresher is rented out to farmers during the harvesting season.[7]
Education
In 1932, Ralegan Siddhi got its first formal school, a single classroom primary school. In 1962, the villagers added more classrooms through community volunteer efforts. By 1971, out of an estimated population of 1,209, only 30.43% were literate (72 women and 290 men). Boys moved to the nearby towns of Shirur and Parner to pursue higher education, but due to socioeconomic conditions, girls could not do the same and were limited to primary education. Hazare, along with the youth of Ralegan Siddhi, worked to increase literacy rates and education levels. In 1976 they started a pre-school and a high school in 1979. The villagers formed a charitable trust, the Sant Yadavbaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, which was registered in 1979.[27]
The trust obtained a government grant of
400,000 (US$8,920) for the school building using the National Rural Education Programme. This money funded a new school building that was built over the next two months using volunteer labour. A new hostel was constructed to house 200 students from poorer sections of society. After the opening of the school, a girl from Ralegan Siddhi became the first female in the village to complete her Secondary School Certificate in 1982.[28] Since then the school has been instrumental in bringing in many of changes to the village. Traditional farming practices are taught in this school in addition to the government curriculum.[13]
Removal of untouchability
The social barriers and discrimination that existed due to the caste system in India have been largely eliminated by Ralegan Siddhi villagers. It was Anna Hazares moral leadership that motivated and inspired the people of Ralegan Siddhi to shun untouchability and discrimination against the Dalits. People of all castes come together to celebrate social events. Marriages of dalits are held as part of community marriage program together with those of other castes. The Dalits have been integrated into the social and economic life of the village. The upper caste villagers have built houses for the lower caste Dalits by Shramdaan (voluntary work without payment), and helped to repay their loans to free them from their indebtedness.[29][30][27][31]
Collective marriages
Most rural poor get into a debt trap as they incur heavy expenses at the time of marriage of their daughter or son. It is an undesirable practice but has almost become a social obligation in India. Ralegan's people have started celebrating marriages collectively. Joint feasts are held, where the expenses are further reduced by the Tarun Mandal taking responsibility for cooking and serving the food. The vessels, the loudspeaker system, the mandap, and the decorations have also been bought by the Tarun Mandal members belonging to the oppressed castes. From 1976 to 1986, 424 marriages have been held under this system.[27]
Gram Sabha
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images.The Gandhian philosophy on rural development considers the Gram Sabha as an important democratic institution for collective decision making in the villages of India.[32] Hazare campaigned between 1998 and 2006 for amending the Gram Sabha Act, so that the villagers have a say in the development works in their village. The state government initially refused, but eventually gave in due to public pressure. As per the amendments, it is mandatory to seek the sanction of the Gram Sabha (an assembly of all village adults, and not just the few elected representatives in the gram panchayat) for expenditures on development works in the village. In case of expenditure without the sanction of the Gram Sabha, 20% of Gram Sabha members can lodge a complaint to the chief executive officer of the zilla parishad (the district-level governing body) with their signatures. The chief executive officer is required to visit the village and conduct an inquiry within 30 days and submit a report to the divisional commissioner, who has the power to remove the sarpanch or deputy sarpanch and dismiss the gram sevak involved. Hazare was not satisfied as the amended Act did not include the right to recall a sarpanch. He insisted that this should be included and the state government relented.[20]
" Anna is a shining example of creativity and service by an ex-Serviceman. " —Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (in 1991)[33]
In Ralegan Siddhi, Gram Sabha meetings are held periodically to discuss issues relating to the welfare of the village. Projects like watershed development activities are undertaken only after they are discussed in the Gram Sabha. All decisions like Nashabandi (bans on alcohol), Kurhadbandi (bans on tree felling), Charai bandi (bans on grazing), and Shramdanwere taken in the Gram Sabha. Decisions are taken in a simple majority consensus. The decision of the Gram Sabha is accepted as final.
In addition to the panchayat, there are several registered societies that take care of various projects and activities of the village. Each society presents an annual report and statement of accounts in the Gram Sabha. The Sant Yadavbaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal monitors the educational activities. The Vividh Karyakari Society gives assistance and provides guidance to farmers regarding fertilizers, seeds, organic farming, and financial assistance. The Sri Sant Yadavbaba Doodh Utpadhak Sahakari Sanstha gives guidance regarding the dairy business. Seven co-operative irrigation societies provide water to the farmers from cooperative wells. The Mahila Sarvage Utkarsh Mandal attends to the welfare needs of women.[32]
" The dream of India as a strong nation will not be realized without self-reliant, self-sufficient villages, this can be achieved only through social commitment and involvement of the common man. " —Anna Hazare[34]
Activism
Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra
In 1991 Hazare launched theBhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aandolan (BVJA) (People's Movement against Corruption), a popular movement to fight against corruption[35] in Ralegaon Siddhi. In the same year he protested against the collusion between 40 forest officials and timber merchants. This protest resulted in the transfer and suspension of these officials.[36]
In May 1997 Hazare protested against alleged malpractices in the purchase of powerlooms by the Vasantrao Naik Bhathya Vimukt Jhtra Governor P. C. Alexander.[37] On 4 November 1997 Gholap filed a defamation suit against Hazare for accusing him of corruption. He was arrested in April 1998 and was released on a personal bond of
In 2003 corruption charges were raised by Hazare against four NCP ministers of the Congress-NCP government.[44] He started his fast unto death on 9 August 2003. He ended his fast on 17 August 2003 after then chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde formed a one-man commission headed by the retired justice P. B. Sawant to probe his charges.[45] The P. B. Sawant commission report, submitted on 23 February 2005, indicted Sureshdada Jain, Nawab Malik, and Padmasinh Patil. The report exonerated Vijaykumar Gavit. Suresh Jain and Nawab Malik resigned from the cabinet in March 2005.[46]
Three trusts headed by Anna Hazare were also indicted in the P. B. Sawant commission report.
Right to Information movement
In the early 2000s Hazare led a movement in Maharashtra state which forced the state government to pass a stronger Maharashtra Right to Information Act. This Act was later considered as the base document for the Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI), enacted by the Union Government. It also ensured that the President of India assented to this new Act.[50] Law professor Alasdair Scott Roberts said:
The state of Maharashtra – home to one of the world's largest cities, Mumbai, adopted a Right to Information Act in 2003, prodded by the hunger strike of prominent activist, Anna Hazare. ("All corruption can end only if there is freedom of information," said Hazare, who resumed his strike in February 2004 to push for better enforcement of the Act).[51]
On 20 July 2006 the Union Cabinet amended the Right to Information Act 2005 to exclude the file noting by the government officials from its purview. Hazare began his fast unto death on 9 August 2006 in Alandi against the proposed amendment. He ended his fast on 19 August 2006, after the government agreed to change its earlier decision.[52]
Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act
Before 2006 in the state of Maharashtra, even honest government officers were transferred to other places according to ministers wish. Sometimes within months of being posted to a place, whereas some corrupt and favored officials were cozy in their postings for many years in some cases even for 10 to 20 years and since there was not any guideline or law many government officials were reluctant to process files that contained important public proposals and decisions. Anna fought hard for a law whereby a government servant must clear a file within a specified time and that transfers must take place only after three years. After many years of relentless efforts of Anna, finally on 25 May 2006 state government of Maharashtra issued a notification announcing that the execution of the special act, The Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act 2006, aimed at curbing the delay by its officers and employees in discharging their duties. This act provides for disciplinary action against officials who move files slowly and enables monitoring officials who stay too long in a post, or in a department, and for involvement in a corrupt nexus. Within this act, it is mandatory for the government to effect transfers of all government officers and employees, except Class IV workers, after the stipulated three years. Act also prevents the government from effecting frequent transfers of officers before the stipulated three-year tenure, except in case of emergency and under exceptional circumstances. Maharashtra is the first state in the country to have introduced such act.[20] However, like others, this law has also not been followed in its true spirit.[53][54]
Campaign against liquor from food grains
Constitution of India Article 47 commits the State to raise the standard of living and improve public health, and prohibit the consumption ofintoxicating drinks and drugs injurious to health.[55][56][57]
In 2007 Maharashtra Government rolled out the grain-based liquor policy aimed to encourage production of liquor from food grain in the light of the rising demand for spirit – used for industrial purposes and potable liquor and Issue 36 licenses for distilleries for making alcohol from food grains.[57]
Anna Hazare opposed the governments policy to promote making liquor from food grains in Maharashtra. He argued the government that Maharashtra is a food-deficit State and there was shortage of food grains and it is not logical to promote producing liquor from food grains.[58]One of the State ministers Laxman Dhoble said in his speech that those opposing the decision to allow use of food grains for the production of liquor are anti-farmers and those people should be beaten up with sugarcane sticks.[59][60] Hazare initiated fast at Shirdi, but on March 21, 2010 government promised to review the policy and Anna ended his 5 day long fast.[61] But the government later granted 36 licences and grants of of
On May 5, 2011 court refused to hear a Public Interest Litigation saying "not before me, this is a court of law, not a court of justice" as a reason of not hearing the plea.[65][66] One of Principal Secretary in Maharashtra state C.S. Sangeet Rao, enlighten that there is no law exists to scrap these licences as this is a government policy.[58]
Lokpal Bill movement
Main article: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movementIn 2011, Hazare initiated a Satyagraha movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament as conceived in the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill). The Jan Lokpal Bill was drafted earlier by N. Santosh Hegde, former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta ofKarnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court and Arvind Kejriwal, a social activist along with members of the India Against Corruptionmovement. This draft bill incorporated more stringent provisions and wider power to the Lokpal (Ombudsman) than the draft Lokpal bill prepared by the government in 2010.[67]
Hunger strike in Delhi
Hazare began his fast unto death on 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to press for the demand to form a joint committee of the representatives of the Government and the civil society to draft a stronger anti-corruption bill with stronger penal actions and more independence to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.[68] He stated, "I will fast until Jan Lokpal Bill is passed".[69]
The movement attracted attention in the media, and thousands of supporters. Almost 150 people reportedly joined Hazare in his fast.[70]Social activists, including Medha Patkar, Arvind Kejriwal, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, and Jayaprakash Narayan lent their support to Hazare's hunger strike and anti-corruption campaign. People have shown support in Internet social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Online Signature Campaigns like avaaz got 6.5lakh signatures in just 36 hours. In addition to spiritual leaders Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Ramdev, Swami Agnivesh and former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev, many celebrities showed their public support through Twitter.[71][72] Hazare decided that he would not allow any politician to sit with him in this movement. Politicians like Uma Bharti and Om Prakash Chautala were shooed away by the protesters when they came to visit the site where the protest was taking place.[73] On 6 April 2011 Sharad Pawarresigned from the group of ministers formed for reviewing the draft Lokpal bill 2010.[74]
Wikinews has related news:Indian activist begins "fast-unto-death" hunger strike to end corruption The movement gathered significant support from India's youth, visible through the local support and on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.[75] Protests spread to Bangalore,Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Shillong, Aizawl and a number of other cities in India.[76]
End of hunger strike after meeting demands
On 8 April 2011 the Government of India accepted all demands of the movement. On 9 April 2011 it issued a notification in the Gazette of India on formation of a joint committee. It accepted the formula that there be a politician Chairman and an activist, non-politician Co-Chairman. According to the notification, Pranab Mukherjee will be the Chairman of the draft committee while Shanti Bhushan will be the co-chairman. "The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of five nominee ministers of the Government of India and five nominees of the civil society. The five nominee Ministers of the Government of India are Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of Finance, P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs, M. Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Law and Justice, Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource and Development and Minister of Communication and Information Technology and Salman Khursheed, Union Minister of Water Resources and Minister of Minority Affairs. The five nominees of the civil society are Anna Hazare, N. Santosh Hegde, Shanti Bhushan Senior Advocate,Prashant Bhushan, Advocate and Arvind Kejriwal.[77][78]
On the morning of 9 April 2011 Hazare ended his 98-hour hunger strike by first offering lemon juice to some of his supporters who were fasting with him. Hazare then broke his fast by consuming some lemon juice. He addressed the people and set a deadline of 15 August 2011 to pass the Lokpal Bill in the Indian Parliament.
"Real fight begins now. We have a lot of struggle ahead of us in drafting the new legislation, We have shown the world in just five days that we are united for the cause of the nation. The youth power in this movement is a sign of hope."
Anna Hazare said that if the bill does not pass he will call for a mass nation-wide agitation.[79][80] He called his movement as "second struggle for independence" and he will continue the fight.[81]
Differences with the government on draft bill
During the meeting of the joint drafting committee on 30 May 2011, the Union government members opposed the inclusion of the prime minister, higher judiciary and the acts of the MPs under the purview of the Lokpal in the draft bill.[82] On 31 May 2011, Pranab Mukherjee, chairman of the joint drafting committee sent a letter to the chief ministers of all states and the leaders of the political parties seeking their opinion on six contentious issues in the proposed Lokpal Bill, including whether to bring the prime minister and judges of Supreme Court and High Courts under the purview of the proposed law.[83] But the civil society members of the drafting committee considered that keeping the prime minister and judges of Supreme Court and High Courts out of the purview of the Lokpal would be a violation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.[84]
Anna Hazare and other civil society members decided to boycott the meeting of the joint Lokpal Bill drafting committee scheduled on 6 June 2011 in protest against the forcible eviction of Swami Ramdev and his followers by the Delhi Police from Ramlila Maidan on 5 June 2011, while they were on hunger strike against the issues of black money and corruption and doubting seriousness of the government in taking measures to eradicate corruption.[85]
On 6 June 2011, the members of the civil society of the joint Lokpal bill drafting committee in New Delhi sent a letter to Pranab Mukherjee, the chairman of the committee, explaining reasons for their absence at the meeting and also asked government to make its stand public on the contentious issues related to the proposed draft legislation. They also decided that the future meetings will be attended only if they were telecast live.[86] On 8 June 2011 at Rajghat, describing his movement as the second freedom struggle, Anna criticized the Government for trying to discredit the joint Lokpal Bill drafting committee and threatened to go on indefinite fast again from 16 August 2011 if the Lokpal Bill is not passed by then. He also criticised the Government for putting hurdles in the drafting of a strong Lokpal Bill and its attempts to malign the civil society members of the joint Lokpal panel.[87][88][89]
Indefinite fast
" We are ready to get arrested and be beaten up but we have had enough of corruption. We are ready to sacrifice our lives " —Anna Hazare[90]
On July 28, 2011 the union cabinet on approved a draft of the Lokpal Bill, which keeps the Prime Minister, judiciary and lower bureaucracy out of the ambit of the proposed corruption ombudsman Lokpal.Hazare rejected the government version by describing it as "cruel joke'' and wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and told him his decision to go on an indefinite fast from August 16, 2011 at Jantar Mantar if the government introduced its own version of the bill in Parliament without taking suggestions from civil society members.[91][92]
Why are you (government) sending the wrong draft? We have faith in Parliament. But first send the right draft, our agitation is against government, not Parliament. The government has overlooked many points. How will it fight corruption by excluding government employees, CBI and prime minister from the Lokpal's purview? We were told that both the drafts would be sent to the Cabinet. But only the government's draft was sent. This is a deceitful government. They are lying. How will they run the country? Now I have no trust in this government. If it is really serious about fighting corruption, why is it not bringing government employees and CBI under Lokpal?- Anna Hazare
Within twenty four hours of cabinet's endorsement of a weak Lokpal Bill, over ten thousand peoples from across the country sent faxes directly to the government demanding a bill with stronger provisions.[93] The Mumbai Taxi Men's Union, comprises over 30,000 taxi drivers have extended their full support to Hazare's fast by keeping all taxis off the roads on August 16, 2011.[94] Lawyers of Allahabad High Courtdescribed Lokpal Bill proposed by the government as against the interest of the country and pledged their support to Hazare by hunger strike at Allahabad on August 16, 2011.[95] On July 30, 2011 Vishwa Hindu Parishad supported Hazare's indefinite fast by saying movement for an effective anti-corruption ombudsman needs the backing of people.[96]
On August 1, Public interest litigation was filled in the Supreme Court of India by Hemant Patil, a Maharashtra-based social worker and businessman, to restrain Hazare from going on his proposed indefinite fast. The petitioner demanded to prohibit the fast alleging that Hazare's demands are unconstitutional and amount to interference in legislative process.[97]
August 16 fast and aftermath
On August 16 2011, Hazare was arrested four hours before the planned indefinite hunger strike.[98] Rajan Bhagat, spokesman for Delhi Police, said police arrested Hazare under a legal provision that bans public gatherings and protests at the park in Delhi where he was planning to begin his hunger strike. Police took that action after Hazare refused to meet the conditions put forward by police for allowing the protest.[99] The conditions included restricting the length of the fast to three days and the number of protesters at the site to 5,000. Later Anna was sent to Tihar jail under judicial custody for 7 days.[100]
Along with Hazare, other key members of the India Against Corruption movement including Arvind Kejriwal, Shanti Bhushan, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia were also detained from different locations. It was reported that about 1,300 supporters were detained in Delhi.[101] Media also reported that the arrest sparked off protests with people courting arrests in different parts of the country. The opposition parties in the country came out against the arrest, likening the government action to the emergency imposed in the country in 1975. Both the houses of Parliament were adjourned over the issue. [102]
Eventually, after keeping in judicial detention for 24 hours, he was released by police, but Hazare and his supporters refused to sign bail bond and he was sent to Tihar Jail.[103] They demanded permission to observe fast in support of janlokpal bill,without any condition.[104] Hazare continued his fast inside jail.[105]
After his arrest, Anna Hazare received massive support from people across the country. Peaceful protest rallies and marches were held all over country against government's move of arresting Hazare and others.[106]
Electoral reform movement
In 2011, Anna Hazare demanded for an amendment to the electoral law to incorporate the option of None of the above in the electronic voting machines during the Indian elections.[107][108] The "None of the above (NOTA)" is a ballot option that allows an electorate to indicate disapproval of all of the candidates in an electoral system, in case of non-availability of any candidate of his choice, as his Right to Reject. Soon, the Chief Election Commissioner of India Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi supported Hazare's demand for the electoral reforms. [109]
Protest against atrocities against Swami Ramdev and his supporters
" How can the government stop anyone from protesting? The land is not their 'father's property'. The citizens are the masters of this country and the ministers are their servants". " —Anna Hazare [86]
On 8 June 2011, Anna Hazare and thousands of his supporters observed fast from 10 am to 6 pm at Rajghat to protest against the midnight crackdown of 5 June 2011 by the Delhi Police on Swami Ramdev's fast at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi. The fast was initially planned to be held at Jantar Mantar, but the venue was shifted after the denial of permission by the Delhi police.[110][87] Anna Hazare held the Prime Minister of India responsible for the atrocities[111] and termed the police action as a blot on humanity and an attempt to stifle democracy.[87] According to one of the Anna's young supporters, the large presence of youths in the protest was due to their support to his use of nonviolence means of protest similar to Gandhi.[112]
Controversies and Criticism
Views on Narendra Modi
In a press conference in April 2011, Anna Hazare praised Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat for his efforts on rural development along with Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar, saying that the same should be emulated by the chief ministers of all states.[113]Subsequently, Modi wrote an open letter to him, hailing him as a Gandhian and anti-corruption activist[114] while Digvijay Singh, the General Secretary of the Congress party, criticised him for his comment.[115] In May 2011, Hazare, during his visit to Gujarat, changed his view and criticised Modi for rampant corruption. He urged Modi to appoint a Lokayukta in Gujarat. He also commented that the media had projected an incorrect image of Vibrant Gujarat, very different from the prevalent situation.[116]
Accusations of corruption
The government of the state of Maharashtra instituted a Commission of Inquiry under Justice PB Sawant in September 2003 to inquire into allegations of corruption against several people, including four ministers in the state as well as the "Hind Swaraj Trust" headed by Hazare. The Commission submitted its report on February 22, 2005 in which it indicted the Hind Swaraj Trust for corrupt practice of spending Rs. 2.20 lakhs of its funds on the birthday celebrations of Hazare. [117] Two days ahead of Hazare's proposed indefinite fast on August 16,2011, the ruling party of India, the Indian National Congress, launched an attack on him alleging that "the moral core of Hazare has been ripped apart" by the Justice P B Sawant Commission. [118]
In response to this allegaton, Hazare's lawyer Milind Pawar, claimed that the commission had remarked about "irregularities" in the accounts, but had not held him guilty of any "corrupt" practices. Pawar said that on June 16, 1998, a celebration was organized to facilitate Hazare on winning an award from a US based NGO and it coincided with his 61st birthday. The trust spent Rs 2.18 lakh for the function. Abhay Phirodia, a Pune-based industrialist, who took the initiative to organise this function donated an amount of Rs 2,48,950 to the trust by cheque soon after the function. [119]
Hazare himself responded to the allegation by daring the government to file an FIR against him to prove the charges.[120]
Conspiracy for murder
Anna Hazare has exposed large corruption in co-operative sugar factories of Maharashtra. One of the sugar factories which Anna exposed corruption is controlled by Padamsinh Bajirao Patil, a member of Parliament of 15th Lok Sabha and higher-ranking Leader of Nationalist Congress Party from Osmanabad, and also a prime accused and conspirator in the 2006 murder case of Indian National Congress leader Pawanraje Nimabalkar.[121][122]
The conspiracy to kill Hazare was exposed when Parasmal Jain, an accused in the Nimbalkar murder case, in his written confession before a magistrate said that Padamsinh Bajirao Patil had paid a sum of
Padmasinh Patil appealed for an anticipatory bail in Supreme Court of India which the court rejected on November 06, 2009.[128] On November 11, 2009 Padmasinh Patil surrendered before the sessions court in Latur as per a directive of the Supreme Court and was sent to judicial remand for 14 days.[129] On December 16, 2009 Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court granted bail to him.[130] As of August 16, 2011 the verdict is pending.
Honours, Awards and International Recognition
Year of Award or Honor Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award World Bank 2005 Honorary Doctorate Gandhigram Rural University 2003 Integrity Award Transparency International 1998 CARE International Award CARE (relief agency) 1997 Mahaveer Award 1996 Shiromani Award 1992 Padma Bhushan President of India 1990 Padma Shri President of India 1989 Krishi Bhushana Award Government of Maharashtra 1986 Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award Government of India Personal life
Anna Hazare is unmarried. He lives in a small room attached to the Sant Yadavbaba temple in Ralegan Siddhi since 1975. He never visited his home though it is in same village. On April 16, 2011, he declared his bank balance of
Writings
- Hazare, Anna; Ganesh Pangare, Vasudha Lokur (1996). Adarsh Gaon Yojana: government participitation in a peoples program : ideal village project of the Government of Maharashtra. Hind Swaraj Trust. p. 95.
- Hazare, Anna (in English). My Village – My Sacred Land. New Delhi: CAPART.
- Hazare, Anna (1997). Ralegaon Siddhi: a veritable transformation. Translated by B.S. Pendse. Ralegan Siddhi Pariwar Prakashan,. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- Hazare, Anna (2007) (in Marathi). वाट ही संघर्षाची. Pune: Signet Publications.
- (in English) ANNA HAZARE: The Face of Indias Fight Against Corruption. Pentagon Press. 2011. p. 124. ISBN 9788182745452. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
- Anna Hazare Arrested & Sent To Tihar Jail For 7 Days
See also
- Jan Lokpal Bill
- India Against Corruption
- 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
- "None of the above" voting option in India
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NEW DELHI: The rhetorical war between the government and Team Anna degenerated on Sunday into name calling with the Congress tarring Anna Hazare with the "corrupt'' brush. "Anna himself is involved in several cases of corruption.
This has been proved by the apex court-appointed Justice Sawant Commission. The commission found that Anna runs several NGOs and money was spent illegally for his birthday celebration," Congress spokesman Manish Tewari alleged. Meanwhile asserting that the fight for the Jan Lokpal Bill will continue, Hazare dared the government to prove allegations against him.
"Government has already accused all the members of the Lokpal Committee, I was the only one left. All charges against me are baseless. If they can, let they prove them I can corrupt," Hazare said. "There is no charge of corruption in the report Congress quoted," he added.
The Congress spokesman also questioned the credentials of those seeking stern action against corruption, and a different Lokpal bill. He alleged that Team Anna consists of "armchair fascists, overground Maoists, closet anarchists ... lurking behind forces of right reaction and funded by invisible donors whose links may go back a long way abroad.'' Tewari's attack also turned inelegant when he called the group around the Gandhian "A-Company and not Team Anna.''
"The fast from August 16 has nothing to do with either the issue of corruption or the Lokpal bill," Tewari said, claiming that the "moral core" of Hazare has been "ripped apart" by the Justice Sawant Commission.
The commission had probed corruption charges levelled by Hazare in 2003 against four ministers in the then Maharashtra government. "The fast from August 16 has nothing to do with either the issue of corruption or the Lokpal bill. If that was the case Hazare would have first clarified the grave charges. What is his clarification about the serious findings ... The nation wants to know," Tewari said, adding, "I think Hazare and his associates will need to answer conclusions of Sawant Commission ."
But Justice (Retd) Sawant, who had authored the report, had earlier this year himself extended his backing to Anna's anti-graft campaign. "What I probed was certainly a case of corruption. But Hazare accepted that it was a mistake, so he can certainly go ahead with the agitation,'' he had said in April.
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Hinting that the government would not allow social activist Anna Hazare to continue his fast indefinitely, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said no one was allowed to commit suicide as per the Indian law.
Mukherjee also termed as unconstitutional Hazare's demand for a strong anti-graft law.
"We need to keep in mind that in indefinite hunger strike, the legal connotation of which I do not know, nobody in our society as per our law is allowed to commit suicide," Mukherjee told reporters at his residence here.
He said it was the responsibility of the administration to look into these aspects.
Mukherjee's comments came less than two days before Hazare is scheduled to start a fresh round of an indefinite hunger strike at the Jayaprakash Narayan Park in New Delhi, close to the 14th century ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla.
The Delhi Police have given the social activist permission to fast but restricted it to three days, besides limiting the congregation at the park to 5,000.
An angry Hazare then shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention into the matter. In a stern response, the prime minister told Hazare that he should approach the Delhi Police as certain powers were vested in certain agencies, which acted accordingly.
Mukherjee said a venue has been given to Hazare, which he may or may not like.
"The fact of the matter is there are certain places where we normally do not allow people to come and communicate, for instance a large chunk of an area around West Bengal assembly, Writers' Buildings (the state secretariat) or Calcutta High Court where perpetually there is section 144 (prohibiting assembly of people or staging of demonstrations)".
"If he (Hazare) has any complaint against it, he should make a complaint," Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee noted that the much larger issue was that of the competent authority to make laws.
"So far as the constitution is concerned, it (the right to draft laws) is not given to any individual. So far as list one, laws made under the constitution, parliament and parliament alone is the competent authority to make laws. So far the list two and concurrent list, it is the state assemblies who have to make laws," he said.
"Nobody can compel that you will have to draft a law as per my desire. It is for parliament to decide. What Mr. Anna Hazare is doing is challenging the constitution's authority, which is not acceptable," Mukherjee said.
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The government is considering further amendments in Consumer Protection Act, 1986 to make it more vibrant and effective, Thomas said after inaugurating newly constructed building of Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission here.
The minister said a dynamic society requires constant updating of existing laws to meet the welfare and development needs of the people.
To ensure speedy disposal of the cases at consumer dispute redressal fora, Thomas said the government has undertaken an e-governance initiative. He emphasised on the need for an aggressive consumer awareness programmes.
Jan Lokpal Bill: Hazare's path dangerous for Parliamentary democracy: PM
: With Anna Hazare's arrest creating a storm, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament that the civil activist was trying to "impose" his version of Lokpal Bill and his "totally misconceived" path was fraught with "dangerous consequences" for Parliamentary democracy.
Amid an Opposition onslaught over handling of Hazare issue, Singh defended the arrest of the activist and his six associates, saying it was undertaken because of apprehension of breach of peace although the government acknowledges the right of citizens to hold peaceful protests, permission for which can be given with "appropriate conditions".
Bowing to demands for a statement, Singh performed the "painful duty" of reporting to Parliament on events related to Hazare's arrest but his contention was rejected with Opposition members accusing the government of being "arrogant" and "intolerant" and equating its "repressive" action with Emergency and British rule.
Making identical statements in both Houses, he said the government does not seek any "confrontation" with any section of the society but it has the "bounden duty" to maintain peace and tranquility" when some sections "deliberately challenge the authority of government and prerogative of Parliament."
Amid repeated jeers and chants of 'shame shame', he said, "Hazare may be inspired by high ideals in his campaign to set up a strong and effective Lokpal. However, the path that he has chosen to impose his draft of a bill upon Parliament is totally misconceived and fraught with grave consequences for our Parliamentary democracy."
Replying to a debate that followed Singh's statement in Lok Sabha, Home Minister P Chidambaram insisted that the government had done no wrong in dealing with Hazare and made it clear that his version of Lokpal Bill was unacceptable.
Jan Lokpal Bill: BJP to launch nationwide stir against UPA's 'high-handedness'
BANGALORE: BJP today decided to launch a nationwide 'Bhrastachar Mitao, Loktantra Bachao' agitation against what it called UPA government's "high-handedness" to arrest Anna Hazare and "stifle" peaceful movement against corruption.
BJP units in each district will organise sit-in and conch-blowing protests and silent rallies at public places or near Mahatma Gandhi statue to expose UPA government's "fascist tendencies," BJP National General Secretary Anant Kumar said in a statement here.
Lambasting UPA, Kumar said since the Centre was trying to "create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation reminiscent of Emergency days," the party has decided to mobilise people against such "dictatorial" behaviour.
BJP would not remain a mute spectator to the "strong-arm" tactics of Government in crushing peaceful and democratic agitations against the "monumental scandals" of UPA regime, he said.
Meanwhile, flaying the arrest of Hazare,Pejavar mutt pontiff Sri Vishvesha Tirtha Swami suggested that the anti-corruption crusader consider embarking on a fast for a week "to change the conscience of Parliamentarians who do not enjoy freedom of expression as they are bound by their party's whip."
Hazare's fast may change Parliamentarians conscience and they may vote in favour of the bill proposed by civil society. He also suggested holding of referendum in case Parliament accepted the Lokpal Bill proposed by government.
India against corruption: Team Anna urges government employees to go on mass leave
Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Tihar jail after Hazare and his associates were taken inside the prison.
Shortly after Hazare's arrest, his campaigner Prashant Bhushan announced a series of agitational programmes, including a march from India Gate to Parliament on Wednesday evening and protest by supporters in Delhi streets.
He also called upon government employees to go on mass leave from Wednesday to show solidarity with Hazare.
Lokpal Bill
The Lokpal Bill has been presented 'eight times' in the parliament but never been passed. It was far from public conciousness, not many knew what it was about, until, Anna Hazare took up the cause. Will the monsoon session see any progress? Only time will tell.
17 August 2011 Last updated at 23:53 GMT
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As Parliament was disrupted by opposition parties which attacked government saying Hazare's arrest amounted to "murder of democracy" and was a throw-back to the days of emergency, home minister P Chidambaram rejected the charge asserting that anyone saying he would defy prohibitory orders was unacceptable in a democracy.
Chidambaram said Hazare was arrested under Sections 107 and 151 of the CrPC because Delhi Police felt that he could commit a cognizable offence.
He said Lokpal was not a panacea for all the corruption taht existed in the country and government was taking a five- pronged action even after which corruption would still exist. It is a battle that would be fought on various fronts and no one can dictate that either "my bill or no bill".
Noting that Delhi Police was ready to release Hazare on a personal bond if he would have given an undertaking that he will not defy prohibitory orders, Gupta said the Gandhian refused to do so.
UPA government nervous: BJP
In the wake of Anna Hazare's arrest, BJP today said a "nervous" UPA government was adopting an "undemocratic attitude" by laying down unreasonable conditions on peaceful protestors and misusing the police to serve its ends.
"The government has been adopting an undemocratic attitude outside Parliament till now. Today this was seen inside the Parliament as well... This government has lost its balance and this is becoming obvious time and again," Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj told reporters.
She was referring to Congress members in both Houses not allowing the respective Leader of Opposition to speak on Hazare's arrest despite the Chair asking them to do so.
She claimed that the government had acted in an undemocratic manner when Baba Ramdev was holding his protest as also in the case of Anna Hazare.
"This government allows separatists to come and air their views in the capital but whenever a saffron clad saint or a Gandhi-cap activist holds an agitation they don't allow it," Swaraj said.
She insisted that Hazare's arrest was "unjustified" and demanded his immediate release.
"Anna had not even reached Jaiprakash Narayan park when he was arrested. Section 144 was not imposed at his residence.... The Home Minister says he does not know where Anna has been kept. This government is nervous. It is not being run by the Prime Minister or the Home Minister. Police are running this government," Swaraj said.
17/08/2011
Congress slams opposition parties for supporting Hazare
New Delhi: The Congress party has slammed the opposition for extending support to social activist Anna Hazare's crusade over the Lokpal Bill, even after it being tabled in Parliament.
Talking to reporters here, Congress party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said political parties are exploiting the movement for their own benefit.
"Today, though it may seem temporarily expedient or politically advantageous for you (political parties), we ask you to consider the repercussions on democracy and the political process itself," said Singhvi.
He said that their (the Opposition) support to Hazare over the bill, which is now a property of the Parliament, is the ignorance of history and a humungous ignorance of the Constitutional process and law of the country.
Justifying the Delhi Police's act of arresting Hazare and his associates, Singhvi said: "If Delhi Police, of course in its wisdom, has imposed certain reasonable restrictions nobody is suggesting that I, you, Delhi Police or civil society is infallible; they are very wrong if anybody is aggrieved by any lack of reasonableness in any restriction, what is the only method known, it is to go to the only dispute redressal mechanism namely the courts."
He asserted that the Standing Committee of the Parliament which has also heard Hazare over his issues in its current form and it would be an insult to further press on the bill over only one adaptation.
"To insist that only one version of the bill is good for the country, will be a negation of parliamentary process, it will be a rejection of the rule of law. It will be a nullification of the Indian constitution and it will be an insult to all political parties, indeed an insult to the political process itself," he said.
He also stressed by saying that Congress is the only party to take maximum steps in order to curb graft and it is determined to deal with scourge effectively.
Source: ANI
02/08/2011
Top cop embraces Gandhism in jail
Gandhinagar: A former top cop of Gujarat Police who allegedly ordered a couple to a violent end now gets set to undertake a course in the peaceful pursuit of Gandhian studies.
DIG Vanzara accused of killing Sohrabuddin and his wife in an 'encounter'.
Suspended deputy inspector general of police (DIG) D.G. Vanzara, who sent an assorted range of criminals into the incarcerating confines of the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad, today bides time in the same prison arraigned for the 2005 staged shoot-out killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi. Other staged shoot-outs under investigation await him in the wings. Meanwhile, the man has decided to pursue a course in Gandhian studies.
Vanzara is in prison along with fellow officers and men accused of ordering the killing of Sheikh and numerous others after making them out to be terrorists out to kill high-profile political targets in Gujarat. He has already done a Post-Graduate Diploma in Value Education and Spirituality offered by Annamalai University and sponsored by Brahmakumaris, says Additional Director General of Police, P.C. Thakur, who is now head of jails in the state.
Thakur said Monday that he has taken up a major overhaul of the 24 incarceration facilities in the state. "As part of it we are encouraging both prisoners and undertrials to pursue a wide variety of courses and studies and the response has been very enthusiastic," he said.
Vanzara is not a lone ranger. He has many co-travellers - of chequered criminal colouration - on board the knowledge bus. There is terror tout Safdar Nagori who graduated through the 2008 serial blasts in Ahmedabad and now chases a post-graduate diploma in value education which his partner in similar putrid pursuits, Mirza Beig, has already completed.
Beig, who triggered a crisis of sorts through the chain blasts, is now taking up an MBA in Crisis Management. Atul Patel, behind bars for the infamous Patan gangrape case, has also chosen to master in Value Education and Spirituality.
"The post-graduate diploma in Value Education and Spirituality is sponsored by the Brahmakumaris," said Thakur, adding that the enthusiastic response is making them turn it into a full-fledged post-graduate degree course from this year.
Thakur said many universities, including IGNOU, BabaSaheb Ambedkar University, Annamalai University and Saurashtra University, are now opening study centres in district jails and we are offering myriad courses.
"We have made book reading mandatory and now have 60,000 books. We will be coming out with a book compilation of the writings of the inmates, published with the help of the Gujarat Sahitya Parishad.
"Vanzara's contribution is two poems in the book," said the jail chief.
Source: IANS
10/07/2011
Capital is not evil, thus spake the Mahatma
Here are some famous quotes of Gandhiji on various issues
Gandhi on corruption
1. Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
2.I can retain neither respect nor affection for a government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.
3.Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
4.All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
5.There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
6.You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi on public affairs/ public life
1.Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
2.Be the change you want to see in this world.
3.A Government that is evil has no room for good men and women except in its prisons.
4.Everything is done openly and aboveboard, for truth hates secrecy.
5.Good government is no substitute for self-government.
6.I believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill.
7.Rights that do not flow directly from duty well performed are not worth having.
8.The best politics is right action.
9.We may attack measures and systems. We may not, we must not, attack people. Imperfect ourselves, we must be tender toward others and slow to impute their motives.
10. A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
11.For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
12.I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
13.Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Gandhi on honesty/integrity
1.Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
2.Freedom won through bloodshed or fraud is no freedom.
3.In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
4.If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
5.It is a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
6.No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
7.Truth never damages a cause that is just.
8.Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Gandhi on lifestyle
1. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
2.As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
3.It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
4.It is sinful to buy and use articles made by sweated labor.
5.Recall the face of the poorest and the most helpless man whom you may have seen and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he be able to gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny?
6.Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong but of the weak.
7.An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
8.Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
9.I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
10.The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Gandhi on violence
1. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
2.What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"[4]
3.Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
4.An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
5.There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.
6.A nonviolent resister cannot wait or delay action till perfect conditions are forthcoming.
7.A nonviolent revolution is not a program for the seizure of power. It is a program for the transformation of relationships ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
8.By our actions we mean to show that physical force is nothing compared (to) moral force.
9.Evil can only be sustained by violence.
10.Exploitation is the essence of violence.
11.Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
12.Peace has its victories more glorious than those of war.
13.Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
14.First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
15.I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
16.Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Gandhi on fasts
1.Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
2.Fasting for light and penance is a hoary institution.
3.A pure fast, like duty, is its own reward.
4.Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble.
5.A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
6.A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
7.Fasts could not be undertaken out of anger. Anger was a short madness.
8.All fasting and all penance must as far as possible be secret.
9.What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.
10.A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
11.When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
12.My fast is among other things meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
13.My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one can not remove, one must fast and pray.
14.My austerities, fastings and prayers are, I know of no value, if I rely upon them for reforming me.
Gandhi on India
1.A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
2. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
3.Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
4.Everything in India attracts me. It has everything that a human being with the highest possible aspirations can want.
5.India occupies a very great position in the world. She can become still greater. But she can only do so through non-violence.
6.We are all members of the vast human family. I decline to draw any distinctions. I cannot claim any superiority for Indians. We have the same virtues and the same vices.
Gandhi on the West
1.I think it would be a good idea. (when asked for his opinion of Western civilization)
2.In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things to go on. (written in September 1939 at the start of World War II)
3.Western democracy as it functions today, is diluted nazism or fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the nazi and fascist tendencies of imperialism.
4.I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
5.I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Gandhi on religion
1.After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that [1] all religions are true; [2] all religions have some error in them; [3] all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
2.As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side".
3.The sayings of Muhammad are a treasure of wisdom, not only for Muslims but for all of mankind".
4.Yes I am (a Hindu). I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew.
5.All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect.
6.Religions are different roads converging on the same point.
7.Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Gandhi on the media
1.I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
2.Journalism has become the art of "intelligent" anticipation of events.
3.The sole aim of journalism should be service.
4.Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
5.Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
6.A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
7.The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
8. The newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
9.Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
10.The liberty of the press is a dear privilege, apart from the advisability or otherwise of civil disobedience.
11.The newspapers had become more important to the average man than the scriptures.
Gandhi on Gandhism/Gandhigiri
1. There is no such thing as "Gandhism," and I do not want to leave any sect after me. I do not claim to have originated any new principle or doctrine. I have simply tried in my own way to apply the eternal truths to our daily life and problems...The opinions I have formed and the conclusions I have arrived at are not final. I may change them tomorrow. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.
2. If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
3. What is Gandhism but winning Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence?
4. There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
5. If our ahimsa is not of the brave, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
6. They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
7. I hold my message to be far superior to myself and far superior to the vehicle though which it is expressed.
8. Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
9. There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
10. Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
11. Was it that you wanted do pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
Gandhi on the inner voice
1. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
2. I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
3. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
4. There is a power now slumbering within us, which if awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
5. When we disobey a law, it is not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
6. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
7. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
8. Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
9. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Gandhi on love
1. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
2. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
3. When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
4. Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
5. Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
6. My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, that if need be the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
Gandhi on humour
1. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Source: India Syndicate
Govt works hard to free Anna Hazare
Published: Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011, 21:59 IST | Updated: Thursday, Aug 18, 2011, 0:12 IST
By Manan Kumar, Mayank Aggarwal & Pradip R Sagar | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA
he stalemate between the UPA government and Team Anna continued even 24 hours after Anna Hazare and his colleagues were formally "released" from Tihar Jail. But the "release" remained on paper as Anna refused to walk out unless the government accepted his demands unconditionally.
"We will only begin negotiating with the government after we get permission for Anna to continue his fast without any conditions," lawyer Prashant Bhushan told DNA.
Even as the government set up a team of five officers from the Intelligence Bureau to keep a close eye on Hazare's movements, negotiations between the two sides continued late into the night, with everything hinging on the duration of the fast.
Team Anna wanted Delhi's Ramlila grounds for 30 days, but the government wanted to keep it down to seven days with a possible extension of an additional week. The government was also firm that the electronic media would not be allowed to cover the agitation live.
And as the day progressed, crowds continued to swell across the national capital. Thousands were camped outside Tihar jail overnight while huge crowds congregated at India Gate and Chhatrasal Stadium. Earlier on Wednesday, director general (prisons) Neeraj Kumar told DNA that as Anna refused to move out of the jail he had been accommodated in the jail's compound.
Inside Parliament, a furious debate between the government and the opposition raged with prime minister Manmohan Singh standing up to make a statement on Anna's arrest that was immediately dismissed as "weak and ineffective", designed to "protect the corrupt".
Earlier, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who played a major role in the negotiations, told DNA that "Annaji has met the senior leadership of the Delhi police and the negotiations are on on the number of days the fast can go on."
But the decision to arrest Anna and then take him to Tihar seems to have been the biggest strategic blunder that the UPA's political managers committed. In a battle of perceptions, while the UPA was hell-bent on denying Anna space for the fast, they ended up giving him Tihar jail as a venue on a platter.
With Anna "in jail" the anger among his supporters spread quickly to other states.
"We made huge mistakes," a senior Congress leader told DNA. "Had we allowed the protests, we would have probably tired them out without granting an inch. The protesters would have left after the initial enthusiasm. But with him in jail, the sympathy factor just galvanised the masses."
This "blunder", political and senior home ministry bureaucrats told DNA, was clearly an error of judgment by Union home minister P Chidambaram. There were three major mistakes that Chidambaram seems to have committed, they argued. His refusal to heed police commissioner BK Gupta's pleas to avoid arresting Anna was the first mistake.
"There was a general consensus among the bureaucracy on this. The idea was to allow Anna to fast while the government hammered out an amicable solution," a senior official told DNA.
The second mistake was the timing of Anna's arrest. "It is a standard practice to arrest someone in the early hours and then extern him out of Delhi. But the government dithered and lost precious time and then failed to send him to Pune, as decided."
The third mistake was to send Anna to seven days judicial custody that brought the crowds running to Tihar jail. People like Arvind Dhillon, (name changed), who is posted in Delhi with the Indian Air Force took leave to join the protests. "I took an off along with a friend from the Indian Navy," Dhillon told DNA.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_govt-works-hard-to-free-anna-hazare_1576975 - Bharat Mukti Morcha is STOPPED to Hold Massive Mulnivasi National Rally in Ramlila Ground as ANNA Hazaare has HIJACJKED the Ramlila Ground with surgical Precision. No Mass Movement is Possible to defend the Persecuted Indigenous Aborigine Rural Agrarian Indians, the Eighty Percent Majority. The Anti Corruption Movement is reminiscent of Ram Janma Bhumi Movement which Aborted Mandal Commission Reprt Implementation and toppled VP Singh Government! Curent Hazaare led Movement also ABORTS CASTE Census!It is, in Fact ,Anti RESERVATION Movement Reincranated, Relaunched with Brand Equity of Amti CORRUPTION!Mind you, Bharat Mukti Morcha has Launched a Nationwide Campaign for Massive Rally in Ramlila Maidan on 1st September to press the demand for OBC headcount! It is Nothing about Civil or Human Rights as it Never did Oppose UID or Citizenship Amendment Act or AFPSA!Gandhian Anna Hazaare has become the Best Ever Master of Diversion and Mind Control after Gandhi, the Master Mind of Zionist Brahaminical Rule in India, the Architect of Brahamin Bania Raj! Anti Corruption Campaign supported by NGOs and Hindutva Forces and Brahaminical Political Parties TARGET Indian Constitution and Constitutional Safeguards for Excluded SC, ST and OBC Communities along with Minorities and advoates EXTRACOSTITUTIONAL Brahaminical system led by Civil Society. It is NOT targeted to CORRUPTION at all as it defends the FREE Market Economy and Zionist Brahaminical Hegemony. The Pro US Democratic Movement is meant to perform an indefinite DRAMA to help the Brahaminical Parties to Pass all the Antipeople Bills, finacial reorms pushing Economic Reforms and FDI raj in US interest and it is sponsored by India Incs,MNCs and SHOWBIZ just because it is NOT and NEVER against FREE Market Economy or Market Dominating Ruling Zionist Brahaminical classes! Thanks to Economic reforms and EXCLUSION ETHNIC Cleansing Economy Ruled by LPG Mafia,Millionaires in India are likely to see their wealth grow by a whopping 405 percent over the next decade -- the fastest in the world, according to a study by global consulting major Deloitte. The number of millionaires in India surged to a record high of 1.53 lakh in 2010, making the country's high networth individual (HNI) population 12th largest across the globe, as per a global study.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Bharat Mukti Morcha is STOPPED to Hold Massive Mulnivasi National Rally in Ramlila Ground as ANNA Hazaare has HIJACJKED the Ramlila Ground with surgical Precision. No Mass Movement is Possible to defend the Persecuted Indigenous Aborigin Rural Agrari
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