Anna Hazare's fight against corruption

[kabira]

As Arvind Kejrival recently said - "Sibal is the same man who who could see no revenue loss in the 2G spectrum scam". Honestly speaking' date=' I really do not trust many people in this Govt to be "not corrupt".[/quote'] agree in that respect. Even MMS has been saying "I don't know", "No scams etc etc", even he should be considered as corrupt in that respect.

[Stuge]

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[flamy]

For all my southie brothers-Mera Neta Chor=ennodaye arasiyalwaadi oru thirudan :D

:WTF: desha baashalalo antha telugu lesa :finger:

[ViruRulez]

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The best one is the "Mr. Prime Minister, Corruption from Birth Certificate to Death Certificate. Need more proof to wake up! " How true :hatsoff:

[flamy]

^ abe ghantu, why don't u quote ur huge ass while ur at it? :finger:

[Guest Gunner]

Chidambaram is going to draft a bill on anti corruption and this baburao thinks he won? :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[vaibhav_delhi]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Corruption-denting-Indias-image-Narayana-Murthy/articleshow/7922101.cms

Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy on Friday came out strongly in support of Anna Hazare, saying the need of the hour was a strong, effective Lokpal. If India were to have a whistle-blower policy and a Lokpal which people could approach, then corruption, especially in business, would automatically fall, he said.

[ravishingravi]

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[kabira]

Chidambaram is going to draft a bill on anti corruption and this baburao thinks he won? :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

he is not drafting it alone isnt?? its 50-50 50 from Gov and 50 from civil society. Not sure whats need to laugh. I see some guys not living in India making big commets.

[Sachin=GOD]

Anna Hazare calls off fast

Gandhian Anna Hazare on Saturday called off his hunger strike bringing to an end his 98-hour protest after government issued a gazette notification constituting a 10-member Joint Committee of ministers and civil society activists, including him, to draft an effective Lok Pal Bill. Curtains were drawn on the anti-corruption campaign that drew instant nationwide support with a little girl giving the 73-year-old activist a glass of water at 10.45 am at Jantar Mantar, the nerve-centre of the agitation for a strong legislation to combat political and administrative graft. Earlier, Mr. Hazare offered water to some women, among the over 300 activists who had joined the fast. Social activists Swami Agnivesh, Medha Patkar and Kiran Bedi hailed Hazare’s campaign as the Gandhian said he would to continue the fight for the “second struggle for independence“. PM issues statement In the morning, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a statement saying the government intends to introduce the “historic legislation†in the Monsoon session of Parliament. He described the coming together of civil society and government on the Lok Pal Bill issue as a step that augurs well for democracy, saying it signifies the mutual resolve to combat corruption. “I am pleased that Anna Hazare has agreed to give up his fast,†he said after his ministers worked out a deal with Hazare’s emissaries last night to bring to end the protest at Jantar Mantar. Shouts of ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ rent the air as Mr. Hazare’s followers and admirers gathered in hundreds, just a stone’s throw from Parliament, celebrated the notification that was proudly displayed at the fast site. Making a brief speech after he broke his fast, the veteran Gandhian said it was just the beginning of a long struggle ahead and he would not rest content with the Lok Pal Bill but also fight for reforms of the electoral system, including the ‘right to recall’ from gram panchayat level. The notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice said the Joint Drafting Committee to prepare a draft of the Lok Pal Bill will have five ministers from the government and five nominees of Hazare, including himself. Members of joint committee The five ministers are Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Chairperson, Home Minister P Chidamabaram, Law Minister Veerappa Moily (Convenor), HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid. The civil society will be represented by Hazare, former Supreme Court judge N Santosh Hegde, former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan (Co-Chairperson), lawyer Prashant Bhushan and RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal. The notification said the Joint Drafting Committee will commence work forthwith evolving its own procedure to prepare the proposed legislation. The committee shall complete its work latest by June 30, it said. Mr. Kejriwal told reporters that by Monday it would be known as to when the committee would hold its first meeting. Mr. Hazare said, “Our fight against corruption does not end here. We will continue the fight. This is only the beginning. If the government does not pass Lok Pal Bill, I will come back to fight again.†Deadline Aug. 15 He set August 15 as the deadline for passage of the proposed bill. “If the government does not get the legislation passed, I will hold the national flag and join you people here for another agitation. “There are more struggles ahead -- getting the bill passed by the Cabinet and by Lok Sabha,†he said. The Gandhian activist maintained that his next fight would be for a right to recall public servants like Sarpanch, corporator and so on if they failed in their duty. He also sent a message to the Election Commission asking it to change the present Electronic Voting Machines as they were “faulty“. He batted for a “none of the above†provision in the ballot or EVMs and for provisions to check use of money power in elections. “This will set their (candidates using money power) mind right,†Mr. Hazare said. He insisted that this agitation had given him great strength and urged that “people with a clean image†should join the movement. Mr. Hazare told the gathering, which had been swelling by the day ever since he began the fast on April five, that with the formation of the drafting committee their responsibilities have increased. “I am ending the fast because the government has accepted our demands. What is of utmost importance is that in the last few days, people have shown to the world that we are one on an issue which relates to the country. People stood united here, irrespective of caste, religion and community,†Mr. Hazare said. Mr. Hazare said Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev had through their sacrifice thrown out the British and “now this people’s revolution has disturbed the peace of the present-day rulers“. Hailing the role of the media in publicising the protest world over, he said this has proved what the fourth estate of democracy can achieve. Mr. Hazare also said the way the “youth power†has come out to support the movement has offered a “new ray of hope for the futureâ€. He thanked various civil society organisations and individuals for their support to the camapaign against corruption. “We have to be cautious about wrong people getting into similar committees at the state level. We will keep an eye to prevent this,†he said. The end to the protest, which evoked a nationwide support cutting across the society, was in sight last night after the government wilted under a sustained anti-corruption campaign and agreed to issue a government order to set up a 10-member joint committee for drafting a strong Lokpal Bill. The deal came after three rounds of negotiations between Hazare’s emissaries and union minister Kapil Sibal. Protestors and supporters of the campaign erupted into cries of ‘Vande Mataram’, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ as Hazare announced that he was ending his fast as the government has agreed to their demands.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1645213.ece?homepage=true

[Guest Gunner]

he is not drafting it alone isnt?? its 50-50 50 from Gov and 50 from civil society. Not sure whats need to laugh. I see some guys not living in India making big commets.

What do you know about chidambaram or TN Politics? I know TN Political history for the last 50 years and have actively followed it for atleast 15 years. There is a lot to laugh at the irony, you won't understand. :haha::haha::haha::haha:

[Guest Gunner]

:WTF: desha baashalalo antha telugu lesa :finger:

Mayiru. :finger:

[Texy]

This is amazing....I have never seen India rise like this before! Hazare...what a man...chose to remain bachelor for the rest of his life and dedicated himself towards the betterment of the country P.S. this is the bigger version of that Amul Pic posted by Ravi earlier

[Aaku]

Great pics stuge !! :two_thumbs_up:

[nikred]

:WTF: desha baashalalo antha telugu lesa :finger:

no telugu is not lesu it is moruuu. :two_thumbs_up:

[Aaku]

:WTF: desha baashalalo antha telugu lesa :finger:

Mayiru. :finger:

no telugu is not lesu it is moruuu. :two_thumbs_up:

:WTF:

[Sachin=GOD]

Be wary of false prophets The fact that Anna Hazare is no longer on the list of the most powerful shows that people are more sober today and sceptical of tall claims made by so-called crusaders

The weekly, India Today, has just published its annual compilation of the most powerful people in India. Such lists inevitably contain some degree of arbitrariness as well as an element of subjectivity. But in the capital city which gets its kicks on gossip and patronage, such listings are sacred rites of reaffirmation. These yearly snapshots give a reasonable idea of how power is deemed to be shared among the prominenti. What is most astonishing about this year’s Power List is that social activist Anna Hazare, judged the most powerful person in India in 2012, does not find a place at all. The man who a year ago was declared the mightiest public presence has been reduced to a big nothing. Even Arvind Kejriwal, that energetic major domo in the Anna clique, who figured prominently at no. 47 last year, does not make the cut this time. FASCINATING SUBJECT The exclusion of Anna Hazare should be a fascinating phenomenon to every student of Indian political sociology. Was his canonisation last year totally misplaced or is his exclusion this year a reflection of a distorted notion of “power” and “powerful”? After all, only 12 months ago, the man was serenaded as our saviour for his anti-corruption campaign — a man who inspired millions of fellow Indians to raise their voice against a flawed system. It cannot be anybody’s case that India has become significantly free of “corruption” within a space of 12 months, or at least has become so much better that we no longer need the Anna Hazare ministrations. Or, have those who responded to Anna Hazare’s call to come out to the streets seen through the game, have become wiser, even a bit cynical? Or, have those who promoted him in the first place and crafted a halo around him, given up on him, having achieved whatever elbow room they were looking for themselves? Has the “political” class beaten back an honest crusader or has the democratic legitimacy of the political system finally prevailed? What has changed in India that the man who was hailed as leading us to our “second war of Independence” is almost forgotten as a fallen hero? All these are troubling questions and there are no easy answers. And the absence of easy answers points, once again, to the complicatedness of our collective woes, as also to the inescapable unpleasantness inherent in maintaining and sustaining a state order, in this exacting age of borderless capital and borderless terror. Admittedly, the story is yet to be told of who decided that Anna Hazare be pitch-forked on to the national stage. All these years, the Gandhian activist was content to play the role of a minor nuisance to Maharashtra’s highly contaminated politicians and bureaucracy, that too with only patchy results. He never did set Mumbai on fire, yet he was now pencilled in for the role of a prime time insurgent. The powerful people with motives and resources who bankrolled the “movement” too were cognisant of his limited mind space. His only asset was that he was perhaps the only one around who still donned a Gandhi cap. MOMENT OF FRUSTRATION But for a while the Anna show was a great hit because the moment was ripe. It would be totally unimaginative to negate the national mood that provided the backdrop to the Anna Hazare movement. It was a moment of national frustration. A strange sense of helplessness and paralysis was visible to the vocal middle classes, who needed to have someone to blame for their globally induced economic miseries. So much so that a leading intellectual even allowed himself to suggest that Anna Hazare’s rambling speech at Ram Lila Maidan was more inspiring than Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Tryst with Destiny” oration. Such was the middle classes’ desperation and disenchantment with the A K. Antony rate of decision-making in UPA-II. As far as the middle classes were concerned a “Jan Lok Pal” was the abracadabra to make all the corruption go away and with it their miseries. NOT A ‘MOVEMENT’ The Anna campaign was never a “movement” and it petered out because the very process that made it a “movement” lacked the integrity and moral stamina for a long-distance journey. To begin with, the TRP-jihadists saw a potential in Anna Hazare and adopted him as a long lost cousin. As it were, a number of media personalities came to invest heavily in the Hazare phenomenon. Some of them wrote fawning books, some cheerfully strategised with the India against Corruption crowd. They joyfully crossed the thin line between journalism and political partisanship. For a while, corporate advertising support was available for this jugal bandi. The same telecom giants who figured dishonourably in the “2G” scam were in the forefront of providing the requisite advertising help to this “revolt of the masses.” But then all good things do come to an end. And the media barons are not without greed. The eager-beavers who were leading the anti-corruption crusade were themselves caught on camera cutting deals with the “corrupt” corporate personalities. The spell was broken. A year later, the citizen is today much more sceptical of tall claims made by crusading matadors on the nightly shows. Quest for good governance is a noble aspiration among citizens, not just in India but all over the democratic world. In response to this aspiration, the Manmohan Singh government has taken a few baby-steps towards instituting a new accountability structure. The Prime Minister had the wisdom and the humility to acknowledge and salute Anna Hazare, only to be greeted with arrogance and hubris of petty politicians. But thinking citizens do understand the soundness of the constitutional scheme of things. The Anna Hazare-backed solutions were located outside this constitutional arrangement. And if he is a forgotten man it is because the great institutional equilibrium is in the process of recovering its centeredness. It was only in the fitness of things that the judiciary as an institution should have become alarmed at the excessive extra-judicial vigilantism among its ranks. And, when the government gathered the courage to seek a Presidential Reference in the 2G matter, the judiciary grabbed the opportunity to undertake a course correction. An errant Comptroller and Auditor-General, who whetted our appetite for conspiracies and corruption, lost his bite as he increasingly painted himself in a partisan corner. No institutional functionary can be effective if he chooses to give an impression that he believes that all the bad men and all the badness are located on one side of the political divide. Partisanship begets partisanship, and the institution loses its respect and prestige. The energy and anger that sustained Anna Hazare have not dissipated. But the Indian citizen is much more sober today than he was a year ago. Indeed, the Hazare sales-pitch was predicated on our weakness for the myth of a single man as a solution to all our collective ills. MANUFACTURED CULT This is essentially a Bollywood-isation of national imagination. Too often a determined clique is able to manufacture a halo around a man, promising to set things right, and then all the self-styled defenders of democratic values and democratic space effortlessly rush in to enlist in manufacturing a personality cult. At the height of the India Against Corruption crescendo, Kiran Bedi used to argue, as if in a trance, that “Anna has never failed.” The same infallibility and inevitability is now being chanted about another entrant to the Power List, a certain Chief Minister from Gujarat. The same players and strategy that were in play during the Anna “movement” are furiously at work again. But India is wiser today and has moved beyond the Anna Hazare temptation precisely because it can see through false prophets, and the sales-pitch made by them and on their behalf. (Harish Khare is a veteran commentator and political analyst, and former media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh)

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/be-wary-of-false-prophets/article4647786.ece?homepage=true Excellent article.

[jiggo]

I guess The Hindu reckons it is better to let Robert Vadra likes be it. And what about our other prophet, Rahul Gandhi the Moron? the saviour of Congress and UPA III? It is funny how when the public get excited about a certain individual, that individual is shot down by certain pundits and eventually backed by mainstream media. Whilst Rahul Gandhi continues to get unabashed praise from the mainstream media for doing nothing of even mediocre recognition since becoming the lucky sperm.

[King Tendulkar]

Many different forces(all ploticiancs, media, police, cbi etc etc) are all working together to maintain the status quo. As the staus quo means no justice and they continue to collect enormous wealth and power. Thats why people like hazare and kejriwal get scrutinsed and slaughtered.

[asterix]

Govt. is planning to bring in the "amended" Lokpal Bill to the Loksabha tomorrow.... Tried and tested strategy of Congress.. On one hand it's own MPs are not allowing the Parliament to work by continuously protesting about the Telangana bill and on the other, introducing other bills.... It'll simply blame BJP of disrupting the session and not allowing the Lokpal bill to pass while it's own MPs keep on disrupting the sessions... Paid media will then keep on harping and lamenting that BJP is not allowing any " discussions" or " running away from discussions" in the Parliament... The same thing happened in the last session also. Most of the time session was disrupted by these MPs from Andhra... But the blame was on BJP not allowing the Parliament to function....