Ralegan Sidhi: Gandhian activist Anna Hazare has again on an indefinite fast and demanding to pass the Lokpal bill in ongoing 12-day winter session of Rajya Sabha. The session will end on December 20. Anna Hazare has begin his fast from today in his village Ralegan Sidhi, Maharashtra and called it a “do or die agitation”. Hazare demand that Parliament have to urgently clear the Lokpal Bill which is anti-corruption.
The 76-year-old Gandhian activist is again on an indefinite fast and has demanded that the Rajya Sabha pass that bill in the ongoing 12-day winter session, which ends on December 20.
76-year old Hazare yesterday said, “The Bill has been passed in Lok Sabha. Only the Rajya Sabha needs to debate it. But there has been no progress for a year. It’s been two years since they promised the Lokpal Bill. It’s all an eyewash.”
Hazare also claimed that he had received nearly 15 letters from the Prime Minster and his office assuring him that the bill would be taken up.
Anna has announced a new platform for his latest agitation, the “Jantantra Morcha”, which he says will be non-political.
Anna said, “Jantantra Morcha will not form a party and will not support any political party.”
Previously Anna Hazare fronted a massively popular movement for a new law that would birth a national ombudsman or Lokpal to investigate charges of graft against elected representatives and bureaucrats in 2011.
Anna Hazare had said over the question that if Kejriwal would join him in his latest agitation, “There are no doors or gates that stop anyone from coming here.”
Bureau Report
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