Anna Hazare released from jail after India-wide protests, begins fasting

[mehboobkz]

The rise and rise of Anna Hazare : North: India Today

 

[Skull and Bones]

Sharad Powar will be bought down for sure this time.

Long live Anna Hazare.

 

[LaBong]

This deserves a separate thread. This will be a slap to some who still thinks Hindus and Muslims in India are separated.

It's a fringe organisation not Jamiat Ulema e Hind.

 

[indopak]

Epic words from Anna Hazare - " Whats so great if Sharad Pawar quits? Another Corrupt Minister will replace him"

 

[axisofevil]

Hey everyone wherever you guys live should be organizing a protest....small or large.....get your parents, family members, strangers, classmates, whoever, and march in support. I saw one poster marching in Guragon....it doesn't matter how big or how small the city or village is.......the point is to get the message out....no more BS ...No more Corruption....Im marching only 10 ppl in Kaiphuza, Kerala....(small village while I am here on vacation)........Time for the youth to mobilize so these babus take notice.......In Time of INdia....B. Raman made it a point to show how youth are mobilizing to march in protest and support Anna......This is our march of Nonviolence....we only get one shot.....forums and Facebook is god to organize and make arrangements.....keep it going all over India from the Northeast to the West, from Kashmir to the Tamil Naidu.....let's do it!

 

[axisofevil]

Anyone wants to join the march in Kaipuhza, Kerala.....meet up at 10am tomorrow morning at K College. pPlease make it a point to bring posters or signs in support of Anna and the movement against corruption..........This is our JASMINE revolution

 

[Capt.Popeye]

He will not. he is blood sucker , biggest mafia.

Sharad Pawar is the estwhile "guru" of Suresh Kalmadi. He is the person who promoted Kalmadi within the Congress, till the two "chors" fell apart over sharing the booty. Kalmadi was trying to be "sawa-ser" to Pawar's "ser"!

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Somehow, dont think this will work for Anna Hazare, people in India forget about news very quickly.

Will be in media attention for 3-4 more days and then everyone will talk about a different news, maybe IPL.

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

Finally, a sensible article. This was in today's Business Standard:

The Hazare hazard ​

Social activist Anna Hazare wants an equal number of self-proclaimed civil society activists to be part of an official committee drafting a new Lok Pal Bill. “There should be as many representatives of government as there are of the people” is his submission. Hello? What is a government in a democracy if not an extension of the will of the people? Can self-appointed do-gooders, however well meaning, usurp the role of “representatives of the people” without due process of election? Mr Hazare is a good man. Unfortunately, he is “fasting unto death” for a wrong cause. The idea of a Lok Pal, an anti-corruption ombudsman, based on a Scandinavian model, was a bad one when it was first mooted in the mid-1960s and remains a bad one 40-odd years later. The creation of the institution of a Lok Ayukta at the state level has not helped reduce corruption in state governments, so a new Lok Pal at the national level is unlikely to do a better job at the central government level. The recent experience with the nomination of the Central Vigilance Commissioner shows that it is individuals rather than institutions that matter and there is no guarantee that a Lok Pal will necessarily inspire confidence and be effective. No one will deny that the problem of corruption in high places needs to be dealt with. There is no better way of doing this than strengthening existing institutions of democracy, including the legislature, the judiciary, the executive and even the media. Greater transparency in the functioning of these institutions will reduce corruption in public life. No Lok Pal can do what members of the four estates of the nation cannot and will not do.

It is a pity that despite the obvious shortcomings of this idea, it has been floated repeatedly. Bills have been repeatedly tabled in Parliament and successive governments, comprising almost all political parties in India today, have repeatedly spoken in favour of it, without doing anything about it. Somebody must call a spade a spade. The Lok Pal Bill should be buried, not kept alive by a threat of a fast unto death, even by a well-intentioned person like Mr Hazare.

It is tragic that an assortment of non-accountable activists, publicity-seeking busybodies and an assortment of do-gooders have all managed to push the gentle Mr Hazare into going on a fast unto death. No government in a democracy can approve of such blackmail. Merely because Mahatma Gandhi used a fast unto death as a means of exerting pressure on an alien, colonial government does not mean that in a democracy such tactics can be tolerated, much less eulogised. The situation in which the government finds itself is partly of the ruling party’s own making. By elevating the status of non-government organisations (NGOs) that are not accountable to anyone, and by not activating its own cadres on development and other issues of public concern, the Congress party has given a larger-than-life role to NGO leaders. Nothing should be done, even in the name of fighting corruption, that can weaken the Indian state and the office of the head of government, who is the embodiment of national sovereignty and answerable only to Parliament. If necessary, Mr Hazare should be force-fed and hospitalised, but not allowed to browbeat an elected government of the people.

The Hazare hazard

 

[justanobserver]

Finally, a sensible article. This was in today's Business Standard:

The Hazare hazard ​

Social activist Anna Hazare wants an equal number of self-proclaimed civil society activists to be part of an official committee drafting a new Lok Pal Bill. “There should be as many representatives of government as there are of the people” is his submission. Hello? What is a government in a democracy if not an extension of the will of the people? Can self-appointed do-gooders, however well meaning, usurp the role of “representatives of the people” without due process of election? Mr Hazare is a good man. Unfortunately, he is “fasting unto death” for a wrong cause.

The Hazare hazard

Crappy article !

Are Kalmadi and Sharad Pawar the "extension of the will of the people" ? What a way to justify inactivity and laziness !

This article is an example of what is wrong with India ! Usual whining and bitching, obfuscating the issue by using flowery language and not giving a shred of constructive advice !

 

[axisofevil]

Who is a Pakistani equivalent of Anna hazare and why he is not on Fast onto death jana??

Because that person will simply die lol

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

haha Kapil Sibal was furious on barkha dutt, she said Anna saying you are also corrupt on live TV.

 

[sab]

The writer of the article does not answer why Lokbal bill is not being passed for years...

And Hazare is attacking the clauses of existing bill which make these organizations ineffective.....

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

Crappy article !

Are Kalmadi and Sharad Pawar the "extension of the will of the people" ? What a way to justify inactivity and laziness !

This article is an example of what is wrong with India ! Usual whining and bitching, obfuscating the issue by using flowery language and not giving a shred of constructive advice !

Are Kalmadi and Sharad Pawar NOT the elected representatives in Lok Sabha? Have they NOT been voted into power by a majority of people in their constituencies? How else do you define the will of the people?

Who is Anna Hazare anyways? If he enjoys popular support, why doesn't he stand for elections?

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

The writer of the article does not answer why Lokbal bill is not being passed for years...

And Hazare is attacking the clauses of existing bill which make these organizations ineffective.....

The reason it has not been passed is because the concept of the Lokpal is unviable and stupid in the first place. How can you give such powers to one person, and more importantly, who selects him/her?