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

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Is Anna out of the Tihar Jail, It was said in the news that Anna has demanded that the Park permisses be freed for his protest or he is not going to leave the Jail and is going to continue his fast in Jail.

Before blaming any political party just think about what the BJP or any other party had done when faced with the same situation.

I say the same thing which is being done now maybe even worse. Blindly blaming anyone is hypocrisy. It is nothing more than opportunism as to what the other political parties are doing presently.
I accept that but talking about hipocracy, you have to learn it from the Congress on their double standards on every issue that have be accused of. One day the PM says he is willing to bring the PM post under the LokPal bill the next day after meeting with other cabinate ministers he reverts the statement.
To be frank from bottom to top, all Congress men are alike, the talk one and do the opposite be it politics or with friends
 
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movement can easily turn anti gov if congress never wake up now it will be too late .
 
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Before blaming any political party just think about what the BJP or any other party had done when faced with the same situation.
Why do you think this civil society has got the king of support it is getting??? All the parties have let us down on the issue of corruption....

I say the same thing which is being done now maybe even worse. Blindly blaming anyone is hypocrisy. It is nothing more than opportunism as to what the other political parties are doing presently.

No doubt about it...Opposition parties are using this opportunity to cash in..but who has given them this opportunity....It is the senseless action of the govt. Do you see how nervous they are??? What was the need to arrest him if you later release him??? It is the public anger which forced them and deep inside they very well know people are fed up from corruption...

I don't care if Congress fall's right now and BJP comes back to the power...Reason is simple...whosoever will come next will know that corruption cannot go on the way it is going....In short there will be a deterrent that status quo on corruption can no longer go on....This will now alleviate the corruption issue however it will be a step towards the ultimate goal
 
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Nothing gona change, People supporting Anna on Internet never turns to Booth on Election day.
 
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Nothing gona change, People supporting Anna on Internet never turns to Booth on Election day.
The same was said when beast like Manu Sharma were release even after killing Jessica Lal right under the nose of so called elites....But people movement changed the perception...."Chalta Hai" attitude of public hardly changes however that doesn't mean it don't....
 
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Nothing gona change, People supporting Anna on Internet never turns to Booth on Election day.
It was long back ago when people thought of no use in voting, but the trend has been changed, a lot do turn to excercise their voting right, if you see the % voting in the last state elections, you can see that there has been a tramendous change in the peoples attitue.
The problem I see is that most of the people who contest in the polls are either cirminals or in the worst case not good to play politics fair, People need to be taught of 49O so that the people with Cirminal background can be outcast by the people themselves.
 
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It was long back ago when people thought of no use in voting, but the trend has been changed, a lot do turn to excercise their voting right, if you see the % voting in the last state elections, you can see that there has been a tramendous change in the peoples attitue.
The problem I see is that most of the people who contest in the polls are either cirminals or in the worst case not good to play politics fair, People need to be taught of 49O so that the people with Cirminal background can be outcast by the people themselves.

Also till any one of the party gets 2/3 Majority, the things will be like this only.
 
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Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN

New Delhi (CNN) -- "Thousands of Indians took to the streets Wednesday in a show of solidarity with a 72-year-old activist arrested a day earlier as he prepared to go on a public hunger strike to push for stronger anti-corruption measures.

Authorities detained Anna Hazare on Tuesday for planning to hold the strike at a public park without agreeing to police conditions, investigators said.

Organizers did not accept six of 22 police conditions for allowing the protest, including limiting the crowd to the capacity of the ground, police said.

Police also briefly detained 1,300 supporters who planned to join Hazare at a protest site.

A magistrate sent Hazare and seven supporters to jail after they failed to post bail, according to Rajan Bhagat, a police spokesman in New Delhi.

They were freed hours later and shifted to a prison office after the magistrate issued release orders, jail spokesman Sunil Gupta said.

The group has refused to leave the prison office until they are allowed to hold their hunger strike without unacceptable conditions, the jail spokesman said.

Thousands gathered in several cities, chanting pro-Hazare slogans and echoing his demands.

Supporters carrying Indian flags held sit-ins, marches and noisy demonstrations. Many had "I am Anna" labels on their shirts.

Hazare conducted a similar five-day hunger strike in April at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar landmark, ending it after India's prime minister agreed to introduce long-pending legislation meant to crack down on graft.

Anti-corruption campaigners have rejected legislation prepared by the federal government to create a citizen ombudsman, saying the bill, now in Parliament, was too weak to tackle endemic graft in the system.

Critics, on their part, have accused the activists of undermining lawmakers who will decide the proposed law.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday justified the arrests in a statement before parliament.

"Our Government acknowledges the right of citizens to hold peaceful protests," he said. "Shri Anna Hazare and his supporters would have been allowed to hold their protest fast if they had accepted the conditions under which the permission was granted and had undertaken to abide by the conditions. Since they declined to do so, Delhi Police was obliged to refuse permission to hold the protest fast."

Amid shouts by opposition lawmakers over the police response to Hazare's protest, the Indian prime minister also cited supremacy of the legislature.

"I am not aware of any constitutional philosophy or principle that allows any one to question the sole prerogative of parliament to make a law," he said.

Singh, whose government is roiled in massive corruption scandals, acknowledged in a national address earlier in the week that no single measure could handle chronic corruption.

"I believe that there is no single big step which we can take to eradicate corruption. In fact, we will have to act simultaneously on many fronts," Singh said.

Campaigners' insistence on not accepting legislation other than their own version of the anti-corruption bill was "beyond comprehension," Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters Tuesday.

"How can you indirectly endorse such an argument that it is his bill and no other bill (that is acceptable)?" the home minister said.

Police took Hazare into custody after the veteran activist told officers that he would "defy" orders not to hold a demonstration, the home minister said.

He said Hazare and his supporters were welcome to raise their concerns with a parliamentary committee that will scrutinize the legislation before it is presented to lawmakers for a vote.

Activists appealed to government employees to take a day off work in a show of solidarity with Hazare, a call federal officials were quick to term "wrong."

"I sincerely hope that the government servants don't respond to such wrong calls," the home minister said."
 
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Too late to the party ! Many thread discussed and done with !:wave:
 
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Anna Hazare ji and Indian people win... imperialist scamster party loses. Simple. Three cheers to Hazare ji! :yahoo:
 
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Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN

New Delhi (CNN) -- "Thousands of Indians took to the streets Wednesday in a show of solidarity with a 72-year-old activist arrested a day earlier as he prepared to go on a public hunger strike to push for stronger anti-corruption measures.

Authorities detained Anna Hazare on Tuesday for planning to hold the strike at a public park without agreeing to police conditions, investigators said.
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Awwww, I'm sorry to hear that. ^^
 
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No doubt about it...Opposition parties are using this opportunity to cash in..but who has given them this opportunity....It is the senseless action of the govt. Do you see how nervous they are??? What was the need to arrest him if you later release him??? It is the public anger which forced them and deep inside they very well know people are fed up from corruption...

Yes I agree with you that government in currently nervous with the massive support the movement is gaining. At the same time you and me were pretty sure that such a thing was expected if the government dared to make such a move. However now that they have done it, it may be that there is some kind of a counter plan by the government, I am sure the people at the helm are not fools to make such a move which is more or less harakiri.
 
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