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Kisan Baburao Hazare

Born 15 June 1937 (age 74)

Bhingar,Bombay Province,British India

Nationality Indian

Other names Anna Hazare

Known for Watershed development programmes

Right to Information movement

Anti-corruption movement

Religion Hinduism
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Spouse unmarried

Parents Laxmibai Hazare (Mother)

Baburao Hazare (Father)

Awards Padma Shri

1990

Padma Bhushan

1992

Website

www.annahazare.org

Kisan Baburao Hazare pronunciation(helpinfo)(Marathi:) (born 15 June 1937),

popularly known as Anna Hazare pronunciation(helpinfo)(Marathi: ), is anIndiansocial

activist andanarcho-pacifistwho is especially recognised for his contribution to the development and

structuring ofRalegan Siddhi, a village in Parner talukaofAhmednagar district,Maharashtra,India and

his efforts for establishing it as a model village, for which he was awarded thePadma Bhushanthe

third-highest civilian awardby the government of India in 1992.[1]

After leading a number ofnonviolent protests in Maharashtra state against corruption, 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 nationwideprotestsin 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 the July 2011 findings of aCNN-IBN- Hindustan TimesOpinion poll, the Indian public

prefers Anna Hazare to the Government of India to tackle corruption, and also see him as more

trustworthy than the government.[4] According to an Indian daily English newspaperDaily News and

Analysiss annual list of top 50 most influential people for 2011, Anna Hazare is the most influential

person in Mumbai.[5]

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1 Early life

2 Military service

3 Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi

o 3.1 Uprooting alcoholism

o 3.2 Grain Bank

o 3.3 Watershed development programme

o 3.4 Milk production

o 3.5 Education

o 3.6 Removal of untouchability

o 3.7 Collective marriages

o 3.8 Gram Sabha

4 Activism

o 4.1 Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra

o 4.2 Right to Information movement

o 4.3 Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act

o 4.4 Campaign against liquor from food grains

o 4.5 Lokpal Bill movement

4.5.1 Hunger strike in Delhi

4.5.2 End of hunger strike after meeting demands

4.5.3 Differences with the government on draft bill

4.5.4 August 16, 2011 indefinite fast

o 4.6 Electoral reform movement

o 4.7 Protest against atrocities against Swami Ramdev and his supporters

5 Controversies

6 Conspiracy to kill him

7 Honours, Awards and International Recognition

8 Personal life

9 Writings

10 See also

11 Bibliography

12 External links
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[edit]Early life

Swati Surve was born on 15 June 1937 in Bhingar, a small village near the city ofAhmednagar,

in Bombay Province(present-dayMaharashtra).[6] Swati's father, Baburao Hazare, worked as an

unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy. His grandfather was in the army, posted at Bhingar,when he was born. His grandfather died in 1945 but Hazare's father Baburao continued to stay at

Bhingar. In 1952, Hazare's father resigned from his job and returned to his own village, Ralegan

Siddhi. Hazare had six younger siblings and the family faced significant hardships. Hazare's childless

aunt offered to look after him and his education, and took young Kisan 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 atDadarto support his family. He soon started his own shop and

brought two of his brothers to Bombay.[7]

[edit]Military service

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In 1962, events in South Asia meant that large-scale army recruitments were being undertaken.

Despite not meeting the physical requirements, 25-year-old Anna was selected, as emergency

recruitment was taking place in the Indian Army.[8]After training at Aurangabad in Maharashtra he

started his career in the Indian Army as a driver in 1963.[9]During theIndo-Pakistani War of 1965,

Hazare was posted at the border in theKhem Karansector. On 12 November

1965,Pakistan launched air attacks on Indian bases, and all of Hazare's comrades became martyrs;

he was the only survivor of that convoy. It was a close shave for Hazare as one bullet had passed by

his head.[10] He was driving a truck.[7][11] 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" bySwami

Vivekananda in a book stall at the New Delhi railway station.[12] 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 ofVivekananda, Gandhi, andVinoba

Bhave.[13] During the mid-1970s, he again survived a road accident while driving.[14]It was at that

particular moment that Hazare took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity, at the age of38.[10]In 1975, he left the army as soon as he become eligible for receiving pension.[8]

[edit]Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi

The dream of India as a strong

nation will not be realized without

self-reliant, self-sufficient villages,
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this can be achieved only throughsocial commitment and involvement

of the common man.

Anna Hazare [15]

In 1975 after a voluntary retirement from the Indian army, Hazare went to his native villageRalegan

Siddhi, a village located in the acute drought-prone and rain-shadow zone of Parner Tehsil

ofAhmadnagardistrict, in centralMaharashtra. 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.[8][16]

[edit]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).[17]Hazare and the youth group decided to

take up the issue ofalcoholism. 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.[18]

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.[19]

Hazare said, Doesnt 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 becauseshe cares for the child. The alcoholics were punished so that their families would not be destroyed.[20]

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
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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 theGram 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.[21]

It was decided to ban the sale of tobacco, cigarettes, andbeedies (a speciality cigarette) 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 in any shops at Ralegan Siddhi.[22][23][24]

[edit]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 low prices at harvest time.[8]

[edit]Watershed development programme


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 [25]

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 irrigationin 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.[13][14]The
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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.

[18] 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.[26] 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).[18]

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.[27]

[edit]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 theZilla Parishad.[28]

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.[8]

[edit]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
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towns ofShirurandParnerto pursue higher education, but due tosocioeconomicconditions, 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.[29]

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 herSecondary School Certificatein 1982.[22] 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.[14]

[edit]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. TheDalits 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.[30][31][29][32]

[edit]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 Mandaltaking responsibility for cooking and serving

the food. The vessels, the loudspeaker system, the mandap, and the decorations have also been

bought by the Tarun Mandalmembers belonging to the oppressed castes. From 1976 to 1986, 424

marriages have been held under this system.[29]

[edit]Gram Sabha


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The Gandhian philosophyon rural development considers the Gram Sabha as an important

democratic institution for collective decision making in the villages of India.[33]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.

[21]

Anna is a shining example of

creativity and service by an ex-

Serviceman.

Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (in 1991)[34]

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 Mandalmonitors the educational activities.

The Vividh Karyakari Societygives 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 Mandalattends to the

welfare needs of women.[33]

[edit]Activism

[edit]Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra
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Anna Hazare listening the problems of people at Nanded,Maharashtra.

In 1991 Hazare launched the Bhrashtachar 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 resultedin 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 GovernorP. 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 5,000(US$110).[38] On 9 September 1998 Hazare was

imprisoned in the Yerawada Jail to serve a three-month sentence mandated by the Mumbai

Metropolitan Court.[11][39] The sentencing came as a huge shock at that time to all social activists.

Leaders of all political parties except the BJP and the Shiv Sena came in support of him.[40][41] Later,

due to public protests, the Government of Maharashtra ordered his release from the jail. After release,

Hazare wrote a letter to then chief ministerManohar Joshidemanding Gholap's removal for his role in

alleged malpractices in the Awami Merchant Bank.[42] Gholap resigned from the cabinet on 27 April

1999.[43]

In 2003 corruption charges were raised by Hazare against four NCP ministers of theCongress-

NCP government.[44] He started hisfast unto deathon 9 August 2003. He ended his fast on 17 August

2003 after then chief ministerSushil 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, andPadmasinh 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.

220,000 (US$4,910) spent by the Hind Swaraj Trustfor Anna Hazare's birthday celebrations was
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concluded by the commission as illegal and amounting to a corrupt practice,[47][48]though Abhay Firodia,

an industrialist subsequently donated 248,000 (US$5,530) to the trust for that purpose.[49]The setting

apart of 11 acres of its land by the trust in favour of theZilla Parishad without obtaining permission

from the charity commissioner was concluded as a case of maladministration. The commission also

concluded that the maintenance of accounts of the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Janandolan Trustafter 10

November 2001 had not been according to the rules and 46,374 (US$1,030) spent by the Sant

Yadavbaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal Trustfor renovating a temple was in contravention to its object

of imparting secular education.[47][48]

[edit]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 professorAlasdair Scott

Robertssaid:

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 Alandiagainst the proposed amendment. He ended his fast on 19 August 2006, after the

government agreed to change its earlier decision.[52]

[edit]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
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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.[21]However,

like others, this law has also not been followed in its true spirit.[53][54]

[edit]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 ofintoxicatingdrinks 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 ministersLaxman 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 atShirdi, 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 10 (US$0.22) (per litre of alcohol) to politicians or their sons who were directly or

indirectly engaged in making alcohol from foodgrains. Some of the main beneficiaries of these licences

includes Amit and Dheeraj Deshmukh, sons of Union Heavy Industries MinisterVilasrao

Deshmukh,Bharatiya Janata Party leaderGopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Palwe and her

husband Charudatta Palwe, sons-in-law ofP.V. Narasimha Rao, Rajya Sabha MP Govindrao Adik.[62]

[58][63]The government approved the proposal for food grain-based alcohol production in spite of stiff

opposition from the planning and finance departments saying there is a huge demand in other

countries for food grain made liquor in comparison with that ofmolasses.[64]Anna filed a Public InterestLitigation against the Government of Maharashtra for allowing food-grains for manufacturing liquor in

the Nagpur bench of theBombay High Court. On August 20, 2009 Maharashtra government stopped

the policy. However, distilleries sanctioned before that date and those who started production within

two years of sanction were entitled for subsidies.
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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]

[edit]Lokpal Bill movement

Anna Hazare's hunger strike at Jantar MantarinDelhi

Main article: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement

In 2011, Hazare initiated aSatyagrahamovement for passing a stronger anti-

corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament as conceived in theJan Lokpal

Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill). The Jan Lokpal Bill was drafted earlier by N. Santosh Hegde, former

justice of the Supreme Court of IndiaandLokayukta ofKarnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer

in the Supreme Court andArvind 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]

[edit]Hunger strike in Delhi

Hazare began his fast unto death on 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantarin 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 Lokpaland Lokayuktas

(Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of IndiaManmohan

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,

formerIPSofficerKiran Bedi, andJayaprakash Narayan lent their support to Hazare's hunger strike

and anti-corruption campaign. People have shown support in Internet social media such
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as TwitterandFacebook. Online Signature Campaigns likeavaaz got 6.5lakh signatures in just 36

hours. In addition to spiritual leadersSri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Ramdev, Swami Agniveshand

former Indian cricketerKapil 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 BhartiandOm 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]

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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

toBangalore,Mumbai,Chennai,Ahmedabad, Guwahati,Shillong,Aizawl and a number of other cities

in India.[76]

[edit]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 Mukherjeewill be the Chairman of the draft committee whileShanti 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 andSalman 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

BhushanSenior 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.
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