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The one and only obstacle in the way of India's Development is corruption, India stands 2nd in the list of corrupted countries, But a man from Bhingar, Maharashtra has swore an oath to end this practice from India. He has entered fast util his death on 5th April 2011.His indefinite fast has entered the fourth day on Friday. Unhappy from the government's response to his anti-corruption demands,He said he would launch a "Jail Bharo"Agitation on April 12th.
Let's have a look on his life-
Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare (Marathi: किसन बापट बाबुराव हजारे) (born 15 January 1940), popularly known asAnna Hazare (Marathi: अण्णा हजारे), is an Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India and his efforts for establishing it as a model village, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by Government of India, in 1992.
On April 5 2011, Hazare started a 'fast unto death' to exert pressure on the Government of India to enact a strong anti-corruption act as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill, a law that will establish a Lokpal (ombudsman) that will have the power to deal with corruption in public offices.
Early Life-
Anna Hazare was born in Bhingar village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra state in western India to Baburao Hazare and Laxmi Bai, an unskilled labourer family who owned five acres of land. He has two sisters. Due to adverse conditions in 1952 they had to move to their family home in Ralegan Siddhi. He was raised by his childless aunt in Mumbai but could not continue beyond VII standard and had to quit midway due to problems.
Anna Hazare in Indian Army-
Anna Hazare started his career as a driver in the Indian Army. He spent his spare time reading the books of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave that inspired him to become a social worker and activist. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, he was the only survivor in a border exchange of fire.
In Ralegan Siddhi-
After voluntary retirement from the army, Hazare came to Ralegan Siddhi village in 1975. Initially, he led a movement to eradicate alcoholism from the village. Next, he motivated the residents of the village into shramdan (voluntary labour) to build canals, small-scale check-dams and percolation tanks in the nearby hills for watershed development; efforts that solved the problem of scarcity of water in the village that also made irrigation possible. He also motivated the residents of the village to build a secondary school in the village through voluntary labour. He helped farmers of more than 70 villages in drought-prone region in the state of Maharashtra since 1975.
Lets have a look on anna's crusade-
12:30 pm: #Anna Hazare, #corruption, and #Jantar Mantar, are the top trending words and phrases on Twitter India, thanks to dozens of tweets on this topic every minute. Read the top tweets here
12:05 pm: With veteran social activist Anna Hazare continuing his fast-unto-death for a fourth day on Friday to push the government into introducing a tough new law to curb corruption among politicians and bureaucrats, Congress President Sonia Gandhi met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, and discussed the Jan Lokpal Bill issue.
11:30 am: Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Anna Hazare to end his hunger strike, which entered the fourth day, and join the informal committee to make an effective Lokpal Bill.
"I appeal to Anna Hazare to end the fast and participate in the informal committee," he told reporters on the sidelines of a CII event.
11:00 am: Coming out in support of social activist Anna Hazare's fight against corruption, Bollywood actor Anupam Kher said that corruption has to be fought in real life, just as injustice is fought in reel life.
'Just like we fight against injustice in reel life and there is victory of good over evil at the end, we have to fight against corruption and injustice in real life too. People's power should prevail,' Kher said.
In a balanced post, Gaurav Sabnis examines the case for and against Anna Hazare . While there is no doubting Hazare's personal integrity, no discounting the impact his previous trysts with public protest have wrought, a question still remains:
"Yes, his integrity and devotion is impeccable. His zeal for fighting corruption is more intense than any on-screen Bollywood vigilante's. But his tactic of fasting worries me. As a libertarian, I believe everyone has a right to do whatever they want with their body, and that includes fasting unto death. But the tactic is fraught with ethical issues.
It is "do as I say, or I will kill myself", so is fundamentally no different from someone standing on the ledge of a tall building and threatening to jump unless their demands are met. In Anna's hands, the weapon of fasting unto death has mostly been used for the right reasons. But do you know that nation-wide prohibition of alcohol is (or at least used to be until a few years back) one of his causes? If you like your occasional drink, how will you feel if his next fast is for prohibition?"
While a country-wide battle against corruption is long overdue, is Anna Hazare's fast the right vehicle for it, asks Pratap Bhanu Mehta
"The morality of fasting unto death for a political cause in a constitutional democracy has always been a tricky issue. There is something deeply coercive about fasting unto death. When it is tied to an unparalleled moral eminence, as it is in the case of Anna Hazare, it amounts to blackmail. There may be circumstances, where the tyranny of government is so oppressive, or the moral cause at stake so vital that some such method of protest is called for. But in a functioning constitutional democracy, not having one’s preferred institutional solution to a problem accepted, does not constitute a sufficient reason for the exercise of such coercive moral power. This is not the place to debate when a fast-unto-death is appropriate. But B.R. Ambedkar was surely right, in one of his greatest speeches, to warn that recourse to such methods was opening up a democracy to the “grammar of anarchy”."
9:30 am: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal told TV channels a little after 9 am that there had been some confusion about the time of the meeting, and that the government was willing to concede all but two points raised by Hazare and the anti-corruption activists. Anna, meanwhile, announced that he would launch a jail bharo agitation from April 12 if citizens' demands were not met.
8:30 am: Early on Friday, social activist Swami Agnivesh said, "We are waiting for a communication from the government side. Yesterday, it was informally agreed that we would meet around 9 am. We have not got any formal communication".
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