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Hazare pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi before beginning day-long fast in Delhi

New Delhi, Sun, 11 Dec 2011 ANI

New Delhi, Dec 11(ANI): Veteran social activist Anna Hazare today visited Rajghat in New Delhi to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi before beginning his one-day fast to protest the Central government's version of the Lokpal Bill.

 

Team Anna has invited all political parties including the Congress and the BJP for Hazare's day long fast to be held at Jantar Mantar. azare, who is fighting for a strong anti-graft bill, has reiterated his demand that the Centre should table and enact an effective Lokpal Bill that includes the lower cadres in government and other proposals suggested by the civil society members under the banner of India Against Corruption.

 

Earlier, he had lashed out at the Central government and Parliamentary Standing Committee for "betraying" the people by drafting a "weak" Lokpal Bill.

 

"The issues and provisions that appear in the draft released by the Standing Committee are same as those in the government version of the Lokpal Bill," he had said.

 

"The Standing Committee's draft mirrors what has already been said by the government. This proves that the Standing Committee has betrayed and misled the people. The Standing Committee's draft will not in any way help eliminate corruption from this country," he had added.

 

The Lokpal Bill is seen as a weapon to root out corruption and nepotism from the government machinery and in public life.

 

The proposed Bill envisages the setting up of a national anti-corruption watchdog to check financial mismanagement and corrupt practices that have deeply pervaded several democratic and civic institutions of India.

 

The 74-year-old social activist had staged an indefinite hunger strike against graft that he gave up on August 28 when the government agreed to deliberate the issues raised by him and his forum vis-?-vis the passage and enactment of the Lokpal Bill, a suggestion that has received unprecedented nationwide backing. (ANI)

 


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