Anna Hazare speaks. | rod1944's Blog

Anna Hazare speaks----------------------
On the 10th day of his fast Anna gave a speech on Ramlila ground before thousands of his followers. Now Anna fast is entering 12th day and he is showing terrible resilience in his fasting. He told his followers many things from his past experiences of the government handling of farmers’ grievances and corruption. The people in this country are sovereign not the parliament. Anna forcefully said that the idea is a mistake that parliament is sovereign. The elected members of parliament are servants of public. The people in this country are plagued by corruption and this is the main issue now. Corruption is a all pervasive devil which has corroded life at all levels. It is at the level of a peon as well as in high places. The common man is really harassed by this corruption. He remembered that when he was a youth of 18 years, how he belabored a cop for demanding bribe from a poor farmer. Anna decided there and then to fight corruption in life and ever since he has made it the mission of life. He lives in temple and sleeps in the temple, he has not married in life. But this 74 years feeble man is rock solid in his determination to fight corruption at all levels. Now the people are saying that parliamentary procedures are slow and that debate has to be made in parliament on various points before any law could be made. However Anna has made three main demands to government. They are a strong Lokpal at the centre with power to punish and imprison the corrupt officers. Secondly prime minister, parliamentarians and CBI in lokpal’s ambit and thirdly citiens charter should be drawn and published. Anna is shrewd man. He said that the governemtn has many times deceived him and he will not be deceived this time. Now government is ready to table the Janlokpal bill before the parliament and BJP also decided to support it. If that happens, let us hope that Anna’s fast ends on happier note.
Annna Hazare ended his fast as a victory of people on 8/28.