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New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) When the history of the anti-corruption movement is written for posterity, veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare's face will be identified with the fight, says writer, social activist and former super cop Kiran Bedi.
Bedi, who released the book 'Anna Hazare: The Face of India's Fight Against Corruption', is part of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement that saw him sitting on an indefinite hunger strike demanding for a more stringent anti-graft law.
The fast garnered wide public support and resulted in the formation of a 10-member committee, comprising civil society members and politicians, for drafting of a more stringent Jan Lokpal Bill.
'Work has started at the joint drafting commission of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The first draft of the was shocking,' she said.
The next phase of action will depend on the kind of progress the drafting committee makes, she said. 'I will be a part of it, have to see the bill through and keep a watch on it,' Bedi told IANS.
She alleged that the government had hurriedly prepared the first draft of the bill last year before the G-20 summit in Seoul to present a 'clean image of the government'.
Describing Hazare as the 'Mahatma of India', Bedi said: 'Anna Hazare inspired the youth across caste and creed. He was like a spark, he touched a problem which was in everybody's heart.'
'It has been a privilege to see him, work with him and learn from him,' she said.
Madam,
We all supported the movement, in our own small way and I personally believe that every unknown citizen who has been part of the Anti Corruption Movement is entitled to claim credit if we really succeed in booting our corruption from our society. But, Mr. Hazare's undeniable affinity for Bhushans’s family, while denying one more independent civil society member to sit in the committee too would go down in the history of a different kind of corruption (non-monetary), in case of Karunanidhi’s preference for his family members for all power, we call it nepotism, but my vocabulary fails me in case of one activist's die-hard preference for the family of another activist, given the fact that Bhushans’s still have to clear their name on a few very serious economic offences including their family members acquiring lands for farm-houses, when the farmers are being deprived of their agricultural lands, without being paid the fair market price and also are being deprived of their livelihood.
Anyway, it is a every long way to go before anyone brand anyone to take the Mantle of 'Mahatma of India'
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