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June 16, 2011 / IANS, New Delhi / DC.
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Veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare on Thursday attacked the government for not being serious about ridding the country of corruption and threatened to agitate again if a strong Lokpal bill was not passed to check corruption in the country.
Veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare on Thursday attacked the government for not being serious about ridding the country of corruption and threatened to agitate again if a strong Lokpal bill was not passed to check corruption in the country.
"A corruption-free India is not in the mind of the government. We will continue working for the society. So, no giving up," Hazare, 74, told reporters here.
He was speaking a day after civil society activists met government representatives to thrash out the key issues in drafting the Lokpal bill. The meeting ended on a bitter note as there was no consensus, and a decision was taken that both the sides would present their versions of the bill to the cabinet.
Since, UPA and all political parties, coalitions and politicos, uniformly, desire that no Lok Pal should keep watch on their venal activities, they would allow the bill to lapse, if not outright rejection in Parliament and might even allow 'Annaji' to go the way 'Swamy Nigamanand' has been allowed to go!
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