ANNA HAZARE

All you wanted to know about Anna Hazare

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WHO IS HAZARE ?
• Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare, popularly known as Anna
Hazare, is a social activist who is especially recognized for
his contribution to the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a
village in 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, Anna Hazare has 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 OF HAZARE
 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.
 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 financial problems.
IN THE 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 mid-1970s he was involved in a road accident
while driving but he survived.
RIGHT TO INFORMATION MOVEMENT
 In the early 2000s, Anna Hazare led a movement in
Maharashtra state, which forced the Government of
Maharashtra to repeal the earlier weak act and pass a
more stronger Right to Information Act, which was later
considered as the base document for the Right to
Information Act 2005 (RTI), enacted by the Union
Government.
 It also ensured that the President of India assented to this
new act.
MAHARASHTRA STATE GOVERNMENT
ARRESTS HAZARE !
 Anna Hazare was arrested in 1998 during Shiv Sena-BJP
rule in Maharashtra when a defamation suit was filed
against him by then Maharashtra Social Welfare minister
Babanrao Golap of Shiv Sena.
 He was released following public uproar.
LOKPAL BILL MOVEMENT
 In 2011, Anna Hazare led a movement for passing a stronger
anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian
Parliament.
 As a part of this movement, N. Santosh Hegde, a former
justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of
Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the
Supreme Court along with the members of the India Against
Corruption movement drafted an alternate bill, named as the
Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill) with more
stringent provisions and wider power to the Lokpal
(Ombudsman).
 Hazare has started a fast unto death from 5 April 2011 at
Jantar Mantar in Delhi, to press for the demand to form a
joint committee of the representatives of the Government
and the civil society to draft a new bill with more stronger
penal actions and more independence to the Lokpal and
Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand
was rejected by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan
Singh