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| Full text of Advani's blog on Anna |
| Full text of Advani's blog on Anna Hazare
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| INDIA
, 12-April-2011
5:44:10 AM |
| After witnessing the World Cup Final at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, on April 2nd, I had written that it was not just the thousands at the stadium who were exploding with joy, the entire country felt ecstatic and proud the moment they heard that India had won the cup. I am not surprised that reporting Government's assurance to Anna Hazare on the basis of which the veteran has called off his fast, the Times of India's front page Banner Headline says: INDIA WINS AGAIN !
On the evening of Friday April 8, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee rang me up to apprise me about the terms of the deal government had been able to work out with Hazare. He said Government has assured Anna that the Lokpal Bill as drafted by the proposed Committee, would be introduced in Parliament during its Monsoon session. My comment was: Let it be passed in that session. Even if the Bill is to be referred to the Standing Committee, it can be finalized and passed. Every one is keen that there be no delay in tackling corruption. In fact Government should be conscious that the dimensions of corruption have become so frightening that the assault on this malady has to be multi-pronged.
A meeting of political parties should be convened to discuss this issue particularly in the context of black money and curbing money-power in elections.
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Panic-stricken by the groundswell of public support Anna Hazare's fast against corruption had received, Government finally succumbed. But as India Today remarked, not before "showing its mean face"!
The report, by Kay Benedict and Ashish Sinha, went on to say: 'Liberally loading its smear brush with saffron, a senior party leader fumed: "He is not a Gandhian, but an RSS agent.'
Anna Hazare's own comment about this charge was: "Those who wear coloured glasses see everything in one colour."
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