Friday, April 22, 2011

How the Anna Hazare movement was born - Rediff.com News

How the Anna Hazare movement was born - Rediff.com News: "The India Against Corruption website gives the names of 20 leaders from different fields who started the campaign that has culminated in a joint committee to draft the Lokpal bill, which for the first time has members of the civil society along with elected representatives.


It claims that they 'have all come together to force/request/persuade/pressurise the government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill.' It has social activist Anna Hazare, yoga guru Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar, founder of Art of Living, Mahmood Madani, general secretary of Jamait Ulema-e-Hind and New Delhi-based Archbishop Vincent M Concessao. Along with dancers like Mallika Sarabhai and retired Jusitce D S Tewatia, there are RTI activists Arvind Kejriwal and S C Agrawal."

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