Anna Hazare and middle class India are synonym now .Any word uttered against the crusader Mr Hazare will be taken as statement against 50 million and fastest growing middle class of India who are now showing there power to the world by protesting peacefully in India .Countries like Japan and UK also had protests in favour of Anti corruption crusader.
Kisan Baburao Hazare is an activist who has been recognised for his work in developing and structuring his village Ralegan Siddhi.The government of India honoured the activist in 1992 by awarding him a Padma Bhushan award, but nine years later, the population of India has termed Hazare ‘Desh Ka Naya Gandhi’ for his successful campaign against corruption and his demand for a Lokpal Bill.
Today, tiffins will not be delivered to more than two lakh offices in Mumbai and Udaipur is also witnessing Bandh. Anna Hazare previously had to struggle for 11 years continuously against government for giving rights to citizens by making legislation for Right to Information, More Rights for the Gram Sabha, Regulating Transfers of the Government Officers, Prohibition and against Red Tapism.
Hazare staged a 98-hour hunger strike in April that led to UPA government allowing him and his supporters to help draft the new anti-corruption law, called the "Lokpal" bill.The proposed Lokpal bill creates a new ombudsman tasked with investigating and prosecuting politicians and bureaucrats, but Hazare wants the prime minister and higher judiciary to come under scrutiny.US State Departmentsaid last week that Washington counted on India "to exercise appropriate democratic restraint" when handling of anti-graft protests.
The crowds gathered to support Anna Hazare are spiritual, and there have been no incidents of violence so far in the country where political rallies turn violent easily.Supporters expressed happiness over the 73-year-old Gandhian's decision to come out from the prison complex following rounds of negotiations with the police and authorities to decide on agitation venue to undertake hunger strike.We will go with Anna and sit at Ramlila Maidan for as many days we can. We want Jan Lokpal Bill to kill this corruption "says most of the Middle class and even the Upper class along with the Uneducated who are hit proportionately with corruption .
