Anna Hazare to launch Jan Lokpal stir from March 23 next year

Anna Hazare to launch Jan Lokpal stir from March 23 next year

Mumbai, November 29 : Social activist Anna Hazare will launch an agitation over Jan Lokpal and farmers’ issues in New Delhi on March 23 next year.
Hazare, who has been the face of the Lokpal movement, said they have chosen March 23 to launch the agitation as it happens to be the ‘Shaheed Diwas’ (Martyr’s Day).
“This will be a satyagrah for Jan Lokpal, farmers’ issues and poll reforms,” Hazare said, addressing a meeting of his supporters at Ralegan Siddhi village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district last evening.
The veteran Gandhian said he has been writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on these issues but hasn’t received a response.
“At least 12 lakh farmers have committed suicide in the last 22 years. I want to know the number of industrialists committing suicide during this period,” he said.
Hazare has been demanding the formation of Jan Lokpal to keep a check on corruption.
He went on a 12-day hunger strike in 2011 after which the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government accepted the demand in principle. Hazare later launched a fast, which enjoyea huge popular support across the country. The UPA government later passed the Lokpal bill. An aide of Hazare today said the Modi government has not appointed a lokpal. “The reason given from the government’s side is technical,” he said.

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