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## [OS] INDIA - Profile: Indian activist Anna Hazare

Released on 2012-09-03 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1453110
Date | 2011-08-19 01:57:59
From | clint.richards@stratfor.com
To | os@stratfor.com
List-Name | os@stratfor.com

From the look of this guys jowls a couple of weeks of not eating might not
be a terrible thing. [CR]
Profile: Indian activist Anna Hazare
Last Modified: 18 Aug 2011 22:21
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/08/2011818112830580586.html
Anti-corruption campaigner Kisan Baburao, popularly known as Anna Hazare,
has emerged as one of the biggest heroes for middle class Indians today.
Although he has been involved in anti-graft programmes in his home state
of Maharashtra for decades, Hazare was only catapulted to national fame in
April, when his highly publicised fast-unto-death galvanised people across
the nation on the problem of corruption.
His hunger strike came at an opportune time; when India's federal
government was already under attack from opposition parties over a series
of scandals that cost the state close to $40bn.
Many Indians found a common cause in Hazare's call for an anti-corruption
ombudsman, known as Jan Lokpal Bill. After the success of the April hunger
strike, "Anna" is a household name.
His supporters now ranges from Bollywood stars to former bureaucrats and
includes many prominant social activists.
But others have been wary of Hazare's proposed ombudsman, and have termed
the concept "draconian and overarching".
Even Santosh Hegde, a retired judge and an aide to Hazare, acknowledged he
had "objections" to certain clauses in the bill.
Hegde is said to disgree with its directives to the judiciary, inculding
the provision of life imprisonment as punishment under the Prevention of
Corruption Act, among other issues.
In 1991, Hazare launched the People's Movement against Corruption
(Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aandolan), a grassroots campaign to fight graft
in Ralegan Siddhi, his home village in Maharashtra state.
In 1995, his campaign forced the then-state government of Maharashtra to
drop two ministers from its cabinet on corruption allegations.
In 2003, his hunger strike against four tainted ministers forced the state
government to form a commission to probe his allegations.
Hazare's arrest
Hazare's arrest this week, one day after the 65th anniversary of India's
independence on August 16, infuriated his supporters and led to
spontaneous protests across the country.
Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, told parliament Hazare's intention
to fast indefinitely to push for reform was a direct challenge to the
government's authority.
"The path he has chosen is totally misconceived and fraught with grave
consequences for our parliamentary democracy," Singh said.
Today, Hazare, 74, is being compared with India's biggest icon of
non-violence and the struggle for freedom, Mahatma Gandhi.
But Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, has pointed to differences in
the way the two leaders have used fasting as an instrument of protest.
"Hazare's fast is different because Bapu's [Gandhi's] fast was to reform
an adversary into a friend, while Anna's fast is against an enemy. It is
like a me-versus-you kind of thing," Tushar Gandhi told India's Press
Trust of India news agency.
Salil Tripathi, an Indian journalist based in London, wrote in
www.thedailystar.net: "And remember, Hazare is no angel. Hazare wants to
eradicate the consumption of alcohol in the village where he has worked,
and when people have defied that, his followers have meted out corporal
punishment.
"His views on women are patronising and chauvinist, and his methods
frequently un-Gandhian. While claiming to be non-partisan, he has become a
political player, with politicians from the opposition Bharatiya Janata
Party backing him strategically."
Hazare, a former army driver, is known for improving the economy and
environment of his village. In 1992, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the
third-highest civilian award, for his work.
In the early 2000s, Hazare led a movement in his home state that forced
the state government to pass a stronger Maharashtra Right to Information
Act. The campaign later formed the basis of the federal Right to
Information Act adopted in 2005.
Hazare, who has never married, once was reported to have attempted suicide
because he was frustrated with life. Thankfully, however, that one
lifeline has infused new life to the anti-corruption movement in the
country.
But he has not been far from controversy. In April, he praised Narendra
Modi, a right-wing politician, accused to have been involved in communal
riots in the state of Gujarat.
--
Clint Richards
Strategic Forecasting Inc.
clint.richards@stratfor.com
www.stratfor.com