Indian anti-graft crusader threatens to fast again
Updated: 2011-10-04 17:06
(Xinhua)
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![]() Veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare adjusts a cloth given to him by the members of a Sikh community on the 12th day of his fast at Ramlila grounds in New Delhi August 27, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]
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Hazare blamed the Congress party for not passing the Jan Lokpal Bill and threatened that he would go to five election-bound states in the country and ask people not to vote for the party in the upcoming assembly polls.
He said that he would resume his agitation for an effective Lokpal Bill with the October 13 Lok Sabha by-poll in the northern Indian state of Haryana's Hisar town, and said he would campaign against the party during the election.
"I will appeal to voters in poll-bound Hisar in Haryana not to vote for Congress as it deliberately did not pass Jan Lokpal Bill, " the anti-graft crusader told the media in his native village, some 50 kms from the western city of Pune. "This is a political movement, but we will not enter politics, we will fight for corruption-free politics."
Hazare also announced that he would begin his tour of five election-bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur between October 13 and 15.
"If the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed in the Winter Session, then I will name the Congress and ask people not to vote for it in the Assembly polls scheduled in five states next year," he said.
The veteran Gandhian also reiterated that the members of his team would not enter politics or contest elections.
Anna's core team member Arvind Kejriwal also ruled out any possibility of the team members entering politics.
"We are not apolitical. This is a political movement, but we will not enter politics and fight elections," he said.
Having staged a highly dramatic anti-corruption demonstration by going on fast in public and won massive support from all walks of life in the country, Hazare withdrew his 12-day-long fast unto death in the national capital in August, following assurances from the government that three of his main demands in the run-up to the Lokpal Bill would be considered.
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