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Hazare, others to call off fast Friday;
propose 'political alternative'
Thursday August 02, 2012 05:54:59 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Anna Hazare and his team members Thursday announced they were
calling off their indefinite fast against corruption at 5 p.m.
Friday and said they would seek a referendum on forming a
"political alternative".
Hazare, who has been on fast at Jantar Mantar since July 29,
announced he and Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai
were calling off their fast.
Hazare told the gathering that the government was not listening to
them and was not willing to pass the Jan Lokpal bill, and asked
them if the people wanted a political alternative. The crowd
cheered "yes, yes."
Hazare then said: "The time has come to give a political
alternative".
He added: "There is no harm in giving a political alternative, but
only those people should go to parliament who love the country and
have a clean background."
Hazare said he will "not join the system but will support it from
outside".
He added that if he decides to support a political alternative,
"then I should be sure that no corrupt person has reached
parliament. If you want to change the government, then we need to
plan and make a system".
He also proposed a kind of a referendum on the political
alternative, saying the activists would seek the opinion of 6.5
lakh gram sabhas, or village councils, on whether they would
support such a move. And "if four lakh gram sabhas vow to support
us, then we can give an alternative."
India Against Corruption media coordinator Aswathi Muralidharan
told IANS: "The government is insensitive...it is not passing the
Lokpal bill or setting up special teams to probe corruption
charges against 14 ministers in the central government."
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