Social activist Anna Hazare is set to lunch agitation over Lokpal bill and to fight for farmer’s interest. He would undertake a fast from March 23 in Delhi with his core committee he is forming.
Hazare had chosen March 23 to launch the agitation as it happens to be the ‘Shaheed Diwas’ (Martyr’s Day).
Anna had asked his ‘20 members’ of the committee to issue a written undertaking that no member will join a political party or contest any elections in the future. He is demanding to sign the affidavit on the call of his experience, when leaders like Arvind Kejriwal joined the Lokpal agitation in 2011-2012, but then, subsequently, parted ways with Hazare, launching a political outfit going on to become chief minister of Delhi.
He has formed 20 members ‘core committee’ took from the different parts of the country. It is expected that the count of members may expand the committee to around 45 members in the second phase, just before the protest. He is now seeking to ensure the new team of volunteers keep his Lokpal agitation moving forward.
Hazare has been demanding the formation of Jan Lokpal to keep a check on corruption, he informed to the media. Earlier in a press conference in Delhi, he accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government of not being serious about fighting corruption.
