ANNA HAZARE

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Kishan Bapat Baburao Hazare, popularly known as Anna Hazare, is a social activist from India. He has also received many other awards, including the Government of India's Padma Shri Award (1990) and the Ramon Magsaysay International Award for Excellence in Social Service. Hazare, who has only a middle school education, has been awarded a doctorate by the Dindigul Gandhigram Fictional University.

 

Anna Hazare is another popular leader like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who won the hunger strike as a weapon. He is generally considered to follow Gandhian ideals

 

Life and struggles

 

Kishan Bapat Baburao Hazare was born on January 15 in Bhingar village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra to a poor working class family. Although his father Babu Rao Hazare owned five acres of farmland, he lost his farm and his house fell into poverty. Hazare was forced to go to his family home in Raligansiddi village. She studied till seventh class with the help of an aunt who had no children. He was forced to drop out of school due to poor financial condition. He went down to sell flowers for a living. Joined the Army during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. There he became a truck driver. The posting was in Punjab. I read the works of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinobabhave at that time. During the Indo-Pak war of 1965, there were two fatalities.

 

He retired from the army in 1975 and joined the community. He succeeded in getting the villagers to volunteer to alleviate poverty and drought in his home village of Raligansiddi. The stimulus was Gandhian ideals. He used his own savings for the development of the village. And construction of canals and bunds. Arrangements have been made to collect rainwater. Thus it succeeded not only in solving the drinking water shortage in the village but also in enabling irrigation for agriculture. Electricity supply to the village was made possible by solar energy. Raligansiddi, a backward poor village, was on the path of progress. Hazare also succeeded in keeping the people of the village away from the menace of alcoholism. The school was established and the evil practice of untouchability was eradicated. The vast majority of the villagers loved and respected him like his elder brother. Thus Kishan Baburao Hazare became their 'Anna' Hazare.

 

Hazare was one of the pioneers in enforcing the RTI Act as part of the fight against corruption in public life.

 

In 1991, under the leadership of Anna Hazare, the Anti-Corruption People's Movement (Anti-Corruption Movement) spread across Maharashtra to district levels.

 

In 1995-1999, Anna Hazare succeeded in removing three corrupt people from the Shiv Sena-BJP cabinet in Maharashtra. The ministers who had to resign were Shashikant Sutar, Mahadev Sivashankar and Baban Golap. In 2003, Anna Hazare went on a hunger strike to denounce the Congress-NCP cabinet ministers Suresh Dada Jain, Nawab Malik, Vijayakumar Gavit and Padam Singh Patil as corrupt.

 

Jana Lokpal agitation

 

He went on a hunger strike from April 5, 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest against the government's failure to heed the demand that the Jana Lokpal Bill be introduced in Parliament to prevent corruption in public life. He received nationwide support. In addition to ordinary people, including students, housewives and young people, even businessmen and film stars came forward to support Hazare's anti - corruption struggle. There were demonstrations in other parts of the country as well. In addition, millions of Indians inside and outside the country announced their support for Hazare through friendly websites on the Internet and accelerated the campaign for a comprehensive Lokpal Bill. On April 9, he called off his hunger strike after the government issued a statement acknowledging that 50 percent of the committee drafting the bill, as well as the committee's co - chair, were not from the political arena.

 

Award

 

Anna Hazare has turned down the 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize instituted by the Delhi-based Indian Institute of Planning and Management.

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