About Anna Hazare and Jan LokPal Bill.. !

5 things to know about Anna Hazare and Jan Lok Pal Bill.. !

1. An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War
2. He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra
3. This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.
4. Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.
5. He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

Difference between Jan Lokpal Bill and Govt Lokpal Bill

Jan Lokpal Bill	Govt Lokpal Bill
Lokpal will have powers to initiate suo moto action or receive complaints of corruption from the general public.	Lokpal will have no power to initiate suo motu action or receive complaints of corruption from the general public. It can only probe complaints forwarded by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha or the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
Lokpal will have the power to initiate prosecution of anyone found guilty.	Lokpal will only be an Advisory Body with a role limited to forwarding reports to a "Competent Authority".
Lokpal will have police powers as well as the ability to register FIRs.	Lokpal will have no police powers and no ability to register an FIR or proceed with criminal investigations.
Lokpal and the anti corruption wing of the CBI will be one independent body.	The CBI and Lokpal will be unconnected.
Punishments will be a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of up to life imprisonment.	Punishment for corruption will be a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of up to 7 years.

Anna Hazare said to the governemnt 'Pass the Lokpal Bill or Leave'

The Anna Hazare camp on Sunday took its campaign to a strident new pitch, with the Gandhian leader delivering a “Lokpal bill lao ya jao (bring Lokpal bill or go)” call and warning of “unprecedented protests” if the government did not pass Team Anna’s version of the bill by August 30.

The escalation came on a day that saw crowd support for the protests swelling dramatically, with large turnouts at India Gate and Ramlila Maidan, and activists demonstrating outside the prime minister’s residence.

Efforts to resolve the standoff also got underway, with intermediaries meeting telecom minister Kapil Sibal late on Sunday evening. Veteran Maharashtra bureaucrat U C Sarangi and longtime Hazare associate Bhayyuji Maharaj met the fasting leader for around 20 minutes earlier in the day. They were later closeted with Kapil Sibal.

Sarangi and Maharaj had taken a summary of the government’s Lokpal bill to Hazare, but the activists dismissed it, saying it did not amount to any new proposals.

After the meeting with Kapil Sibal, campaign leaders said discussions were of a general nature and no proposal was conveyed to the government. Bhayyuji Maharaj said the talks were positive and both sides were flexible.

The government was looking for ways to accommodate the activists’ demands while insisting that the parliamentary process could not be short-circuited.

But the massive public turnout in support of Anna Hazare’s campaign put paid to the hope in some quarters that the protests would peter out.

As Hazare gave the call of ‘lao ya jao’ (pass the bill or leave) to the government, Sarangi and Bhayyuji Maharaj met the Gandhian with most of his aides absent. This was Sarangi’s second meeting with Hazare in the last two days.

On the sixth day of Hazare’s fast, about 80 people were detained for protesting near the PM’s residence. The agitation was not restricted to Delhi alone, with reports that coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal’s Kanpur residence was raided by protesters. Law minister Salman Khurshid was greeted by black flag-bearing Anna supporters in his Farukkhabad constituency.

In response to the government’s overtures, Team Anna said they were willing to talk and that a negotiator should be appointed by the government. While Arvind Kejriwal said the government should tell them whom to meet and when, Swami Agnivesh added that the government should introduce the Jan Lokpal bill in Parliament to create trust.

This is Corruption Vs Anna Hazare, not Govt. Vs Anna!

Anna Hazare refuses to come out and spends night in Tihar jail

After Anna Hazare's refusal to walk out, Tihar jail authorities allotted him a room to spend night in the jail, TV channels reported. Anna is continuing his fast in the jail.

The government on Tuesday was at sixes and sevens over Anna Hazare's steely determination to carry on with his indefinite fast despite his unexpected arrest and his equally sudden release in the face of mounting countrywide protests. Anna scornfully rejected his release, saying he would leave Tihar Jail only if the government unconditionally allowed his protest for a stronger Lokpal Bill. In any case, he said, he was fasting in Tihar.

The government's desperate attempt to cut its losses-releasing Anna within 12 hours of his arrest and seven-day judicial remand-failed badly as it was outwitted by the Gandhian and his growing band of supporters, who appeared to be thinking three steps ahead of government managers. Not only was it seen to be eating humble pie after Anna's arrest, it was nowhere close to easing its discomfiture.

In the city, there were spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight protests. A strike of auto-rickshaws has been called in Delhi on Wednesday as a mark of support for Hazare: a sure sign that his camp has now spread beyond the middle class. And everywhere, supporters waved the national flag, lending the movement a rare patriotic fervour.

Celebrations broke out across the city as news of Hazare's imminent release spread, with crowds raising victory slogans and candles twinkling on a cool evening after a rainy day.

Although both government and Congress kept their distance from Hazare's release, saying it was the decision of Delhi Police, the reversal of course was seen as simultaneously signalling confused thinking in the government as well as its diminishing options in the confrontation with the anti-corruption upsurge. Delhi Police, which works directly under the Union home ministry, has never before displayed the degree of autonomy government vested it with on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, senior ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal were at pains to argue that the government was as keen as Anna to combat corruption but could not agree with his methods. But the legalistic argument about Hazare defying prohibitory orders fell short of a political answer to his demands.

The current situation is even more precarious for the government than in April where a four-day fast brought the government to its knees. In Parliament, BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley said the government was snatching the right to protest while the Congress's political leadership was hiding behind the uniformed force. The CPM said the government had attacked the democratic right to peaceful protest.

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