{"id":10802,"date":"2011-05-18T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:05:06","slug":"anna-hazare-is-face-of-anti-corruption-kiran-bedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/anna-hazare-is-face-of-anti-corruption-kiran-bedi","title":{"rendered":"Anna Hazare is face of anti-corruption: Kiran Bedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10803\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/anna-hazare-is-face-of-anti-corruption-kiran-bedi\/kiran-bedi\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?fit=184%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"184,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kiran Bedi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?fit=138%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?fit=184%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10803\" title=\"Kiran Bedi\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?resize=184%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?w=184&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Kiran-Bedi.jpg?resize=138%2C150&amp;ssl=1 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>When the history of the anti-corruption movement is written for posterity, veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare&#8217;s face will be identified with the fight, says writer, social activist and former super cop Kiran Bedi.<\/p>\n<p>Bedi, who released the book &#8220;Anna Hazare: The Face of India&#8217;s Fight Against Corruption&#8221;, is part of Anna Hazare&#8217;s anti-corruption movement that saw him sitting on an indefinite hunger strike demanding for a more stringent anti-graft law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fast garnered wide public support and resulted in the formation of a 10-member committee, comprising civil society members and politicians, for drafting of a more stringent Jan Lokpal Bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work has started at the joint drafting commission of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The first draft of the was shocking,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next phase of action will depend on the kind of progress the drafting committee makes, she said. &#8220;I will be a part of it, have to see the bill through and keep a watch on it,&#8221; Bedi told.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She alleged that the government had hurriedly prepared the first draft of the bill last year before the G-20 summit in Seoul to present a &#8220;clean image of the government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Describing Hazare as the &#8220;Mahatma of India&#8221;, Bedi said: &#8220;Anna Hazare inspired the youth across caste and creed. He was like a spark, he touched a problem which was in everybody&#8217;s heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a privilege to see him, work with him and learn from him,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book, edited by Pradeep Thakur and Pooja Rana, and published by Pentagon Press, is an exhaustive study of the face of corruption in Indian polity and the role of a lone crusader, Anna Hazare, in cleaning it up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It traces the history of various abortive attempts to frame a strong anti-corruption bill that could deter people occupying public offices from polluting the domain of democratic governance in India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, it highlights the exasperation of the civil society with the clumsy attempts of public personalities to frame and at times, block the birth of such a law. It dips into the past of Hazare, who calls himself a &#8220;fakir&#8221;, a man with no family, no property and no bank balance. He lives in a small room attached to the Yadavbaba temple in Ahmednagar&#8217;s Ralegan Siddh village, 110 km from Pune.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Citing statistics of corruption in the society, noted writer and journalist Prem Shankar Jha, the guest of honour, said: &#8220;Nearly 28 percent of the members in parliament have criminal charges, nearly 44 percent of members in the Bihar government are corrupt and nearly 31 percent of the newly-elected Bengal legislators are corrupt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the history of the anti-corruption movement is written for posterity, veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare&#8217;s face will be identified with the fight, says writer, social activist and former super cop Kiran Bedi. 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