{"id":9969,"date":"2011-04-11T00:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2011-04-11T00:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:01:40","slug":"will-lose-deposit-if-i-contest-an-election-anna-hazare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/will-lose-deposit-if-i-contest-an-election-anna-hazare","title":{"rendered":"Will lose deposit if I contest an election: Anna Hazare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9970\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/will-lose-deposit-if-i-contest-an-election-anna-hazare\/veteran-social-activist-anna-hazare-14\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?fit=219%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"219,230\" 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=\"Veteran social activist Anna Hazare\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?fit=219%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9970\" title=\"Veteran social activist Anna Hazare\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?resize=219%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?w=219&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Veteran-social-activist-Anna-Hazare13.jpg?resize=142%2C150&amp;ssl=1 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>His five-day fast for a strong anti-graft law drew groundswell support across the country, but social reformer Anna Hazare feels that if he contested an election, he will lose his security deposit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I stand for election, I will lose my security deposit,&#8221; Anna Hazare said jest-fully answering a question at a press conference on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(People) Take Rs100 and vote, take bottle of wine to vote, an election costs Rs 6-7 crore,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Hazare stressed that electoral reforms can rectify this situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give the option of dislike, if all candidates are bad, then voters will not vote for anyone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His five-day fast for a strong anti-graft law drew groundswell support across the country, but social reformer Anna Hazare feels that if he contested an election, he will lose his security deposit. &#8220;If I stand for election, I will lose my security deposit,&#8221; Anna Hazare said jest-fully answering a question at a press conference on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2892,1618,2771,3010],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-anna-hazare","tag-contest","tag-election","tag-lose-deposit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will lose deposit if I contest an election: Anna Hazare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"His five-day fast for a strong anti-graft law drew groundswell support across the country, but social reformer Anna Hazare feels that if he contested an election, he will lose his security deposit.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/will-lose-deposit-if-i-contest-an-election-anna-hazare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will lose deposit if I contest an election: Anna Hazare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"His five-day fast for a strong anti-graft law drew groundswell support across the country, but social reformer Anna Hazare feels that if he contested an election, he will lose his security deposit.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/will-lose-deposit-if-i-contest-an-election-anna-hazare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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