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This is an archive article published on April 2, 2013

I don’t follow camera,it follows me: Anna

The ones who follow the camera will focus more on getting their pictures clicked; they can never do selfless job.

The ones who follow the camera will focus more on getting their pictures clicked; they can never do selfless job. Do such work that camera should follow you everywhere.

Social activist Anna Hazare said this,pointing to a few of his supporters who were busy in getting themselves clicked along with him. Anna rebuked them from the stage itself and said,“When I was 26,I had decided to do jan sewa and since then I have been working selflessly. I did not marry,I don’t know names of my brother’s kids. I am just a faqir who sleeps on the floor in a temple. I never followed any camera,instead the camera follows me everywhere.”

He added,“I am getting extreme happiness in doing jan sewa and will die doing the same.”

Anna said,“In Maharashtra,I exposed six MLAs,4,00 officers who had to pay for their corrupt practices. If I alone can do this,why cannot you all do the same? A supari was given to kill me,but the person refused to take that supari.”

“Every year,60,000 Army jawans retire. If I alone can do so much,60,000 can do much more,” he said. “I got Rs 55 lakh as cash prizes from different organisations at national and international level which I have kept in a trust. With the interest on that money,I marry off the needy girls every year.”

While Anna clarified that he never wanted to float a political party,a few supporters on the stage asked him to float a party. Ranjit Singh,one of the speakers and a SAD supporter,said,“Annaji and Gen V K Singh should clarify as whether they want to float a party or not. They must do so and field their candidates if a change is to be brought. The ruling alliance is with you in this task.”

Before addressing the public rally,Anna held a road show where he along with Gen (Retd) V K Singh was seen standing in the open truck. However,on Brown Road,the garbage machines welcomed the convoy as sewer cleaning exercise was on. In addition to this,low-hanging electricity wires near Luxmi Cinema forced Anna and his team to sit inside.

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There were not many people to greet them during the road show.

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