Get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed or go,Hazare tells govt

Hazare accused the government of 'betraying' the civil society on the Lokpal issue.

Anna Hazare on Sunday warned of ‘unprecedented revolution’ in the country if Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed by August 30 and said the Government will have to “either get the Bill passed or go.”

Accusing the government of ‘betraying’ the civil society on the Lokpal issue,Hazare,whose fast entered the sixth day on Sunday,told a large gathering of his supporters at the Ramlila Maidan here that the government is not ‘honest’ in its intent to fight corruption.

“If the Government does not get the Lokpal Bill passed by August 30 there would be an unprecedented revolution in the country by the people…. The government will have to either get the Bill passed (in Parliament) or go,” he said after a large number of people marched from India Gate to the Maidan expressing solidarity with him.

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Calling his campaign against corruption as the beginning of “second struggle for Independence”,the 73-year-old Gandhian asked the youth to keep the “flame of revolution burning whether Anna is alive or not.”

Noting that he has been fighting against corruption for the past 20 years,Hazare said the government betrayed them on the Lokpal issue despite constituting a joint committee for drafting the Bill.

“They constituted a joint committee after my fast in April. But nothing came out of that meeting despite talking for two months. They betrayed the civil society…. The government’s intention to fight corruption is not noble,” he said.

Recalling the events leading to his arrest by the Delhi Police on Tuesday before he was to launch his indefinite fast at J P Park,Hazare said the police came and took him and some of his associates and later told them that they have been arrested.

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