Bhopal: Taking cue form Anna Hazare's fast, a retired bank employee has announced to sit on fast against 'corrupt' revenue department officers, who cancelled land deed that was in the name of his freedom fighter father.
Subhash Chandra Dubey (61) says he will start a peaceful saytagraha and his fight will be for the victims of revenue department.
He has been fighting a lone battle against the revenue officials after the department cancelled permanent land ownership right (patta) issued to his late freedom fighter father Ramlal Dubey in 2003.
The state government had given 10.41 acres land to late Dubey for his contribution in freedom struggle on December 29, 1975 in village Jinwari, teshsil Timrani of district Harda.
"My father fought for liberating the country from the colonial rulers but in his life time, after fighting almost for three decades, he could not get justice from the government," say Dubey.
"Now I continue with my father's legacy", he said adding "if I had paid even one fourth of the amount I spent on writing letters to the authorities, getting the illegal patta cancellation order I would have my work done".
"But", he affirmed, "being a true son of the father, even if I die fighting this battle I will not bribe anyone, come what may". Dubey has a big collection of copies of the letters he wrote to elected representatives and the government officials and their replies. From Sarpach to President of India, he took up the matter with every one.
"I will sit on saytgraha in front of the tehsil office in the Harda where injustice was done to my father for all those victims of revenue department".
Congress Union Minister Supports Anna, To Launch Anti-Corruption Campaign in Sangli
Mumbai:Congress leader and Union minister of state for coal, Pratik Patil, said the party would suffer in the ensuing elections to local self-government bodies in Maharashtra due to the anti-corruption movement launched by Gandhian, Anna Hazare.He was speaking at the party convention for the region comprising Pune, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur districts organised in the city.
Wondering whether the party activists would be able to answer them convincingly, Patil said citizens will raise questions regarding scams exposed in the central government following Hazare’s anti-graft campaign.
Supporting Hazare’s movement, the minister said that he would launch a campaign from October 2 to free Sangli, his home district, from the menace of corruption. “Politicians are blamed for corruption but they are few in numbers. The origin of corruption is among the public and it should be nipped in the bud,” he said.
The state would go to polls for 10 municipal corporations, 27 zilla parishads and numerous panchayat samitis under them, as well as 168 municipal councils by the end of this year and early in 2012. The convention was organised in the city to assess opinions of party office-bearers in Western Maharashtra.
The state would go to polls for 10 municipal corporations, 27 zilla parishads and numerous panchayat samitis under them, as well as 168 municipal councils by the end of this year and early in 2012. The convention was organised in the city to assess opinions of party office-bearers in Western Maharashtra.
Anna Effect: More Citizen Candidates In Poll
Mumbai: The effect of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign combined with the Mumbaikar's resentment of apathy among elected leaders is slowly but surely changing the city's political landscape. More and more citizens' groups and residents' associations are coming forward to put forth their citizen candidate to contest the February 2012 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections . So far, 30 citizen candidates across the city have expressed their interest in standing for the civic elections.
Taking a cue from Juhu's Adolf D'Souza—India's first citizen-nominated corporator in the 2007 municipal pollsthe New Link Road Residents' Forum will adopt a similar model. Citizens are planning to put forward one of their own candidates from Borivli and Dahisar regions, and have already approached the Juhu corporator to help them map out a plan of action. "We have started receiving names of probable candidates who are not affiliated to any political party, and will remain Independent even after the elections ," said Harish Pandey, a member of the New Road Residents' Forum, Borivli. "Those who have reasonable experience working on civic-related issues are eligible to contest. Potential candidates' profiles will be scrutinized, and the forum will select the best candidate for the elections," he added.
To forestall acrimony among those who don't make the cut, all potential candidates will have to sign an undertaking that they will work together towards the election of the chosen candidate. The idea of the undertaking, said forum members, is to ensure that citizens' interests are the priority, and to put up a united front in the BMC election against representatives from political parties.
D'Souza said: "When people approach me for advice, I tell them that all we need is a person of integrity. Some experience in civic and social issues will come in handy." He added that in Juhu, citizens ensure that the corporator's funds are used judiciously.
Pandey said it's important for citizens to be proactive and work with the corporator to see how funds are being used. "Citizens have to approach the corporator to discuss their priorities . Accordingly funds can be spent on roads, gardens, promenades, etc," he said.
0 complaints after Anna Movement at ACB, Mumbai !!!!
Either the Anna-effect has already deterred bribe seekers in the city, or, so caught up have people been in their fight against corruption that they have actually forgotten to report actual cases of graft. It was expected that after the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement gained momentum, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) would be flooded with complaints.
On the contrary, complaints from citizens have been few and far between. Compared to other centres in ACB's jurisdiction, the city unit has noticed an interesting trend. Ever since the anti-corruption movement gained momentum, not a single complaint was reported to ACB. ACB officers, however, said this had not stopped them from gathering information about possible corruption in various government offices. They said even if complainants did not go to them, suo motu complaints could be registered.
On an average, the ACB receives 25 to 30 complaints in a month, but from August 15 not a single complainant has come to them regarding bribe demands so far. "All the other units, including Satara, Sangali, Solapur, Kolhapur and Pune rural, showed no such trend, but only in the city there was a period in which we noticed not a single complaint had been reported to us," said Superintendent of ACB Sarang Aawad.
The magic of anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare has infiltrated every inch of society.
The past 13 days have been all about him. From Anna merchandise to Anna parties to Anna games to even people stripping in the name of Anna, the Anna frenzy that he has created has been unparalleled. And adding to this is the latest craze of parents naming their newborns Anna.
According to sources, in the last one week, four women admitted in the maternity ward of Lok Nayak Hospital have named their newborns after Anna Hazare. A source at Vinayak Hospital says that between August 16 to 22, out of the five deliveries that took place in the hospital, three newborns were named Anna on their birth certificates.
The Anna-naming fever seems to be particularly high in Bihar and MP, where as many as 200 babies have been named after him. In Darbhanga, Bihar, nearly 100 infants were named Anna in the past one week. Surprisingly, even girls are being named Anna.
According to sources, ever since Anna went on his anshan, many parents, cutting across caste, creed and gender have taken a fancy to naming their babies after the Gandhian. In Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh, 22 newborns have been named after the anti-corruption crusader.
Kumar Viswas, a key Anna aide, who controlled and managed the stage at the Ramlila Maidan for 12 days, announced on stage, day before yesterday, that Team Anna has been receiving letters from all over the world saying that they are naming their babies Anna, in order to show their support to the anti-corruption campaign. "It is overwhelming to know that people across India are naming their newborns after Annaji. This shows how emotionally attached the common man of today is with this movement," Viswas said.
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