Intellectuals stage fast in support of Hazare
April 8, 2011
DC Correspondent
WARANGAL
April 7: In support of social activist Mr Anna Hazare's fast unto
death in Delhi, city intellectuals, including professors, advocates
and TJAC leaders, sat on a day-long hunger strike at Ambedkar centre
on Thursday.
The hunger strike, led by Prof. K. Venkatanarayana of Kakatiya
University, evoked good response from city's intellectuals as many
including Prof. Vidyavathi, former KU vice-chancellor, reached the
venue to express solidarity for their cause. Terming Mr Anna Hazare's
fight for enactment of a strong anti-corruption law as revolutionary,
the intellectuals criticised both the ruling Congress and the
Opposition BJP for keeping the Jan Lokpal Bill pending for decades.
"The Jan Lokpal Bill has been pending for 42 years as successive
governments at the Centre deferred it nine times," said Prof. K.
Murali Manohar, ex-SDLCE director and founder of Academy of Backward
Caste Development and Empowerment, who sat on hunger strike near
Ambedkar statue despite his age and frail condition. Critical at the
recent high profile scams, the intellectuals lamented that the
government's draft Lok Pal bill did not have enough teeth to prosecute
corrupt ministers and public representatives.
"The present shape of the Lok Pal Bill needs to be changed as it has
no autonomy as enjoyed by constitutional bodies like Election
Commission of India or the Supreme Court," added Prof. Manohar, who
wanted the government Lok Pal Bill drafters to take a cue from
anti-corruption laws enacted by Scandinavian countries like Norway,
Sweden and Finland. Meanwhile, inspired by Mr Anna Hazare's fight
against corruption, Prof. K. Venkatanarayana has vowed to form
anti-corruption committees at all mandals on the lines of TJAC run
committees in mandals.
"With support from legal experts and RTI activists, we will train
youths on how to file applications under Right to Information Act,"
said Prof. Venkatanarayana, who termed Mr Hazare's fight against
corruption 'as the greatest ever for protection of Indian democracy
since Jayaprakash Narayan's fight against the government in 1975'.
Among those on hunger strike were D. Janardhan, vice-chairman of TJAC
Warangal, S. Ramanathan, BC Advocates' Association leader and others.
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