http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-05-13/news/29539876_1_anti-dalit-anna-hazare-lokpal-bill
Anna Hazare is anti-Dalit: Mayawati
May 13, 2011, 06.09pm IST
LUCKNOW: Social activist Anna Hazare has laid bare his anti-Dalit
mindset by not including even one member from the community on the
anti-graft Lokpal Bill drafting committee, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati said Friday.
Addressing a special function to mark the completion of four years of
her government here, she said: "Just as the Congress-led central
government displayed its anti-Dalit approach by not caring to include
a Dalit in the Lokpal Bill draft committee, so did Anna Hazare, by not
bothering to have a Dalit on his civil society panel, which reflects
his anti-Dalit mindset."
According to her, "the exclusion of Dalits from the draft committee as
a whole is a betrayal of the entire Dalit population of this country".
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"While I welcome the various anti-corruption movements across the
country, I am intrigued about the intent behind Anna Hazare's move to
use Uttar Pradesh as a launch pad for his movement.
"Even though Anna Hazare belongs to Maharastra, where there is no
dearth of scams, and likewise, there are scams in several other states
too, yet he launched his anti-corruption campaign in UP, where not a
single scam has taken place," the chief minister said.
"It appears that some people in Anna Hazare's civil society were
politically motivated and they had chosen UP as a battleground for
their campaign only under the influence of certain political groups.
"No wonder, the much hyped anti-corruption campaign is fast getting
reduced to an anti-Dalit exercise," she said.
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