Crusade against corruption – Support Anna Hazare
Vinod Kumar Gupta, 08-Apr-2011
Crusade against corruption – Support Anna Hazare
Friday April 8, 2011
Patiala

“It is time the entire country joins anna Hazare in his fight against corruption” said Padamjit Singh Chairman All India Power Engineers federation.

Singh said that Anna Hazare has adopted the Gandhian mode of protest. Dissent is the essence of democracy and article 19 of the Constitution of India gives the fundamental right to every citizen for speech, expression and to assemble peacefully without arms. Section 51 A of the Constitution contains the fundamental duty of every citizen of India to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom.
Anna Hazare has acted in the highest democratic tradition and in the spirit of the Constitution to focus the anguish of the ordinary citizen and particularly the poor people who are directly hit by corruption. If a child is dying of hunger in Orissa or Bihar, It is because the development funds for reducing poverty have been plundered on the way. Anna Hazare is the conscience of such victims who have suffered over the decades.
Hazare has taken the utmost act of courage and determination to push through a bill that would give an independent body the power to punish corruption -- even in the Prime Minister’s office. Across the country a movement has exploded, driving a media storm of pressure that’s engulfing government
Corruption in politics has become a plague across our country; it is draining our resources and demoralizing our nation. This bill would go a long way to deterring those that steal and undermine the public good.