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- Shri KB "Anna" Hazare was never a part of the India Against Corruption andolan. IAC has never supported the demand for a Lokpal. IAC firmly opposes any Lokpal(s)
- India Against Corruption does not permit any usage of its name(s) and title(s) in connection with the 2010-2013 LokPal Bill agitations. All authors and reporters should use "2011 anti-corruption movement" etc. instead of "India Against Corruption" to describe those events.
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India Against Corruption ("IAC") is a people's organisation affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association which was founded on 3 October,1924 at Kanpur (United Provinces). It is today one of the secular "public" faces of the HRA movement as outlined in the Yellow Paper.
The IAC movement today is an apolitical, secular, socialist, Republican, conservative, revolutionary, Hindutva movement.
(NB: Hindutva is an ancient inclusive way of life inherently capable of harmoniously accommodating all faiths, religions and beliefs or non-beliefs).
IAC is exclusively dedicated to its ancient purpose of SWARAJ ie. expelling from Hindustan corrupting foreign colonial rulers along with their agencies and Indian lackeys.
Foreign Rulers: Sonia "Gandhi" &Co. Foreign Fixers: UIDAI, MNREGA, AID, Ford Foundation, George Soros Indian Lackeys: Anna Hazare &Co, Arvind Kejriwal &Co, Narendra Modi &Co |
India Against Corruption
 Sarbajit Roy Founded 03-10-1924 Ideology Poorna Swaraj Methods Revolutionary Membership Voluntary Politics" non-political HeadQuarter B-59 Defence Colony New Delhi 110024 Website www.indiaagainstcorruption.net.in |
ABOUT US:
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Appeal of a Mother to India's Youth
My dear children,
Hard is the path of patriotism, easy the uttering
of speeches. Those who bear service to the Motherland have to bear
countless torments
You too should make a deep study of the life and
experiences of the patriots. Only then can you find out the correct path
of life according to the present circumstances.
My blessings, "Become patriots"
Vidya Wati
(Mother of Shaheed Bhagat Singh) V&PO Khatkar Kalan Distt. Jullundur (Panjab) |
HRA's Kakori marytrs
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1 History
The Pink Paper constituting the original IAC organisation (then known as India Against Colonialism) was drafted under the chairmanship of Sachindranath Sanyal, and adopted along with the Yellow Paper, the Green Paper and the White Paper. Only the Yellow paper was made public, the White Paper emerged during the trial of the Kakori Bomb Conspiracy, and copies of the Pink and Green papers are preserved in the National Archives of India.
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On 17 April 1973, the moribund 'India Against Colonialism' body was revived and renamed as India Against Corruption by the HRA leader late Raj Narain for purposes of filing a Writ Petition before the Allahabad High Court.
In coordination with other simultaneous lok andolans in Gujarat (Nav Nirman andolan) and Bihar (Bihar Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti) the movements coalesced into the Sampoorna Kranti
(Total Revolution) struggle against Congress Party misrule under Lok
Nayak JayaPrakash Narayan (JP) which culminated in the national state of
Emergency in 1975 and when HRA was again banned as a terrorist
organisation.
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3 Prominent Members
The prominent members of the glorious past include Chittaranjan Das, Lala Hardayal, Raj Chandra Chaudhuri, Lala Kanshi Ram, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Jadugopal Mukhupadhyaya, Sachindranath Sanyal, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sachindra Bakshi, Keshab Chakravarthy, Dev Datt Bhattacharya, Bhagat Singh, Rajindra Nath Lahiri, Yogesh Chandra Chatterji, Kali Das Bose, Raj Narain, Lal Bahadur Shastri etc.
4 IAC today
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The current IAC (“India Against Corruption”) is an organised synergy
of India’s leading anti-corruption and transparency activists who met
between 13.Oct.2006-15.Oct.2006 at New Delhi and decided on the spot to
form a common platform to combat corruption collectively.
These included many eminent persons associated with the National Campaign for Political Reform in India (NCPRI) which was formed in 2002.
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Manoj Pai with Anna Hazare
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CJ. Karira with Anna Hazare
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| This pioneering anti-corruption people’s movement was thereafter reconvened by Sarbajit Roy on 21.Feb.2007 when he had received information of a “tout shop” (@ "Arvind-ki-dukaan’) erected by Arvind Kejriwal outside the Headquarters of the Central Information Commission ("CIC") at New Delhi. Kejriwal was then unemployed and was collecting citizens dissatisfied with the CIC to file RTI requests on behalf of his foreign sponsors. (photo of the illegal kiosk which Kejriwal bribed the local police Rs.2,000 to overlook). |
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| The name “India Against Corruption” was adopted on 26.Feb.2007 outside the CIC office in presence of many NCPRI activists after IAC’s convenor proposed it as a tribute to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement which had also initially used the name in the earlier struggle. Roy proposed that the permission to use the IAC name for a movement to monitor accounts of Common Wealth Games 2010 would be obtained from the “Hindustan Republican Army” (action wing of HRA) who were known to him. (photo of foundation day of new IAC movement : Lokesh Batra, Sarbajit Roy, Manish Sisodia, Shekhar Singh, Rekha Koli, Arvind Kejriwal, Veeresh Malik (photographer).) |
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Accordingly, IAC began filing a series of coordinated
Right to Information (RTI)) requests to elicit information from the
Government bodies and Games Organising Committees. This took place
between 2007 and 2010 and over 11,000 pages of highly damaging
information was gathered by a crack team of national activists headed by
Roy and Veeresh Malik from Delhi and Pune known as the "HumJanenge" (We
shall know).
From its humble beginnings, the IAC people’s movement
(‘Jan Andolan’) is today one of the best known international
anti-corruption movements.
5 Misuse of name "India Against Corruption"
The public at large is informed that India Against Corruption ("IAC") has never demanded a LokPal (Ombudsman) at any stage. The usage of IAC name was only approved to protest and litigate against the Common Wealth Games 2010 scams in 2010.
At about the same time another organisation "Gandhi
Sewa & Satyagraha Brigade - GSSB" had raised demand for Lokpal Bill
as well as the return of "Black" Money to India and the confiscation of
"black" assets in India. Under deceitful circumstances, GSSB's Lokpal Bill andolan was taken up by so-called "Team Anna", whereas their "Return Black Money to India" andolan was conducted by Baba Ramdev's "Bharat Swabhiman Trust".
NB: Later the GSSB (like HRA) publicly protested that they were deceived and betrayed by Team Anna..
On 2 Oct. 2010, "IAC-HQ" communicated to Sarbajit Roy their in-principle
nod that its revolutionary banner of "India Against Corruption" could
also be used for a wider popular movement against the excesses of
Congress misrule exemplified by massive CWG-2010 scams once the Games
concluded on 14 Oct. 2010.
On 18 Oct. 2010, it was proposed at a public meeting that a Delhi based NGO Trust "Public Cause Research Foundation" ("PCRF") having Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan, Manish Sisodia etc. as Trustees would act as common "Secretariat" for the diverse andolans
and to coordinate with media and for public relations etc. The same day
IAC-HQ communicated that its revolutionary banners and images of India Against Corruption
martyrs should not be sullied by association with dubious persons like
Aruna Roy or Harsh Mander and self-styled Swamis like Ramdev Yadav or
"Agnivesh" Vepa Rao who had been invited to the 18.10.2010 meeting. This
caused some ripples and Er.Sarbajit Roy withdrew from the andolan to consult with HRA.
On 26 Oct. 2010, a Facebook group page linked to Baba Ramdev titled as "Commonwealth Jhel"
then having 3,000 "likes", mischievously changed its name to "India
Against Corruption" to fool the public and soon reached 25,000 likes. A
few days later its owner Shivendra Chauhan sold its passwords to Team
Arvind to promote Arvind's new personality cult and stayed on to manage
it. Chauhan is now with the BJP.
Deceitful events of 14 November 2010 at Connaught Place
On 14 Nov. 2010, a complaint was lodged in Parliament Street Police station on behalf of "India Against Corruption" against the CWG scams. It only contained about 200 pages of the over 7,000 pages evidencing wrongdoing gathered by IAC using RTI from various Govt bodies, as the balance were withheld to PCRF by IAC due to mounting mistrust over the direction of the andolan. Another 150 pages were provided by activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal (seen beside Anna in pic). The Delhi Police did not register any cognisable offence on this complaint which was shoddily drafted on purpose to deceive the citizens through paid media.
That same evening a public rally was organised by Baba Ramdev's 'Bharat Swabhiman Trust' titled as "People's War Against Corruption" attended by Anna Hazare and some Muslim clerics like Maulana Syed Kalbe, whom Ramdev was promoting after the Deobandis had distanced from Ramdev. Arvind Kejriwal spoke for about 30 minutes on various national scams but hardly touched on CWG scam or the irrefutable scam evidence available to the andolan. IAC felt betrayed & deceived, but expressed its fury privately that the usage of its name and banners could not now be tolerated for attempts to dilute the focus of the protest and divert the public anger into cul-de-sacs like LokPal Bill.
Press Conference 01/Dec/2010 (NSCI)
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On 17 Nov. 2010, the PCRF unilaterally registered the domain name of
"www.indiaagainstcorruption.org" to call a press conference (arranged
and paid for by Bharat Swabhiman Trust of controversial medicine man Baba Ramdev) on 01 Dec. 2010 at "National Sports Club of India" (New Delhi).
At the meeting on 01 Dec. 2010, when asked about
status of the criminal Writ Petition to be filed by "India Against
Corruption" for non-registration of a FIR by Delhi Police on 14.10.2010,
Kiran Bedi feigned ignorance of it and mentioned that the LokPal Bill
agitation of Anna Hazare is now being conducted under the IAC banner
(which had actually never been previously discussed nor agreed with
HRA). Anna Hazare then also announced to the media that "India Against
Corruption" is the name for his LokPal andolan.
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On 07 Dec. 2010, Arvind also used the name "India Against Corruption" in his blogpost,
and used it to propagate the "Jan Lokpal Bill" agitation. The name of
IAC was also used thereafter to complete various formalities with the
local authorities for a rally on 30.Jan. 2011 on Gandhi's birthdate.
From this time onwards and with no explanations forthcoming from Arvind,
IAC-HQ withdrew permission to Team Arvind (then being tagged in the
media as "Team Anna") to use IAC's name and banners.
IAC has repeatedly clarified the mischievous reporting by media as under:-
- At no stage was PCRF authorised to represent itself to be India Against Corruption organisation, (and they did not)
- At no stage was Shri KB "Anna" Hazare even a primary member of
IAC let alone its leader, (and Anna has never claimed to be either)
- At no stage did any person connected with PCRF have any authority to use name of IAC for anything other than CWG-2010 agitation, (this resulted from temporary breakdown in communications as HRA is a private body with its own agenda).
IAC is not a Gandhian organisation and had
taken serious exception to misuse of its revolutionary banners to
promote pseudo-Gandhian philosophies during the popular agitations.
However, the paid media (such as Times of India) which was funding Team
Anna's andolan chose not to report it.
5.1 Events from 10 Nov. 2012
On 10 Nov. 2010 Kiran Bedi brought Anna Hazare to Delhi to lay claim to the India Against Corruption brand name.
It was mischievously reported in paid online media that Arvind Kejriwal
"who had left the movement 2 months back had agreed to give the IAC
name to his 'guru'". At the morning conference Anna posed as founder of
IAC and told reporters "The movement of India Against Corruption was
launched by me to fight corruption". "On the issue of using the name IAC, Hazare said if Kejriwal-led group gives it, he will take it.". Hazare also said earlier his photos were on IAC's banners.
Immediately on 10 Nov. 2012 evening, after a furious HRA reminded Kejriwal of his agreements, the following
press statement was issued on behalf of Team Arvind from the official
email ID of IAC <ash.ashwati2012@gmail.com>
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PRESS RELEASE / 10.November.2012
on behalf of The India Against Corruption national anti-corruption movement India Against Corruption has noted reports being published and circulated in various newpapers and media channels stating that Shri Arvind Kejriwal has agreed that the name "India Against Corruption" will be exclusively used by Shri Anna Hazare ji and funds will be collected in name of "India Against Corruption" in a bank account to be opened by Smt. Kiran Bedi & Ors. It has also been imputed therein that Shri Arvind Kejriwal would have no objection to Anna Hazare ji exclusively using the India Against Corruption name, banner etc. if he was asked to relinquish his rights, claims and titles in the India Against Corruption and IAC brand names in favour of Shri Anna Hazare ji.
It is clarified as follows:
1) The brand names "India Against Corruption" and
"IAC" and all exclusive titles and rights therein neither vests with
Shri Arvind Kejriwal nor with Shri Anna Hazare ji or with any other
definitely settled person or organisation.
2) India Against Corruption states that all graphics,
logos, and brand names of the India Against Corruption movement were
placed in the public domain and free of copyright a long time ago by
their authors and creators. In view of this ground reality it is very
well known to all concerned parties that there was never any copyrighted
trademark or logo for India Against Corruption as the same could not be
done.
3) No money has been collected till now only in the
name of India Against Corruption and certainly no duly accounted for
receipts have been issued in the name of India Against Corruption. For
anyone to say that somebody like Shri Arvind Kejriwal would relinquish
the rights and accounts in IAC to anybody else would necessarily imply
that funds meant for the IAC have been exclusively collected by him
until now. This is not the case. It is also very well settled in law
that a person can only relinquish or transfer his definite title and
defined shares.
4) Shri Anna Hazare ji was not associated with the IAC
movement initially, He associated himself later on. Smt Kiran Bedi and
Ms. Sunita Godara were also initial volunteers of the IAC movement, but
ranked pari-passu with Shanti Bhusha ji, Shri Prasant Bhushan, Shri
Arvind Kejriwal & many other selfless IAC volunteers. As such the
claim that Shri Arvind Kejriwal left the IAC movement 2 months back to
form a political party is false, mischievous and without any foundation.
Shri Kejriwal may issue his own personal statement concerning this.
5) India Against Corruption was never an hierarchial
organisation. That would be undemocratic and against everything IAC
stands for.
6) Shri Anna Hazare ji under the cover of people's
protests organised under the banner of India Against Corruption and
financed by duly accounts funds of the PCRF and other social
organisations has earned crores of rupees from sale of branded
merchandise like shirts, caps and other articles with slogans like "I am
Anna" by his volunteers. The IAC has not received even 1 rupee from
such sales which had nothing to do with IAC. The Indian public hopes
that accounts for such huge revenues would be rendered to them by the
people who expect to collect and manage IAC's funds in the future.
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5.2 Kiran Bedi leaves IAC formally
On 24 Dec. 2012, after repeated queries by IAC
District coordinators to account for large sums of money given to her in
cash for funding IAC movement, Kiran Bedi resigns from India Against
Corruption through an email posted to IAC public mailing lists.
5.3 Gen V.K Singh asserts IAC is still "firmly" with Anna
Bedi's stance keeps changing. IAC is firmly with Anna. Rally on 30th is of the masses and IAC is part of it.
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Anna is with IAC but the IAC is not with him
"... We would also request you to personally ensure
that no misuse of the India Tricolor takes place on the occasion and the
flag code is strictly adhered to. As a fauji I am sure you would
appreciate the sentiment we patriots attach to it. Shri.Anna Hazare is an old offender of regularly dishonoring the flag on such occasions and it is only our magnanimity that he and Dr Kiran Bedi are not behind bars for the same."
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Basic ingredients of IAC
Hello Gen VK
Since last 3 months Anna has done nothing for IAC and
has not contacted IAC coordinators. All he doing is creating confusion
in mind of public. Dos he have any action plan, if so what it is ? Now
there is no need or hope for Lokpal Bill. That phase of IAC movement is
over and nobody wants Lokpal Bill not even NCPRI.
We had also collected over Rs. 28 lakhs which was
given to IAC for Anna through Kiran Bedi. Team Arvind is not replying to
us how the money was used, they say we should contact Anna Hazare,
Kiran Bedi or anyone else we care in IAC as they were collecting funds
for PCRF not for IAC If you have any idea about our money, please inform
us or return the same to us immediately with interest.
Mohd Raaz Baig
IAC (NCPRI) Coordinator
IAC (NCPRI) Coordinator
Lot of confusion being created about IAC only by Kiran
Bedi because we're asking her about where all the money collected from
IAC West Bengal totaling more then 28 lakh disappeared.
Everyday she was changing her story not coming on
phone. A group of us come to Delhi and go to her house and basement
office in Udday Park. For 3 days she don't meet us and young girls in
her office tell us lies. We find that she is using the money into Anna's
new office which while rented by Vicky Donor producer was 5 lakh rupee
per month. The landlord is Congress worker and very close to Bedi. Then
we ask where the rent money is coming from, they tell some "anonymous"
donor has given 12 lacs for paying the rent of 1 lac per month.
There is no anonymous donation, it is stolen money of
poor people of Bengal and Kiran Bedi, Anna and VeekY are only Congress
persons and stealing our money. Howe many other states she has done same
cheating will come out in police investigation.
Mohd Raaz Baig
IAC (NCPRI) Coordinator
IAC (NCPRI) Coordinator
5.4 Anna Hazare drops claim to IAC brand name
Having fought a bitter battle with Arvind Kejriwal for
the India Against Corruption name, the new Team Anna will not work
under that banner any more. Anna Hazare's NGO in Ralegan Siddhi,
Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan Nyas, will henceforth be the platform
from which he and his team will hold programmes. The office at Sarvodaya
Enclave here, which had been the bone of contention between volunteers
and core team, will wind up by the end of this month. The Ralegan Siddhi
office, opened on January 12, will be the centre of the movement. A
call will be taken at a later date on a Delhi branch office, if
required.
It is curious that having wrested the name from Kejriwal, the new Team Anna is all set to drop the brand altogether.
6 Core Committee
IAC Core Committee meeting 03.09.2013
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IAC is managed by the Core Committee which regularly reports to Hindustan Republican Association ("IAC-HQ") through the National Convenor. Er. Sarbajit Roy (National Convenor) Mr. Veeresh Malik (Co-Convenor) Er. C.J. Karira (Co-Convenor) Mr. Manoj Pai Mr. Hitendra Parihar Mr. Muzib-Ur Rehman Er. N.S. Venkatraman Dr. Sandeep Gupta Mr. Harikumar Bharatiya |
7 Official statement on formation of Aam Aadmi Party
At IAC's Core Committee meeting on 03.09.20103 the following agreed statement was issued concerning deamalgamation of politically inclined persons fighting corruption under IAC's banner.
a) It was publicly announced on 02 August 2012 evening
by Sh. Arvind Kejriwal and his friends who were on an “indefinite fast”
under the banner of “India Against Corruption” that the national
anti-corruption movement would take a political
nature/turn including by forming a political party and contesting
elections.
b) This unilateral announcement by Arvind Kejriwal met
with considerable internal opposition within IAC movement (which is
ideologically against direct participation in politics). Arvind’s
announcement was viewed by IAC as a device to distract from the popular
dissatisfaction with demand for Lokpal Bill after overuse of methods
like satyagraha and repeated fasting (anshan) caused IAC to lose public support across India.
c) In the surcharged atmosphere, a series of public
disagreements between the “political” and “apolitical” groups of IAC
were being reported in the media affecting the IAC’s reputation. The
IAC’s social networking sites and mailing lists were also hacked,
manipulated and misused to wrongly project that the public mood wanted
IAC to go political. IAC members and the public at large were being
subjected to a barrage of propaganda and were tremendously confused by
the “split”.
d) IAC HQ decided that the movement shall remain
apolitical, and “Team Arvind” would exit by/on 2 October 2012 after
announcing the name of their party which would be different from India
Against Corruption’s. The cyber war, however, still continued.
e) It was in these circumstances that social activist
Er. Sarbajit Roy was inducted by IAC’s HQ on 17 Oct 2012 to resolve the
cyber warring and settle the issue of who would retain / use the India
Against Corruption brand, which was entrusted to him pende lis, while the funds collection issues were being simultaneously resolved.
f) On 26th October 2012 it was mutually
conveyed/agreed to IAC HQ that Arvind and his
faction would completely exit from IAC, give up their claims to the IAC
name and form their political party with a substantially different name
by 26th November 2012. It was also agreed that announcements and
campaigns made in the period
between 26.10.2012 and 25.11.2012 would not bind / devolve on the other.
g) It was agreed in principle that the funds collected
by Team Arvind till 25th Nov.2012 and with them could be held by them
and Team Arvind would be responsible for rendering / settling the
accounts to whoever required it.
h) From 26th Oct 2012 onwards Er. Sarbajit Roy is
nominated as “National Convenor” by IAC HQ to be the public face of the
IAC movement. Er. Roy in turn is selecting and nominating the eminent
citizens and RTI activists of India known for their
integrity and competence to be the IAC’s core committee members on a
voluntary basis.
i) Team Arvind have generally complied with their
assurances and on 24.Nov.2012 have floated their organization under name
and style of “Aam Aadmi Party” w.e.f 26.Nov.2012 and their erstwhile
IAC website www.indiaagainstcorruption.org was duly
disabled by them. Meanwhile on 02.Nov.2012 Er.Roy had booked and started the new IAC official website as www.indiaagainstcorruption.net.in
For operational and security reasons the official website is presently
redirected to the IAC’s Core Committee crabgrass portal - securely
hosted on Riseup’s activist platform.
8 Statement of National Convenor on Jan Tantra Morcha
The following public statement was issued on 16.01.2013 by IAC in reply to a request to support Gen (Retd.) V.K.Singh under banner of Jan Tantra Morcha after "Anna Hazare had left the IAC".
Pertaining to your remarks on Anna Hazare leaving IAC, Mr Anna Hazare was never a part of the IAC. He is a duffer and character actor who was massively overpaid for his walk on appearances. Like every cheap character actor he is never seen after sun-down ;-). In fact an inverse Keshto Mukherjee.
IAC had previously been outraged at juxtaposition of images of HRA's martyrs/shaheeds
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev etc, with those of Vivekananda and Gandhi at
public performances by Anna Hazare's troupe with obscene dances, public
disrespect to national flag and consumption of alcohol as at a function
held at Nashik on 24.May.2012 to raise money for Anna.
Pertaining to your remarks on Anna Hazare leaving IAC, Mr Anna Hazare was never a part of the IAC. He is a duffer and character actor who was massively overpaid for his walk on appearances. Like every cheap character actor he is never seen after sun-down ;-). In fact an inverse Keshto Mukherjee.
What was Anna Hazare before Team Arvind elevated him
to National status in 2011 ? In rural Maharashtra his travelling circus
is well known for its set routine for which they are paid between 50,000
and 1 lakh for their night shows.
Act 1: Some Comedian and poetry reading with cheap dialogues. Public starts getting in the mood and slowly opening their bottles.
Act-2: Tamasha / Lavani troupe with all Jhatak Mataks (see attached picture) . This carries on for 1 hour. Public is nicely sozzled by now and dancing in front of stage (and also on stage).
20 minute interval to cool crowd down.
Act-3: Some local politician / sponsor comes on stage and makes introductory remarks about Desh Bhakti / Bhagat Singh etc. and appeals to noble nature of crowd and imagery of Bharat Mata and brings on ANNA.
Act-4: ANNA THE GREAT makes his standard 20 minute speech including on evils of alcohol. This is the signal for the public to start weaving their way out from the venue.
Act-2: Tamasha / Lavani troupe with all Jhatak Mataks (see attached picture) . This carries on for 1 hour. Public is nicely sozzled by now and dancing in front of stage (and also on stage).
20 minute interval to cool crowd down.
Act-3: Some local politician / sponsor comes on stage and makes introductory remarks about Desh Bhakti / Bhagat Singh etc. and appeals to noble nature of crowd and imagery of Bharat Mata and brings on ANNA.
Act-4: ANNA THE GREAT makes his standard 20 minute speech including on evils of alcohol. This is the signal for the public to start weaving their way out from the venue.
All the while the venue is disrespectfully festooned with the Indian Flag at night.
And you want us to support such people whom your General associates with ?
And you want us to support such people whom your General associates with ?
Sarbajit
National Convenor
India Against Corruption jan andolan
National Convenor
India Against Corruption jan andolan
