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PM appeals to Anna Hazare to end fast, Pranab to talk with Team Anna - The Times of India



NEW DELHI: In the first major breakthrough in the week-long standoff, the government on Tuesday appointed finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as its negotiator for talks with Team Anna Hazare over their demand for a strong Lokpal.


The Prime Minister, who held discussions with Mukherjee and senior ministers A K Antony and P Chidambaram, also wrote a letter to Hazare informing him of the initiative and appealed to him to end his fast, which entered the second week today.

He also told him that the government was concerned about his health.

The Prime Minister also wrote to Anna Hazare that the government will ask Lok Sabha Speaker if his version of Lokpal bill can be sent to the Standing Committee.

Announcing the government's initiative, Hazare's close aide Arvind Kejriwal said the Gandhian will decide as to who will represent his team in the talks with Mukherjee.

The ice-breaking development came during the first direct contact between the two sides at the residence of Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit when law minister Salman Khurshid met Kejriwal and discussed how to go about the issue.

"Just now Salman Khurshid has invited us for discussions. He has said that Pranab Mukherjee has been appointed by the government to talk to us.

"Anna is sleeping now. Once he gets up, he will decide as to who all will represent our team," Kejriwal told Hazare's supporters at Ramlila Maidan, where Hazare is fasting.

He also asked the crowd whether "we should go ahead with talks" and it responded with cheers.
 
Sonia, Pranab and Manmohan are the top leaders of AICC. I think Anna will go for the talk but not sure of the outcome. I think with give and take both sides should come to an end of the situation. We had enough protests and the country has awaken against corruption like never before.
 
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Corruption is not a ghost which comes at night when you are sleeping. There is no awaking from it.

Its a part and parcel of life in INDIA and to think that Lokpal bill when passed will dramatically reduce the levels of corruption so much so that it will be reflected in our daily lives is a simple way of looking at the situation.

My point is, even if we have strong lokpal, unless our society imbibes virtues like discouraging bribery/corruption etc nothing will work out. Those who are corrupt are imaginative enough to come up with work around always and I am sure as I type this post people somewhere are busy devising ways to circumvent it.
 
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Corruption is not a ghost which comes at night when you are sleeping. There is no awaking from it.

Who says corruption is not a ghost? and who says ghosts come when we sleep? The ghost of corruption is haunting Indian system/democracy for decades. The ghost cannot be seen but we can always feel it is here!!! lol

There was no such mass anti-corruption protest in last 64 years. This is I called 'awakening' of the public via Anna Hazare.



Its a part and parcel of life in INDIA and to think that Lokpal bill when passed will dramatically reduce the levels of corruption so much so that it will be reflected in our daily lives is a simple way of looking at the situation.

My point is, even if we have strong lokpal, unless our society imbibes virtues like discouraging bribery/corruption etc nothing will work out. Those who are corrupt are imaginative enough to come up with work around always and I am sure as I type this post people somewhere are busy devising ways to circumvent it.

If it was part and parcel of life than why it took so many years to make such protest? Where was the civil society? Why it did not took place 20 years back?
 

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