Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Indian PM asks to help rival anti-graft quickly stop

Agence France-Presse. New Delhi

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his political rivals have Wednesday with appeal to social activist Anna Hazare, his anti-corruption hunger strike, now in the second week to retrieve.

But a spokesman for the ailing 74 years activist said he kept to his demands and would his stop just quickly, when the Government decided on his own hard version of an anti-corruption law, table.

'Then, Anna his hunger strike is closed' Arvind Kejriwal told reporters.

The joint call followed a meeting in the Singh sought the help of all political parties, the confrontation to end nationwide support for the Government on the back foot, Hazare that after a string graft scandals.

'We unanimously its have appealed to Anna Hazare quickly to do this,' said Sitaram Yechury, head of the Communist Party of India, reporters for the all parties meet in New Delhi.

The parties said in a statement that they had agreed that the final version of the proposed draft is to "for a strong and effective Lokpal (anti-corruption Ombudsman) supported by a broad national consensus were".

Hazare, who since August 16 has not eaten, said that the version that is too weak submitted by the Government.

Singh had offered a number of concessions on Tuesday team, rejected also by the activist, a guarantee that the whole Parliament would discuss his version of the legislation.

"No one can accept such claims - Parliament is untouchable," said the Communist Party of Yechury. "

However reporters Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, that the all party meeting decided that Hazare the proposed version of the anti-graft account ' would "be taken into account in the drafting of the law."

Hazare is staging in Delhi, now in its ninth day, in a large open-air venue its protest, where tens of thousands of flag-waving every day to cheer on the man gathered supporters, has become a symbol of national dissent.

' I have only six kilos (13 pounds). There are concerns about my kidney. But I'm all derive strength ' Hazare said in a speech of his set design of the amount earlier in the day.

Hazare keeps his fast on a huge photo of India's independence icon Mahatma Gandhi, and says that his protest is a second war of independence.

His anti-corruption drive brought people to the streets of the cities in the country are demanding an end to the culture of corruption that permeates all levels of Indian society.

The breadth and depth of support for the campaign has shaken Singh's Congress-led Government, whose own anti-corruption credentials through a series of multi billion dollar scandals have been spoiled.

With Hazare only drinking water and refusing all food fears for his health under the team of doctors to monitor his vital signs are mounting.

"We recommended last night, for security reasons, he... admitted that in the hospital but he refused, should be move", the head of the medical team said Naresh Trehan, reporters.

In a letter to Hazare on Tuesday fell Singh a pointedly conciliatory tone, saying that his Government together Hazare the desire for the strongest possible anti-corruption laws.

He said "At worst, our ways and methods can be different, though I think that the differences have exaggerated,".

"I have no qualms about, say, that we your views and actions in the service of the nation, from a robust physical condition and not as part of the frail or refrain from health must", he added.

Hazare finished a previous hunger strike after 96 hours in April, when the Government agreed, activists and politicians in the development of the anti-corruption law to integrate Committee.


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