File photo of Anna Hazare
Accusing both ruling and opposition parties of collecting unaccounted donations during elections, activist Anna Hazare on Friday announced that he will launch the 'Asli Azadi Abhiyan' (Real Freedom Movement)" from Mumbai on August 9, on the anniversary of the Quit India Movement.
(Who is Anna Hazare?)The social activist said consultation programmes will be held in nine major cities covering nearly 660 districts.
Interested people will be engaged in the movement during the consultation programmes to be held at nine cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi, said Hazare, accompanied by Rajendra Singh, a Magsaysay Award winning water conservationist.
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Hame azadi toh mili 1947 mein, par nakli azadi mili (We got independence in 1947, but it was a false freedom)," Hazare said, adding both the ruling and opposition parties exploited people, grabbed their lands, indulged in corruption, violence and loot.
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In the name of election funds, the parties are collecting huge unaccounted donations and turning black money into white, he said.
The parties are spending them in parts so that the Election Commission cannot object to it, he claimed.
The Asli Azadi Abhiyan will put pressure on the government to hold an audit of election funds and black money given to both the ruling and opposition parties which are spending crores of
rupees in Lok Sabha polls, he said.
(Politics split movement, says Anna Hazare)The movement will also ask the government to form a separate institution like the Lokpal to contain this illegal flow of black money, Hazare said.
The movement will not be a momentary one as it will go on for next five to 15 years till its demand for '
asli azadi' (real freedom) was met, he stressed.
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Satta ki naak dabane se moonh khulta hai (press the nose of the government to get its mouth opened)," he said.