'Power-hungry' politicians will not let bill pass easily: Hazare

NEW DELHI: After successfully leading the agitation on Lokpal Bill, social activist Anna Hazare has struck a note of caution.

Expressing apprehension over parliamentarians' readiness to pass a strong anti-corruption legislation he has asked his supporters to be prepared for a "bigger battle".

Addressing the media, the 73-year-old social activist said "power-hungry" politicians will not easily accept any bill having stringent provisions against corruption or "shed" the power they enjoy.

"But on this issue, people will get together," he said adding, MPs and MLAs were being elected to serve the people and not to be their masters. "But they (elected representatives) have forgotten this."

Hazare, who has set August 15 as the deadline for passage of the bill, said, "I feel there will be need for a bigger agitation in future (to get the bill passed in Parliament)."

"I don't think they (MPs) will easily accede to the passage of the bill as they feel it will cut down their powers." 

1 in 5 Delhiites drinks impure water:

 (New Delhi, March 11, 2011):
Every fifth person in the  National Capital is not getting purified drinking WATER, which is what the city's water utility, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) claims to supply, but a potentially deadly cocktail of disease-carrying germs, a survey by the municipal health department has found.

The findings of the survey, which tested water samples from six hundred locations spread across the Capital, are shocking.


Close to 20 per cent of the samples were found to be unfit for human consumption. And that too, by Indian standards, which are ten times higher than the level considered acceptable in the West.