Article: What Anna Hazare's new plans mean for democracy
More on Anna Hazare's anti-democratic background in a column by Yogi Sikand (National Law School of India University), published on 29 August 2011 on the website of the Indian news portal Rediff under the title, "What Anna Hazare's new plans mean for democracy".
Excerpts: "Anna Hazare has ... now announced that his struggle for the Jan Lokpal was just a precursor to more campaigns which he soon plans to launch, including to change the country's electoral laws and education system. ... [I]n most of the villages under Anna Hazare-inspired programmes, 'elections are not welcomed'. ... Hazare defends this on the grounds that elections 'bring party politics and divide the people'. ... The denigration of electoral democracy, and, in its place, the glorification of the benevolent leader as divinely-inspired hero ... are central to Anna Hazare's political project".
More on Anna Hazare's anti-democratic background in a column by Yogi Sikand (National Law School of India University), published on 29 August 2011 on the website of the Indian news portal Rediff under the title, "What Anna Hazare's new plans mean for democracy".
Excerpts: "Anna Hazare has ... now announced that his struggle for the Jan Lokpal was just a precursor to more campaigns which he soon plans to launch, including to change the country's electoral laws and education system. ... [I]n most of the villages under Anna Hazare-inspired programmes, 'elections are not welcomed'. ... Hazare defends this on the grounds that elections 'bring party politics and divide the people'. ... The denigration of electoral democracy, and, in its place, the glorification of the benevolent leader as divinely-inspired hero ... are central to Anna Hazare's political project".
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