Excerpts in Anna Hazare’s words at Jantar Mantar:
“Who has overturned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s letter of assurance on a strong Lokpal Bill?
“Who is that powerful hand behind (which forced the standing committee to backtrack)?
“He is Rahul Gandhi. I don’t have any personal grudge against him. He is a youth, and dreaming to become prime minister.
“Staying in a jhopdi (slum) for one day will not make a prime minister. One has to stay in jhopdi continuously. You have to make sacrifices….
“To fight goondas, one has to remain clean, otherwise they will twist and pin us down. For my clean state, a contract killer turned down supari against me saying, ‘Anna tou sadhu admi hei’.
“The people are the real masters and gram sabha is above all…we should not take a penny from tainted corporate sectors, but can take support from good ones to develop villages…...
“75 percent of (the state exchequer) goes in the management of government officials’ cars and other (unnecessary) privileges….”
