Mahatma Zondhi resurrected: attack of the zondhies!

Anna Hazare hunger strike:

Attack of the Zondhies? Secular brigade has pulled the triumph card and called the upon the dead Gandhian values and hoping it will make public forget their misdeeds. It was a resurrection of obsolete maha atma black magic!

This Hazaare and his sidekicks look dangerous to me. I am leery of anyone pushing prohibition and/or castration. (MD Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi!)

(From Wikipedia: Though the closure of liquor brewing reduced alcoholism in Ralegan Siddhi, some villagers continued to drink. They obtained their liquor from neighbouring villages. The villagers decided that those men would be given three warnings, after which they would be physically punished. Twelve men who were found in a drunken state even after initial warnings were tied to a pole with help from the youth group and flogged. Anna Hazare says, “Doesn’t a mother administer bitter medicines to a sick child when she knows that the medicine can cure her child? The child may not like the medicine, but the mother does it only because she cares for the child. The alcoholics were punished so that their families would not be destroyed.)

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/59049/anna-hazare-calls-off-hunger.html

Anna Hazare calls off hunger strike

Ralegaon Siddhi (Maharashtra), Mar 20 (PTI)

Noted social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday called off his five-day-old indefinite hunger strike after being assured by Maharashtra government that his demands, including action on corruption in cooperative credit societies, would be looked into.

Cooperatives Minister Harshwardhan Patil, Water Resources Minister Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar and Tribal Minister Babanrao Pachpute flew in by a private helicopter from Mumbai today and met Hazare at the Yadavbaba temple here. After discussing his demands, they offered coconut water to him. "Hazare has agreed to call off the hunger strike after we assured him that the government was serious on acting on his demands," Patil said. He began the indefinite hunger strike on March 16, on the occasion of Gudi Padwa, the Marathi New Year.