Lokpal would have prevented Rafale scam: Anna Hazare

PTI Updated - January 21, 2019 at 09:59 PM.

Lokpal would have prevented Rafale scam, says anti-graft activist

New Delhi: 21/01/2019: Social activist Anna Hazare addressing the media on farmers issue , in New Delhi on Monday . Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma /The Hindu

Press Trust of India

The Rafale “scam” would not have happened if the Lokpal was in place, social activist Anna Hazare said here on Monday, announcing indefinite hunger strike from January 30 over his unmet demands for farmers and implementation of the anti-corruption law.

The veteran anti-graft leader slammed the Centre for not implementing the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, despite an order of the Supreme Court, saying he felt the country was in “danger” of slipping towards “autocracy”.

This will be his third hunger strike over the demand of Lokpal in the last eight years. He sat on an indefinite hunger strike at the Ramleela ground here for the first time in April 2011.

Published on January 21, 2019 16:29