Freedom fighters · Anti-corruption · 1937–
Anna Hazare
Social activist whose hunger strikes and campaigns pushed Right to Information in Maharashtra and the 2011 India Against Corruption movement for a stronger Lokpal.
Hazare used satyagraha-style pressure for transparency laws and against corrupt officials. The 2011 movement put anti-corruption on every TV screen in India.
Critics argue about politics around the movement. The public fact remains: millions learned the word Lokpal because people refused to stay quiet.
Why on this wall
Made anti-corruption a mass street language in modern India.