Advocate Milind Pawar, Anna Hazare’s lawyer in Pune, has written to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Home Minister R R Patil demanding security for Hazare.
The letter sent on Sunday states, “Anna Hazare had undertaken an indefinite hunger strike at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. For the last 12 days, Anna along with his team and other volunteers had delivered speeches against the government and some people were upset with these speeches...I know Anna is against any security, but I think it is the duty of the government to take care of Anna...’
In April this year, too, Pawar had written to the CM demanding security for Hazare, but no action was taken on the request.
“Although Hazare is not a government servant, it is the government’s lookout as to how security can be granted to him considering this latest agitation. Everyone knows what happened to Gandhiji and it is now the government’s responsibility to safeguard Anna,” said Pawar. He added that it is not difficult for the government to give him special consideration and grant him security.
When Pawar had told Anna about this demand for security in April, he had dismissed it saying he did not need it. “However, after this 12-day fast, things have changed and he has become more vulnerable,” Pawar said.
Datta Awari, a close aide of Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi, said that the government had appointed four security personnel for Hazare after he had filed a police complaint against Padmasinh Patil, whom the NCP had suspended from the party in 2009, for allegedly conspiring to eliminate him. “However, considering the latest 12-day fast, there is definitely a need for improvised security for Anna,” said Awari.
Suresh Pathare, a confidant of Hazare who has been with him in Delhi, said it was up to the government to decide whether or not Anna needed security. “Demanding it is against Hazare’s ideology,” he added.
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