Team Anna
Team Anna is an organisation of supporters of Anna Hazare.[1]
Anna Hazare, a veteran Gandhian social worker from Maharashtra has started war against corruption in India forcing the Govt. to take quick decisions through presidential proclamations and parliamentary resolutions for enactment of laws against corruption on the lines dictated by him. His nonviolent movement is supported by several millions people. Other noted social workers have joined him in the war against corruption. They are :
- Arvind Kejriwal- A 'Citizen's Right to Information' activist, a technocrat by qualification, who resigned Govt. service from the post of Income Tax Commissioner. He is considered to be the chief strategist of the team.
- Shanti Bhushan-A veteran Supreme Court lawyer and former Law Minister of Govt of India
- Prashant Bhushan - Son of Mr. Shanti Bhushan and himself a renowned advocate of Supreme Court of India.He is reported to have filed some 500 PILs in the Supreme Court.
- Kiran Bedi - Former cop, first woman IPS of India and a social worker, running two NGO Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation.
- Medha Patkar Social activist
- Manish Sisodia - Former Zee News Producer and Currently Social Activist. Running Kabir NGO with vision of Great India.
- Kumar Vishwas - Hindi Poet and a professor of Hindi Literature.
- Santosh Hegde - Former Supreme Court judge.
- Shazia Ilmi - Former Star News anchor.
- Abhinandan Sekhri - Former TV news reporter.
- Shivendra Singh - A 33-year-old journalist who led the India Against Corruption (IAC) campaign.
- Aswathi Murlidhara - Hazare’s movement provided her a distinct role as a media coordinator, with media advocacy being one of the key functions behind the protest.
- Nitin Davar - Official “performance in-charge” at Ramlila Maidan and sings all the “jan geets” in between the speeches.
- Gaurav Bakshi - Created a Facebook page for Anna Hazare and also started the website annahazare.org.
- Ankit Lal
- Ashwin Jain
- Narendra Reddy
- Mayank Gandhi
- Darshak Hathi - Representative of Art of Living
- Naveen Jaihind
- Dinesh Vaghela
- Sanjay Singh
- Prithvi Reddy
- Chandramohan - Representative of Chennai Team
- Akhil Gogoi
- Arvind Gaur
- Devinder Sharma
- Sunita Godara
- Gopal Rai
- Maulana Shamoon Qasmi
- Swati Maliwal
References
External links
1.http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/aboutus.html