'Looks like You Are Intoxicated With Power' Anna Hazare Writes to Delhi CM Kejriwal

NEW DELHI: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare in a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reminding him of his own lines from his book Swaraj while criticising Delhi's liquor policy and accusing him of getting intoxicated with power.

Notably, Kejriwal had written Swaraj in 2012 before joining politics.

"Before stepping into politics, you had written a book Swaraj. You had got the foreword of the book written by me. You had boasted about the Gramsabha and the liquor policy in the book. Whatever you had written is to remind you," said Hazare in his letter.

Hazare said further in the letter, "You had written ideally in the book and I had great expectations from you. But, it seems that you have forgotten those words after stepping into politics and becoming the Chief Minister. The new excise policy, which you have formulated seems to promote the habit of liquor addiction. The policy can lead to liquor shops at every corner of the state. In result, it can promote corruption which is not in the favour of the public, but you decided to bring such policies".

"It seems that as liquor has the intoxication, the same has with the power. And you also have been intoxicated with the power," Anna Hazare said in the letter.

"Seeing Delhi Excise Policy, it seems that the party which was formed by scrapping the historical movement has gone on the same path as other parties are treading which is a very sorry matter," he said.

(With Inputs from Hindustan Times)

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