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 It's hard to believe that a short, thin, mild-
looking fellow; the kind of person you
wouldn't look at twice. Nor is his background
the stuff from which modern leaders is
supposed to be made of.
 Still he has inspired and carried out
transformation and changes which appears to
be almost impossible.
 How and why he has become a phenomenon
and influenced lakhs of people. Great lessons
to be learned and shared.


 Khemkaran, September 1965. An Indian military
convoy rumbles towards the fighting zone driven by
Hazare. Suddenly, two Pakistani Sabre jets scream in
to attack. A splinter grazes his forehead, he ducks
below the dashboard. The windscreen shatters and
bullets riddle the man sitting next to Hazare. The 25-
year-old driver tumbles out of his truck and prays
fervently as the two Sabres strafe the convoy again..
Of the few survivors, only Hazare escapes serious
injury. “You saved me, God,” Hazare says, over and
over again. “But why?”

 At the village of Ralegaon Siddhi, He discovered why
God saved Baburao Hazare. A worthy cause, he
realized, lay right in front of him: The upliftment of his
own village, Ralegaon Siddhi. Ralegaon Siddhi like
other villages was suffering . With water available only
during the monsoons, its farmers could barely grow
one crop a year, and 70 percent of the village’s 315
families lived in abject poverty.

 Since he returned to Ralegaon Siddhi in 1975, Hazare
has spearheaded a movement that has changed all this
forever. Today, Ralegaon Siddhi is brisk and
prosperous.. Its fields are heavy with grain; there’s a
bank, a boarding school, biogas plants; some of its
farmers drive around on mopeds. Even more
remarkable is the social transformation that Hazare has
brought. No one drinks in Ralegaon Siddhi. There
hasn’t been a crime here in years.

 During his annual visits home, Hazare had been appalled by
its steady deterioration—even the village temple had
become badly run down. “If I could re-build the temple,”
Hazare said to himself, “more people might think of God
and lead better lives.”

 Finally, in August 1975, Hazare returned to Ralegaon after
retiring from the army. His service benefits amounted to
Rs20,000 were spent to rebuild the village temple.

 Few people paid him any attention at first. But as the temple
neared completion, the villagers began changing. Some
offered to donate wood; many volunteered their labour.
“This taught me one thing,” Hazare says. “If people are
convinced that you are not selfish, they’re on your side.”

 Among those who joined Hazare were a few
young men. They called him “Anna”—big
brother—and listened with fascination to his
dream of transforming their village. Gradually,
more youths joined the group, and Hazare
suggested they form a Tarun Mandal [youth
club].

Move away from personality based cause/image to
establish a permanent impact

 One night, a few Tarun Mandal members rushed to the
temple with the news that some drunks from a
neighbouring village had beaten up Gulab Bhalekar, a
40-year-old Ralegaon farmer, because he had not
saluted them. Anna seized the opportunity to call a
village meeting at which he lashed out against
drinking, illicit distilling and gambling. “I’m warning
all distillers here,” he said. “Shut shop!”
 Some distillers, fearing Anna and his boys, readily
complied. Others had their liquor dens smashed up.
But Hazare was not content with simply putting an
end to the illegal distilling. “You can drink elsewhere,”
he told villagers. “But if anyone here is found drunk,
he’d better watch out.”
Nothing works like real life examples to connect with people

 He soon proved he meant business. A few days
later when three men returned to Ralegaon drunk
after a binge in a nearby village, Hazare had them
tied to the temple pillars and personally flogged
them with his army belt.
 Anna Hazare is unfazed by criticism of such
behaviour. “Rural India is a harsh society,” he
says, “if you want change, it’s sometimes
necessary to be tough.” Indeed, no one I met at
Ralegaon holds Hazare’s harshness against him. “I
was a miserable drunk nine years ago,” said 44-
year-old Haribhau Mapari, a Ralegaon farmer.
“But after being thrashed, I’ve not touched a drop
of liquor. Anna saved me.”
Symbolism have a great impact on the mind of people-
you have to set an example

 Hazare soon realized that a far more important
reason for the villagers’ misery was lack of work.
In fact, because many of the villagers had worked
for the bootleggers, shutting down the distilleries
had, ironically, made several families even poorer.
As he wondered what could be done, Hazare
chanced upon a newspaper article about a state
government scheme that provided manual labour
jobs on public works projects. He and the Tarun
Mandal boys quickly rounded up about 200
villagers who needed work and got jobs for all of
them.
Do not mistake symptoms for the real cause

 Accordingly, Hazare decided to find out as much as he could
about these development projects. He haunted government
offices, talked to every bureaucrat he could, read several
newspapers and built up files on government development
schemes.

 Since Ralegaon suffered from acute water scarcity, Hazare was
especially interested in irrigation techniques. Reading about a
successful water conservation project near Purandhar, about
100 kilometres away, Anna studied the system and got
engineers to draw up plans for a similar facility at Ralegaon.

 And by persuading villagers to do much of the work
themselves, he got the facilities built at the lowest possible cost.
Today, much of Ralegaon’s farmland is irrigated. Agricultural
incomes have increased remarkably, and very few villagers live
below the poverty line. Not only have living standards risen,
dozens of villagers are now free of debt.


 Ralegaon’s self-help efforts are not always looked upon
kindly. Once, after the villagers decided they wanted a high-
school and constructed a 10-room building themselves, the
government refused to provide money for running it. Anna
soon discovered the reason: a powerful local politician,
annoyed because he’d received no votes in Ralegaon in a
recent election, was taking revenge.
 Hazare, however, was undeterred. He hired ten teachers,
offering them free food and housing in lieu of wages, and
got the school going. Then he systematically began to lobby
officials both at district headquarters in Ahmadnagar and at
the state secretariat in Bombay, 350 kilometres away.
 To keep expenses down during his Bombay trips, Hazare
slept on newspapers spread out on bus station floors, and
bathed in the sea.
Think out of the box, be creative to solve the problem or buy time

 But for one year, despite 20 visits to Bombay
and innumerable more to Ahmadnagar,
nothing happened. “Finally,” Hazare says, “I
decided I’d had enough.” He descended on
Ahmadnagar’s Zilla Parishad office one
morning with 250 villagers and announced that
they were all going on a hunger strike. Within
hours, officials in Bombay sent an assurance
that the money would be made available.
Identify the weak/vulnerable spots of your opponent and hit
them there

 Right from the day when Anna fought with the
police collecting the hafta from the Flower
sellers. Anna is ready to face anything for his
beliefs and mission in life. Anna is an example
of a leader rather than a power wielder. The
latter often wrongly style themselves as
leaders..

The moral courage to take a stand against injustice
comes from his belief in living for a cause above himself.


 The mission of the leader has to be clear simple
and in some way should engaged with the
audience without any explanation and lengthy
speeches extolling the virtues of the mission.
 When the mission appeals to the followers, the
followers come in naturally. The key is to create a
connect for every individual with the mission.
 The fear that corruption has almost got rampant
and affects everyone from man on the street to
upper class and some action has to be taken by the
people as the politicians are loathe to do
something hit the chord and thousands pour out
on the street to support Anna.
Work on the mission/message---not on the followers

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