Email:
[email protected]
Tel: 011-26464688
Telefax: 011-26444711
GANDHIAN SATYAGRAHA BRIGADE
An All India NGO of Gandhian Persuasion, Registered under the Societies
Registration Act 1860
Formalities under completion for amending our name Lajpat
Bhawan, Lajpat Nagar IV,
to read "Gandhian Seva & Satyagraha Brigade"
Delhi 110024
April 20, 2010
Crusade for a
corruption free India, commencing with elimination of corruption &
criminality from Indian politics
FAST UNTO DEATH –
ITS VALIDITY & RELEVANCE
Dear Satyagrahi members,
Supporting members and Moral supporters,
About two years ago, I received
from Gujarat the following feed-back from an esteemed Freedom Fighter and a
Satyagrahi
member:
“No amount of Satyagraha howsoever prolonged is
going to have any effect on the Union Government unless you find some
Satyagrahi to fast unto death for the cause you have been struggling for so
many years. If even then the Government does not implement their promises, you
shall have done your duty.”
I immediately responded as under:
“Why should I go in search of such a
Satyagrahi prepared to die for the cause of ethics and morality in the Nation’s
politics? I will be that Satyagrahi myself”
2. In resolving to take this extreme step, I was
pleasantly surprised to find that four or five members of GSB, as ‘mad’ as
myself were prepared to join me in undertaking the fast. I told them that I
will not allow any Satyagrahi member less than 60/65 years to join me because
‘they must live to fight another day’ and that I will restrict the number to
five including myself. At 92, I am the eldest of them all though the majority
are in the age group of 80-90 years. I cautioned them regarding the fiery ordeal
ahead and told them to withdraw if they so liked and that after such withdrawal
we shall still stay the best of friends, but I found that some of them were
determined to join me; (for their names please see page 5).
3. In deciding
as above I found unequivocal support from Mahatma Gandhi, the Author of
Satyagraha and Father of the Nation as under:
(i) “PLACE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE; it can be offered
without regard to effect, though aimed at a particular wrong or evil, by way of
self-immolation in order to rouse local consciousness or conscience..... Civil
disobedience can never be directed for a general cause such as Independence.
The issue must be definite and capable of being clearly understood and within
the power of the opponent to yield.”
(ii) “I am not aching for
martyrdom, but if it comes my way in the prosecution of what I consider to be
the supreme duty in defence of the faith I hold.... I shall have earned
it.” – M.K. Gandhi
Accordingly, we
shall request the Govt. to give the Nation a reasonable time-frame for
implementing the three vital recommendations of ARC re: Lok Pal,
Disqualification of candidates and Confiscation of illegally acquired property,
failing which our fasts unto death shall commence w.e.f. 2nd October 2010.
Regards,
Sincerely,
Shambhu Dutta,
Hony. General Secretary, GSB
ROLL OF HONOUR
Names of Satyagrahi members of GSB who shall undertake
Fast-unto-Death with effect from 2nd October, 2010
at Delhi, for the elimination of corruption and criminality from Indian
Politics. This is in case there is no commitment by the Union Government in two
months for a concrete and reasonable time frame for acceptance and
implementation of ARC’s three recommendations re: (i) Lok Pal (ii)
Disqualification of corrupt & criminal candidates for election to
Parliament and State Legislatures and (iii) Confiscation of property acquired
illegally or by corrupt means.
1. Shri K.P. Sahu, HIG-28, Shailashree
Vihar, Phase-7, Bhubaneswar-751 021 Orissa.
Ph: 0674-2743700
Email:
[email protected]
2. Shri James Rajasekaran E., PARD, PB No.
87 Madurai- 625 020 Ph: 0452-2533493
(M) 09543903735
Email:
[email protected]
3. Smt. R.S.
Devi, 113, R.P.S. Flates, Sheikh Sarai, Phase-I, New Delhi-110 017 Ph:
011-26013676
4. Shri
Murari Lal Gupta, 142, Daya Nand Vihar, Vikas Marg Extn., Delhi-110
092 Ph: 011-22373263
5. Shri G.N.
Seth, “Sangam Ashram” 10-A, Underhill Lane, Civil Lines, Delhi-110 054 Ph:
011-23940728
6. Shambhu Dutta, KD-18A, Ashok Vihar,
Phase-I,
Delhi-110 052 Ph: (R) 011-27427978
(Off.) 011-26464688
Email:
[email protected]
The rest, if any, shall be our Reservists.
The above names are being
intimated to the Government (Hon’ble Prime Minister and other Union Ministers
concerned), also to Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA(2) & President,
Indian National Congress, under a suitable covering letter.
