Anna Hazare Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Kisan Baburao Hazare
NICK NAMES
Kisan Hazare
POPULAR NAMES
Anna Hazare
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Tuesday
NEXT BIRTHDAY ON
Sunday
BIRTHPLACE
Bhingar, Bombay Province, British India
AGE
87 Years 5 Months 26 Days
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
GEMINI
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
5'4''(feet & inches)
1.6256 meters
162.56 cm
WEIGHT
58 kg
127.6 lbs
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Fame & Address
DEBUT
Ralegan Siddhi Transformation
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Indian anti-corruption movement - 2011, Indian anti-corruption movement- 2012, Watershed development programmes, Right to Information
www.facebook.com/KBAnnaHazare
Official Website
www.annahazare.org
Education, Net Worth & More
RELIGION
Hinduism
QUALIFICATION
Seventh grade
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Career of Anna Hazare
After working for twelve years in Indian army. He spends his gratuity and some donations from the villagers in the transformation of his village Ralegan Siddhi which was a very poor village at the time. He started school in the village, prohibited alcohol. He had taken many steps to improve the quality of life in that village and now this village had become a role model for others. He launched the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan in 1991. He also campaigns against the use of food grains to make liquor. In 2011, he began an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. He was joined by thousands of supporters including well known social activist like former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Medha Patkar, Arvind Kejriwal. The movement began a revolution in Indian public. On 3 August 2012 at 5 PM team and Anna decided to end the indefinite fast and the team decided to make a political party but Anna refused to enter into politics.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Anna Hazare
- Does Anna Hazare takes alcohol? No. He had taken many steps to pass a law to ban Alcohol, Cigarettes, Tobacco and Beedi.
- Is Anna Hazare in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- He has received Padma Bhushan award which is a third-highest civilian award from the Government of India in 1992.
- He had given his valuable services to Indian Army for twelve years and fought in the Indo-Pak War in 1965.
- He transformed a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra. This village is an inspiration for other villages in India. This was a poor village in 1975 but now it is one of the richest villages in India. This village produces energy by eco-friendly means such as solar power, biofuel, and windmills.
- Many well-known faces were with him like Kiran Bedi, Aamir Khan at his anti-corruption movement.
- He calls himself fakir as he has no family, no property, no bank balance and he is seen only in Khadi.
- He is also called as The Gandhi of 21st Century.
- Most of us do not know about the fact that the revolutionary man had tried to commit suicide in his younger age as he was frustrated with his life.
- His mind changed when he read a book by Swami Vivekanand. When he read the book he came to know about the main objective of human life. The book inspired him so much that he decided to spend his life to serve humanity. According to him to work for the betterment of common man is equivalent to worship the God.
- He never got any help from the side of Government of India.
- He had faced many financial problems in his childhood. His father was an unskilled labor in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy and did not have enough money to send him to school. One relative took him to Mumbai but they also became financially unable so he had to leave the school after Seventh grade. He had done odd jobs like selling flowers at the Dadar railway station in Mumbai.
- Once he tied three drunken villagers to the pillars and beat them with his army belt to teach them that alcohol is not good for them and also for their families.
- One Marathi film Mala Anna Vhaychay (I want to become Anna), and one Hindi film Anna is based on his life.
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