India's popular anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare was criticised by mainstream political parties on Tuesday for saying he supported the public flogging of alcoholics.
Hazare, whose hunger strike in August against corruption attracted massive nationwide support, told the NDTV news channel that corporal punishment had previously been used in his home village in Maharashtra state.
"We give three warnings because after all they are our people," he said. "But after the warnings, we drag that person to the temple and make him promise that he will never drink again in his life.
"But even after all this if they continued drinking, we used to tie them to a pole near the temple and beat them up." Full story...
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Hazare, whose hunger strike in August against corruption attracted massive nationwide support, told the NDTV news channel that corporal punishment had previously been used in his home village in Maharashtra state.
"We give three warnings because after all they are our people," he said. "But after the warnings, we drag that person to the temple and make him promise that he will never drink again in his life.
"But even after all this if they continued drinking, we used to tie them to a pole near the temple and beat them up." Full story...
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