3. THE LEADER: Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare
Date of birth: 15 June 1937
Indian social activist and a prominent leader
in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
Hazare also contributed to the development
and structuring of Ralegan Siddhi, a village
in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district,
Maharashtra, India.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan—the
third-highest civilian award—by the
Government of India in 1992 for his efforts
in establishing this village as a model for
others.

4. Anna Hazare started an indefinite hunger strike
on 5 April 2011 to exert pressure on the Indian
government to enact a stringent anti-corruption
law as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill
The fast led to nation-wide protests in support.
The fast ended on 9 April 2011, a day after the
government accepted Hazare's demands.
For the year 2011 Foreign Policy magazine
named him among top 100 global thinkers.
Also in 2011 Anna was ranked as the most
influential person in Mumbai by a national daily
newspaper.
He has faced criticism for his authoritarian
views on justice, including death as punishment
for corrupt public officials and his alleged

6. Arvind Kumar Kejriwal
Date of birth: 16 June 1968
He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating
India's Right to Information movement at
grassroots and social activities to empower the
poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding
the government answerable to the people.
Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the
Association for India's Development,[4] a
Global Impact award winning NGO.

7. Kejriwal joined Tata Steel right after his
graduation from IIT Kharagpur. Kejriwal quit his
job with Tata Steel in 1992 and spent some time
working with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of
Charity in Kolkata, the Ramakrishna Mission in
the North-East India and Nehru Yuva Kendra.
As a member of India Against Corruption (IAC)
Kejriwal is an active participant in the
movement for the enactment of Jan Lokpal Bill.

9. Kiran Bedi
Date of Birth: 9 June 1949
An Indian social activist and a retired Indian
Police Service (IPS) officer.
Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and
became the first woman officer in the IPS.
Bedi held the post of Director General at the
Bureau of Police Research and Development
before she voluntarily retired from the IPS in
December 2007.
Bedi was the host and judge of the popular TV
series "Aap Ki Kachehri" (English, "Your
Court"), which is based on real-life disputes and
provides a platform for settling disputes

10. She has also founded two NGOs in India: the
Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation for welfare
and preventative policing in 1988 which was
later renamed as the Navjyoti India Foundation
in 2007, and the India Vision Foundation for
prison reformation, drug abuse prevention and
child welfare in 1994.
Bedi was awarded Ramon Magsaysay award in
1994 for Government service.

12. Prashant Bhushan
 born 1956
 An advocate practicing in Delhi and a social
activist.
 He is the son of lawyer and former Law Minister of
India Shanti Bhushan.
 Bhushan studied mechanical engineering at the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras but left after
a semester. He subsequently studied economics
and philosophy at Princeton University but left and
returned to India where he received a law degree
from Allahabad University
 On 12 October 2011, Bhushan was attacked and
beaten up by Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena and Shri
Ram Sena activists for his view that the Indian
army should be withdrawn from Jammu and
Kashmir,[3][4][5][6][7] [8][9][10] and if the Kashmiri

14. Shanti Bhushan
Date of birth: 11 November 1925
a former Law Minister of India holding office at
Ministry of Law and Justice from 1977 to 1979
in the Morarji Desai Ministry.
He along with his son Prashant Bhushan was
featured at 74th position in a list of the most
powerful Indians published by The Indian
Express in 2009.
Bhushan was an active member of Congress
(O) party and later the Janata Party.
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 14
July 1977 to 2 April 1980 and hold the office of

15. Source:
Wikipedia