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Social activist Anna Hazare paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat before going on a day-long fast to protest against police crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his supporters, in New Delhi on Wednesday - PTI.
Taking on the government, civil rights activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday went on a day-long fast at Rajghat, declaring that his agitation against corruption was the “second freedom struggle” and threatened another hunger strike from August 16 if Lokpal Bill is not passed by then.
He accused the government of putting “hurdles” in the drafting of Lokpal Bill and trying to defame the civil society members of the joint panel, such as Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, Santosh Hegde and Arvind Kejriwal through a “discreet” campaign.
Mr. Hazare, joined by his associates and a few thousand supporters, went on the hunger strike to protest the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s supporters during their agitation against corruption here on Saturday night, which he termed as a “blot on humanity” and attempt to “stifle democracy“.
There have been support hunger-strikes for the day in most Indian towns and may be in rural India too. There was no mobilisation of masses, but the convergence of conscious citizens has been spontaneous in hundreds and thousands.
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