Anna Hunger Strike

Anna Hazare won't give juice when Arvind Kejriwal ends hunger strike tomorrow

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Friday April 5, 2013

Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, will end his hunger strike tomorrow at 5 pm, after 14 days of surviving only on water, he said today.

Arvind Kejriwal's fast against 'inflated' bills enters 14th day

Edited by Mala Das (with inputs from PTI) | Friday April 5, 2013

Anti-corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal's fast has entered its 14th day today. Mr Kejriwal has been on a hunger strike since March 23 against what he calls inflated water and power bills in the national capital. The core committee ...

Arvind Kejriwal's fast enters Day 11, undeterred by thin audience

Alok Pandey | Tuesday April 2, 2013

For 11 days, Arvind Kejriwal has survived only on water in nearly 38-degree heat in Delhi. The founder of the Aam Aadmi Party has lost seven kilos, according to doctors, since he began his hunger strike to protest against what he describes as the go...

Anna Hazare meets Arvind Kejriwal, asks him to call off fast

Press Trust of India | Saturday March 30, 2013

Anna Hazare on Friday night visited Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal at his indefinite hunger strike site in Delhi and urged him to call off his fast citing his deteriorating health.

Arvind Kejriwal to sit on indefinite fast from today

Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday March 23, 2013

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal will sit on an indefinite hunger strike from today against increased power and water bills in the national capital.

Team Anna disbanded, blogs Anna Hazare, creating surprise and regret

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Monday August 6, 2012

In a blog that appears to have bewildered his closest aides, activist Anna Hazare has said that Team Anna stands dissolved. Three days after aides like Arvind Kejriwal and Anna ended their latest hunger strike, 75-year-old Anna writes that "The time ...

Feedback that Team Anna wants on new political party

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday August 4, 2012

Minutes before Team Anna ended its hunger strike on stage at the Jantar Mantar venue of their protest, they announced that they are forming a political party, which will contest the elections, with an aim to take their anti-corruption struggle to Par...

How Team Anna says its party will differ: 5 facts

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Friday August 3, 2012

On the 10th day of his hunger strike, and just before he ended it, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal looked frail and sat on a chair as he announced that the anti-corruption activists would float a political party and take their campaign to Parliament...

Team Anna shouldn't get into politics: Santosh Hegde

Press Trust of India | Friday August 3, 2012

Former Karnataka Lokayukta and Team Anna member Santosh Hegde said he does not support Anna Hazare and his team floating a political party, but would campaign for candidates who identify themselves with his movement against corruption.

It was Anna who asked for meeting to be kept secret: Salman Khurshid

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Friday August 3, 2012

Activist Anna Hazare, who ends his hunger strike in Delhi this evening, has accused the government of ill-disguised attempts to divide his team. As proof of this, he has said that Law Minister Salman asked him to conceal their meeting in Pune last m...

Team Anna to contest 2014? Referendum launched, fast ends today

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Friday August 3, 2012

Surrounded by thousands of supporters at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, activist Anna Hazare, still on a hunger strike and his right wrist full of raakhis, made two important announcements on Thursday. He said his aides want feedback within 48 hours on wheth...

Team Anna asks if it should enter politics; fast ends tomorrow evening

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Thursday August 2, 2012

Surrounded by thousands of supporters at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, Anna Hazare, still on a hunger strike and his right wrist full of raakhis, said today that he will not enter politics but "will fight from outside." Hinting that his aides may enter ac...

Won't join politics, says Anna Hazare: Highlights

Edited by Janaki Fernandes | Thursday August 2, 2012

Social activist Anna Hazare, on the ninth day of his team's hunger's strike, reiterated that he would not enter politics even though the country needed honest people in Parliament for the Lokpal Bill to be passed.

Prominent citizens urge Team Anna to form 'alternative political force'

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Thursday August 2, 2012

On the festival of Raakhi, thousands in Delhi used the holiday to attend activist Anna Hazare's camp in Delhi, where the 75-year-old and his aides are on an indefinite hunger strike against corruption. Actor Anupam Kher addressed the crowd. "You are...

Hunger strike enters ninth day, what next for Team Anna?

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Thursday August 2, 2012

It's the ninth day of the hunger strike by members of Team Anna at the capital's Jantar Mantar, and the big worry for them at this point is that there has been no effort by the government to engage with them so far. The social activists, led by Anna ...