Fast Against Corruption

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers are observing a 'samuhik upwas' or mass fasting today to protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister in a corruption case linked to the Delhi liquor policy.

Sidestepping every question on his bitter rival Sachin Pilot and his protest against the Rajasthan government, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today said he is focusing on providing people relief from inflation and won't be distracted.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot today went ahead with his protest fast in Jaipur targeting his own government, in complete defiance of his party that had warned last night that his move would be seen as an "anti-party activity".

Months before Rajasthan goes to polls, the rebellion that was simmering between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Congress leader Sachin Pilot once again came to the fore with the latter announcing a day-long fast against corruption on Tuesday.

The assertion by the party came after former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot opened a new front against Chief Minister Gehlot, announcing a day-long fast to seek action from his government over alleged corruption during the BJP rule in the state.

Social activist Anna Hazare today said he would fast unto death from March 23 in Delhi if his demand for passing "proper" bills for Lokpal, Lokayukta and electoral reforms were not met.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, which owes its birth to the anti-graft agitation led by Gandhian Anna Hazare and his followers in the India Against Corruption (IAC), is getting a taste of its own medicine with five of its members sitting on an indefinite fast outside the party's Hanuman Road office in protest against the alleged lack of transpar...

YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, was shifted from Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail to a government hospital on Thursday night.

In his fight against corruption, megastar Amitabh Bachchan's character in the upcoming political saga Satyagraha, decides to fast a la real life social activist Anna Hazare.

Baba Ramdev ended his six-day hunger strike against corruption and black money with a glass of lime juice today, offered to him by two children. He has left the Ambedkar stadium in Central Delhi, under police escort , and is headed to the airport.

Lending support to Baba Ramdev's agitation against black money and corruption, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari on Monday said his party does not expect political backing from the yoga guru and will actively support his protest.

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 not in uniform...but every single one of you here is a soldier against corruption," he said.

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 Hazare, who began his hunger strike on Sunday, are demanding independent probe into corruption charg...

The Delhi Police has written to the activists reminding them that when the activists were given permission to hold their protest, they had agreed in writing to move to hospital if their health was in danger.

Activist Anna Hazare, 75, is in on the third day of his hunger strike against corruption at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. The government says that it's upto his supporters to convince him to end his fast. "Those that gave permission for the camp at Jantar Mantar will decide how to deal with issues like deteriorating health," said government sources, who ...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers are observing a 'samuhik upwas' or mass fasting today to protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister in a corruption case linked to the Delhi liquor policy.

Sidestepping every question on his bitter rival Sachin Pilot and his protest against the Rajasthan government, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today said he is focusing on providing people relief from inflation and won't be distracted.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot today went ahead with his protest fast in Jaipur targeting his own government, in complete defiance of his party that had warned last night that his move would be seen as an "anti-party activity".

Months before Rajasthan goes to polls, the rebellion that was simmering between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Congress leader Sachin Pilot once again came to the fore with the latter announcing a day-long fast against corruption on Tuesday.

The assertion by the party came after former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot opened a new front against Chief Minister Gehlot, announcing a day-long fast to seek action from his government over alleged corruption during the BJP rule in the state.

Social activist Anna Hazare today said he would fast unto death from March 23 in Delhi if his demand for passing "proper" bills for Lokpal, Lokayukta and electoral reforms were not met.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, which owes its birth to the anti-graft agitation led by Gandhian Anna Hazare and his followers in the India Against Corruption (IAC), is getting a taste of its own medicine with five of its members sitting on an indefinite fast outside the party's Hanuman Road office in protest against the alleged lack of transpar...

YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, was shifted from Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail to a government hospital on Thursday night.

In his fight against corruption, megastar Amitabh Bachchan's character in the upcoming political saga Satyagraha, decides to fast a la real life social activist Anna Hazare.

Baba Ramdev ended his six-day hunger strike against corruption and black money with a glass of lime juice today, offered to him by two children. He has left the Ambedkar stadium in Central Delhi, under police escort , and is headed to the airport.

Lending support to Baba Ramdev's agitation against black money and corruption, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari on Monday said his party does not expect political backing from the yoga guru and will actively support his protest.

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 not in uniform...but every single one of you here is a soldier against corruption," he said.

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 Hazare, who began his hunger strike on Sunday, are demanding independent probe into corruption charg...

The Delhi Police has written to the activists reminding them that when the activists were given permission to hold their protest, they had agreed in writing to move to hospital if their health was in danger.

Activist Anna Hazare, 75, is in on the third day of his hunger strike against corruption at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. The government says that it's upto his supporters to convince him to end his fast. "Those that gave permission for the camp at Jantar Mantar will decide how to deal with issues like deteriorating health," said government sources, who ...