Lokpal Movement

The 81-year-old anti-graft crusader has been on hunger strike in his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar, over 240 kilometres from here, since Wednesday.

Kisan Baburao Hazare, better known as Anna Hazare today started an indefinite hunger strike with a demand for the government to set up a Lokpal. He began his strike at Ramlila Maidan this morning - the same ground where his stir for an anti-corruption body seven years ago caught the country's imagination. In 2011, he sat on a similar hunger strike ...

Anna Hazare, who had launched his anti-corruption movement from Delhi nearly seven years ago, has returned to the iconic Ramlila Maidan in the capital. After over half a decade, his demands haven't changed, and neither has his modus operandi. He began his indefinite hunger strike against the central government for failing to set up the Lokpal at th...

Social activist Anna Hazare is set to go on an indefinite hunger strike against the Centre in Delhi today, nearly seven years after his anti-corruption movement caught the imagination of millions of Indians and shook the then UPA government.

The anti-corruption Lokpal should be set up without delay and the lack of a Leader of Opposition should not hold up the process anymore, the Supreme Court told the government today. This means, the government can select an ombudsman without taking the Congress, the main opposition group, on board.

The Delhi government is likely to extend the ongoing Winter Session to allow passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill which was cleared by the cabinet earlier this week.

The eight-year-old SUV used by social activist Anna Hazare during various agitations, including Jan Lokpal movement, was today sold in an auction at his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district.

The future of the movement which led to the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party could well depend on how Kejriwal leads his party in the next few months, says Rana Ayyub.

Maybe next time, Anna Hazare has indicated to the Aam Aadmi Party, whose chief Arvind Kejriwal had invited the 77-year-old activist today to the Delhi secretariat, which houses his office, to "purify the space."

Kiran Bedi today said she would meet Anna Hazare and explain her decision to join politics. The Gandhian has refused to take her calls, apparently upset that Ms Bedi did not consult him before joining the BJP.

Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday taken to the same Tihar jail cell where his mentor Anna Hazare was kept after his arrest during the Lokpal movement in 2011, prison officials said.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is making the final changes to its version of the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, which will create an ombudsman or Lokayukta for the state of Delhi to investigate venality among elected representatives and bureaucrats. Two-and-a-half years ago Mr Kejriwal, now the Delhi Chief Minister, had teamed up with Gandhi...

Missing from the picture today was Arvind Kejriwal, who was constantly by Anna's side in 2011, as they engineered a huge anti-graft movement that electrified middle-class India.

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare today threatened to intensify his movement for a strong Lokpal Bill if the UPA government failed to introduce it before the General elections next year.

Activist Anna Hazare has announced a new front against corruption, whose name will be disclosed before Diwali. The co-founder of his movement, the former chief of the Indian Army, VK Singh, sat next to Anna at a press conference in Mumbai. Together, they demanded that Parliament be dissolved immediately because the government, beset by graft and in...

The 81-year-old anti-graft crusader has been on hunger strike in his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar, over 240 kilometres from here, since Wednesday.

Kisan Baburao Hazare, better known as Anna Hazare today started an indefinite hunger strike with a demand for the government to set up a Lokpal. He began his strike at Ramlila Maidan this morning - the same ground where his stir for an anti-corruption body seven years ago caught the country's imagination. In 2011, he sat on a similar hunger strike ...

Anna Hazare, who had launched his anti-corruption movement from Delhi nearly seven years ago, has returned to the iconic Ramlila Maidan in the capital. After over half a decade, his demands haven't changed, and neither has his modus operandi. He began his indefinite hunger strike against the central government for failing to set up the Lokpal at th...

Social activist Anna Hazare is set to go on an indefinite hunger strike against the Centre in Delhi today, nearly seven years after his anti-corruption movement caught the imagination of millions of Indians and shook the then UPA government.

The anti-corruption Lokpal should be set up without delay and the lack of a Leader of Opposition should not hold up the process anymore, the Supreme Court told the government today. This means, the government can select an ombudsman without taking the Congress, the main opposition group, on board.

The Delhi government is likely to extend the ongoing Winter Session to allow passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill which was cleared by the cabinet earlier this week.

The eight-year-old SUV used by social activist Anna Hazare during various agitations, including Jan Lokpal movement, was today sold in an auction at his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district.

The future of the movement which led to the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party could well depend on how Kejriwal leads his party in the next few months, says Rana Ayyub.

Maybe next time, Anna Hazare has indicated to the Aam Aadmi Party, whose chief Arvind Kejriwal had invited the 77-year-old activist today to the Delhi secretariat, which houses his office, to "purify the space."

Kiran Bedi today said she would meet Anna Hazare and explain her decision to join politics. The Gandhian has refused to take her calls, apparently upset that Ms Bedi did not consult him before joining the BJP.

Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday taken to the same Tihar jail cell where his mentor Anna Hazare was kept after his arrest during the Lokpal movement in 2011, prison officials said.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is making the final changes to its version of the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, which will create an ombudsman or Lokayukta for the state of Delhi to investigate venality among elected representatives and bureaucrats. Two-and-a-half years ago Mr Kejriwal, now the Delhi Chief Minister, had teamed up with Gandhi...

Missing from the picture today was Arvind Kejriwal, who was constantly by Anna's side in 2011, as they engineered a huge anti-graft movement that electrified middle-class India.

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare today threatened to intensify his movement for a strong Lokpal Bill if the UPA government failed to introduce it before the General elections next year.

Activist Anna Hazare has announced a new front against corruption, whose name will be disclosed before Diwali. The co-founder of his movement, the former chief of the Indian Army, VK Singh, sat next to Anna at a press conference in Mumbai. Together, they demanded that Parliament be dissolved immediately because the government, beset by graft and in...