Team Anna Hunger Strike

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

  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 for fasts has ended. It is time to give people a political alternative." Sources say the announcemen...

• Feedback that Team Anna wants on new political party

  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 Parliament.

• How Team Anna says its party will differ: 5 facts

  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. To much applause from the crowds gathered at the Jantar Mantar venue of Anna Hazare's protest, Arv...

• Team Anna shouldn't get into politics: Santosh Hegde

  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

  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 month from Team Anna members. Anna, who is 75, has also said that a letter written by another ministe...

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

  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 whether they should form a political party. He also said that their fast will end today at 5 pm.

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

  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 active politics, he said "There is nothing wrong with forming a party...we need to provide an alternat...

• Won't join politics, says Anna Hazare: Highlights

  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'

  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.

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

  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...