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Saffron hue divides anti-graft movement

Are Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, both of whom have taken to fasting to protest against graft, leading the same agitation?

June 04, 2011 / 14:04 IST
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Are Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, both of whom have taken to fasting to protest against graft, leading the same agitation? Their protests have the common goals of bringing back the lakhs of crores of Rupees stashed in tax havens all around the world, of ensuring accountability of those who misuse power to accumulate personal wealth and of injecting an element of transparency into an otherwise translucent system.


But the constituencies the two protests have drawn appear to differ markedly, belying, if not compromising, the final goal. Some of the leading figures of Anna
first published: Jun 4, 2011 01:56 pm

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