Fast: What Anna, Baba didn't learn from Gandhi

Situations India :Over the last one year, the present UPA government has got used to being periodically bombarded by exposes of innumerable cases of financial irregularities. The people of the country, too, have got increasingly frustrated with the top UPA leadership for its absolute failure to rein in or punish these unscrupulous elements.

Deliberations on the corruption-slaying Lok Pal bill got a new fillip on April 5, 2011 when Anna Hazare started an indefinite fast unto death in New Delhi. Prominent activists, jurists and public figures supported Anna and the white collar crowd at Jantar Mantar soon swelled to 6,000. Anna called it the "Second Freedom Struggle" and the people lapped it up.