Anna's Delhi fast promises to be a flop show

July 26, 2012 10:44

The Anna Hazare show is back in town. But this time, with not much of a bang. After the breathless, second-by-second coverage of every word or move the anticorruption activist and his aides made last August, this time around the response has so far been lukewarm.

Hazare and his supporters on Wednesday gathered in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar, a popular protest venue, in a bid to push the Congress party-led government to enact the bill to set up the Lokpal, an anti-corruption ombudsman, during the parliament session that starts Aug. 8. Read

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