Congress Activists Fast

Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan and senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Sunday met social activist Anna Hazare who is on a hunger strike in his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar.

Days after Ganga activist GD Agarwal passed away, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed concern over the deteriorating health of another person fasting for the conservation of the river.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today praised environmental activist GD Agarwal for his contribution towards saving the Ganga river and vowed to "take his fight forward."

I say this not as a political activist, but as an experienced journalist - the Congress party is losing the plot very fast and with every passing day, it is digging its own grave. As a member of a rival party, I can rejoice at its demise, but as a thinking individual, I can say that this demise will not auger well for Indian politics. The country n...

Union Minister General (Retd) VK Singh has criticised social activist Anna Hazare for sharing dais with Congress leader Raj Babbar and AAP's Arvind Kejriwal during his protest against the land bill at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.

Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday accused the UPA government of stabbing him in the back on the issue of Lokpal Bill and said that a hunger strike will be held from October 2 in Delhi to once again press for a strong anti-corruption law.

In the tempestuous latter half of August - marked, in India, by a prominent activist's public fast, pop-up protests, debates about corruption, and even debates about the debates about corruption - the Congress party seemed to flounder like a dinghy in a maelstrom. Perhaps it was because no one was at the tiller. Earlier in the month, a spokesman ha...

Social activist Anna Hazare has declared his intention to fast on August 16, in opposition what he calls the government's watered down version of the Lokpal Bill. But Hazare and his team have encountered another obstacle: the Delhi police.

Anna Hazare today said he was not afraid of death and dared the government to fire bullets in the event of his going on fast to press for a strong Lokpal bill."Anna is not afraid of death. They can fire bullets and not just use lathis to repress our agitation and the people of this country will decide whether India has a democratic rule or a dictat...

Several Congress activists today observed a day-long fast in Patna demanding either a judicial probe or a CBI inquiry, to be completed within six months, into the Forbesganj firing incident in Araria district.Partymen led by former MP Ranjit Ranjan and state youth Congress chief Lalan Kumar held a demonstration at Kargil Chowk where they also under...

Ignoring the government's peace overtures, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is determined to go ahead with what he calls a satyagraha against corruption and black money.He plans to go on an indefinite fast from June 4 demanding that the government bring back black money stashed in tax havens abroad.His followers seem to be emulating social activist Ann...

The Telangana issue is generating a new wave of political strife in Andhra Pradesh - it's pitting Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy against other senior members of his own party, the Congress.Congress MPs, state ministers and MLAs from Telangana have decided to go on a hunger strike unless police cases filed against student protesters are dropped. T...

Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan and senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Sunday met social activist Anna Hazare who is on a hunger strike in his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar.

Days after Ganga activist GD Agarwal passed away, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed concern over the deteriorating health of another person fasting for the conservation of the river.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today praised environmental activist GD Agarwal for his contribution towards saving the Ganga river and vowed to "take his fight forward."

I say this not as a political activist, but as an experienced journalist - the Congress party is losing the plot very fast and with every passing day, it is digging its own grave. As a member of a rival party, I can rejoice at its demise, but as a thinking individual, I can say that this demise will not auger well for Indian politics. The country n...

Union Minister General (Retd) VK Singh has criticised social activist Anna Hazare for sharing dais with Congress leader Raj Babbar and AAP's Arvind Kejriwal during his protest against the land bill at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.

Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday accused the UPA government of stabbing him in the back on the issue of Lokpal Bill and said that a hunger strike will be held from October 2 in Delhi to once again press for a strong anti-corruption law.

In the tempestuous latter half of August - marked, in India, by a prominent activist's public fast, pop-up protests, debates about corruption, and even debates about the debates about corruption - the Congress party seemed to flounder like a dinghy in a maelstrom. Perhaps it was because no one was at the tiller. Earlier in the month, a spokesman ha...

Social activist Anna Hazare has declared his intention to fast on August 16, in opposition what he calls the government's watered down version of the Lokpal Bill. But Hazare and his team have encountered another obstacle: the Delhi police.

Anna Hazare today said he was not afraid of death and dared the government to fire bullets in the event of his going on fast to press for a strong Lokpal bill."Anna is not afraid of death. They can fire bullets and not just use lathis to repress our agitation and the people of this country will decide whether India has a democratic rule or a dictat...

Several Congress activists today observed a day-long fast in Patna demanding either a judicial probe or a CBI inquiry, to be completed within six months, into the Forbesganj firing incident in Araria district.Partymen led by former MP Ranjit Ranjan and state youth Congress chief Lalan Kumar held a demonstration at Kargil Chowk where they also under...

Ignoring the government's peace overtures, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is determined to go ahead with what he calls a satyagraha against corruption and black money.He plans to go on an indefinite fast from June 4 demanding that the government bring back black money stashed in tax havens abroad.His followers seem to be emulating social activist Ann...

The Telangana issue is generating a new wave of political strife in Andhra Pradesh - it's pitting Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy against other senior members of his own party, the Congress.Congress MPs, state ministers and MLAs from Telangana have decided to go on a hunger strike unless police cases filed against student protesters are dropped. T...