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Agrawal's death and Akbar's resignation: Modi govt's selective morality

Akbar had to go because the #MeToo movement began to have wide resonance, but big political ideas like Hazare's Lok Pal demand or Agrawal's plea to protect the Ganga were electorally unimportant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi, Saturday | Photo: PTI

Bharat Bhushan
The Narendra Modi government was unperturbed by the fast unto death by Swami Gyanswaroop Sanand aka Prof G D Agrawal, who was pressing for action to restore the uninterrupted flow of the Ganga. The prime minister merely acknowledged his death with a condolence tweet remembering his passion for saving the Ganga.

Anna Hazare also sat on a protest fast in Delhi, in March this year, demanding electoral reforms and the appointment of a Lok Pal, issues that had once brought the Manmohan Singh government to heel. His half a dozen letters to this PM went unanswered and he slunk back
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