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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