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Anna Hazare to resume protest for Jan Lokpal, farmers' issues from March 23

This will be a satyagrah for Jan Lokpal, farmers' issues and poll reforms

Anna Hazare
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Anna Hazare

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The Anna protest
 
Social activist Anna Hazare will launch another agitation over Jan Lokpal and farmers' issues in New Delhi on Friday. "This will be a satyagrah for Jan Lokpal, farmers' issues and poll reforms. At least 12 lakh farmers have committed suicide in the last 22 years. I want to know the number of industrialists committing suicide during this period," he said. Hazare has been demanding the formation of Jan Lokpal to keep a check on corruption. An aide of Hazare said the Narendra Modi government has not appointed a lokpal. "The reason given from the government's side is

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