Social activist Anna Hazare took a more aggressive stand against the government on Wednesday as he observed his one-day fast against the police eviction of Baba Ramdev and his supporters from Delhi's Ramlila Maidan festival grounds.
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- Anna Hazare greeted supporters during his one-day fast against corruption in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Speaking at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial to an assembly of mostly urban elites Mr. Hazare first condemned the incident on early Sunday. "Police lathi [baton]-charged children and women sleeping at midnight. This is throttling of humanity, throttling of democracy."
“Shame” hollered back the crowd, whom the police put at around 3,000, as it sheltered under a white tent on a day when the temperature was around 36C.
"What's the difference between British rule and the democratic rule?" said the septuagenarian activist, who models his life and habits on Gandhi. "It's comparable to Jallianwala Bagh," he said, alluding to the 1919 action by colonial police on an unarmed gathering at a garden in the northern Indian city of Punjab that left many dead.
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