India’s leader urges Anna Hazare to end hunger strike
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NEW DELHI — On the eighth day of anti-corruption demonstrations, the Indian prime minister urged an activist to end his hunger strike and offered to request a parliamentary panel to discuss stronger legislation against graft.
In his first overture to Anna Hazare, the leader of the nationwide uprising against corruption, Manmohan Singh wrote in a letter that they shared the same goal but differed in their methods. Both wanted to "reduce significantly, if not eliminate, the scourge of corruption," Singh wrote.
Read full article >>Associated Press 24 Aug, 2011
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