Jai Ho Anna

Anna Hazare on Sunday warned of an “unprecedented revolution” in the country if the Lokpal Bill is not passed by August 30 and said the government will have to“either get the Bill passed or go.”

Accusing the government of “betraying” the civil society on the Lokpal issue, Mr. Hazare, whose fast entered the sixth day on Sunday, told a large gathering of his supporters at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi that the government is not “honest” in its intent to fight corruption.

“If the government does not get the Lokpal Bill passed by August 30 there would be an unprecedented revolution in the country by the people... The government will have to either get the Bill passed (in Parliament) or go,” he said after a large number of people marched from India Gate to the Maidan expressing solidarity with him.

Calling his campaign against corruption as the beginning of “second struggle for Independence”, the 73-year-old Gandhian asked the youth to keep the “flame of revolution burning whether Anna is alive or not.”