Anna Hazare holds day-long fast; non-UPA parties share dais

Leaders of non-UPA parties on Sunday shared the dais with Anna Hazare during his one-day fast here backing him on a strong Lokpal but made it clear to him that it will be Parliament that will take the final call and civil society cannot expect all its demands to be accepted.

Congress and other UPA constituents kept away but prominent leaders, including those from the Left and the Right, came together on a visibly anti-Congress platform at Hazare's symbolic fast at Jantar Mantar, in protest against the Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Lokpal Bill.

Text: PTI/IANS

Image: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare during his one-day fast in protest against the proposals of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Lokpal in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo credit: PTI)