Anna is back at what he does best

Anna Hazare, who has been in hibernation for the last few years, has returned to the iconic Ramlila Maidan in the Capital, where he had launched his anti-corruption movement.

Anna’s pressure tactics have not changed in the last seven years: he has gone on a hunger strike and the demand has not changed either -- he wants the government to set up a Lokpal. Only this time the target is the Narendra Modi Government, not the UPA.

‘‘I have written 43 letters to the Modi government in the last four years but did not get any reply," he said soon after he began his hunger strike.

He has also demanded the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report, which has suggested ways to address the agrarian distress. Among those who had gathered at the venue were mostly farmers from neighbouring states.

Anna said he would hold discussions with the government during the agitation but his indefinite hunger strike, called 'Satyagraha', would continue "till the government comes out with a concrete action plan". The activist, who held a major agitation in 2011 and captured the imagination of his countrymen, said Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and some ministers from Maharashtra met him on Thursday and gave certain assurances."But I said I don't trust you. How many promises you have fulfilled so far? Nothing. So come with concrete action plan," he said in his address.