Anna to continue fight against graft, thanks youth for support
NEW DELHI: Social acivist Anna Hazare has said he would tour the entire country to campaign against corruption and promised to continue his fight after breaking his 97-hour hunger fast. He also had a word of thanks for the youth. "I have broken the fast today (Saturday) because the government has fulfilled our demand by issuing this order," he said, triumphantly flashing the gazette notifying the formation of a 10-member panel to draft a stringent Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill to combat corruption in high places. "I will go to various states and meet people everywhere," he said in a 15-minute address in Hindi to thousands of men and women from the dias near Jantar Mantar where he sat on hunger strike since Tuesday. The notification on the joint committee was issued by the government in the morning. "I thank everyone for spreading this movement all over, forgetting all divides of religion, caste and race," he said. He, however, said this is not the end of struggl...