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Swami Ramdev, Anna Hajare and the war against corruption

Anna is in the focus and limelight currently, and righfully so, due to his battle against corruption. This is a battle which he has been fighting for a long time time now. Swami Ramdev, another iconic and inspiring figure, a rishi, sage of the modern age, also took up the mantle of this fight against corruption through his bharat swabhimaan andolan. It is no wonder that these two good men along with other good men and women, like Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi, joined forces. But who took the lead in bringing all of them together? Anna's battle was primarily limited to Maharashtra, and only lately when the central government under Dr. Manmohan Singh sought to dilute the Right to Information Act, Anna's pet project, he had to directly confront the central government. Anna issued an ultimatum to the government that he would go on an indefinite hunger strike to protect the Right to Information Act. After sensing that ignoring this threat would invite a nationwide agitation, go