Social activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite hunger strike entered the
fifth day on Sunday even as villagers blocked a state highway in support
of his agitation in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, leading to
traffic jams in the area.
Hazare has been on a hunger strike since Wednesday in his native
Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar demanding appointment of
anti-corruption watchdogs at the Centre and in Maharashtra and
resolution of farmers’ issue.
In support of the 81-year-old Army man-turned- activist’s demands,
farmers and youth blocked the Ahmednagar-Pune state highway at Supa
village in Parner tehsil, located about 38 km from here, in the morning,
resulting in huge traffic jams.
They supported Hazare’s demands for immediate appointment of Lokpal
at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states where such statutory
anti-corruption watchdogs do not exist, implementation of the
Swaminathan Commission recommendations on ways to address agrarian
distress, besides some electoral reforms, the protest’s convener, Shahir
Gaikwad, told PTI.
