The Rafale “scam” would not have happened if the Lokpal was in place, social activist Anna Hazare said here on Monday, announcing indefinite hunger strike from January 30 over his unmet demands for farmers and implementation of the anti-corruption law.
The veteran anti-graft leader slammed the Centre for not implementing the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, despite an order of the Supreme Court, saying he felt the country was in “danger” of slipping towards “autocracy”.
This will be his third hunger strike over the demand of Lokpal in the last eight years. He sat on an indefinite hunger strike at the Ramleela ground here for the first time in April 2011.