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Anna Hazare -  real name Kisan Baburao – has caused political heads to roll after previous anti-corruption campaigns, and it is not just the Congress party to feel the heat.

The government of the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata parties lost two ministers during their joint government of his home state of Maharashtra in 1995-96, and investigations were launched against four ministers in 2003, when the state was under Congress control. In April, he launched four days of fasting, the prelude to the latest national crisis.

The hunger strike has become his weapon of choice but his often unrelenting tactics have long been labelled blackmail by critics.

A Congress party spokesman on Tuesday claimed he was surrounded by "armchair fascists, overground Maoists, closet anarchists".


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