Lawmakers endorsed demands by Anna Hazare, the anticorruption campaigner who has been on a hunger strike, for legislation to fight graft.
Stories Related to India’s Parliament Gives In To Protests Over Corruption
By JIM YARDLEY, New York Times
Sat, 08/27/2011 - 10:41am
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