The protests for Jan Lokpal Bill are a group of unprecedented protests for Jan Lokpal Billthat sprang up across India especially after April 5th 2011. The protesters want the government to draft a strong anti-graft Lokpal bill which follows the originally drafted bill and not the changes the Government of India plans to bring to the bill, which will make the Lokpal just another advisory body with no actual power in the vast Indian bureaucracy. Following continuous calls in vain to the government to work effectively towards passing the bill, a renowned civil society activist and Gandhian Anna Hazare went on an indefinite hunger strike unto death until his demands in support of the bill were met. Anna Hazare has demanded for a joint committee of civil society members and government representatives to draft a strong anti-graft bill.The protests led to the creation of an unprecedented protests movement that saw protests being organised in various cities and towns of India. Protests included one day fasts, candle vigils and rallies. The protests are especially one of their kind in India as they have no political affiliation and the protesters have been very hostile to any political party trying to grab the initiative to meet its own political goals from the activists. The protests to some extent have similarities in demands, methods and philosophies with 2011 Egyptian revolution and the Tunisian revolution, that has rocked the very foundations of governments in the Arab world.
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