{"id":308945,"date":"2019-02-04T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308945"},"modified":"2019-02-04T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:56:51","slug":"will-return-padma-bhushan-if-government-does-not-fulfill-promises-anna-hazare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-return-padma-bhushan-if-government-does-not-fulfill-promises-anna-hazare\/","title":{"rendered":"Will return Padma Bhushan if government does not fulfill promises: Anna Hazare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308946 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/anna-hazare-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/anna-hazare-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/anna-hazare.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Social activist Anna Hazare, whose indefinite hunger strike entered the sixth day on Monday, warned that if the Narendra Modi government fails to fulfill its promises in the next few days, he will return his Padma Bhushan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hazare began his hunger strike on Wednesday at his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Maharashtra&#8217;s Ahmednagar district, demanding the setting up of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states and resolution of farmers\u2019 issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stating that he will not break his fast until the Centre appoints a Lokpal, Hazare said on Sunday that he will return his Padma Bhushan award to the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that the Narendra Modi government had breached the faith of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the doctors, Hazare has lost 3.8 kg since he started his fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 5,000 farmers from the district are likely to stage a protest outside the district collector&#8217;s office on Monday to support Hazare&#8217;s agitation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social activist Anna Hazare, whose indefinite hunger strike entered the sixth day on Monday, warned that if the Narendra Modi government fails to fulfill its promises in the next few days, he will return his Padma Bhushan. Hazare began his hunger strike on Wednesday at his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Maharashtra&#8217;s Ahmednagar district, demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308947,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308945\/revisions\/308947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}