NEW DELHI, June 3: Two Indian anti-corruption campaigners drew thousands of cheering supporters to a protest on Sunday to press the government to act against corruption and bring back hundreds of billions of dollars stashed overseas.
Yoga celebrity Baba Ramdev, swaddled in his trademark saffron robes, said he and social activist Anna Hazare would hold more protests through August “to bring back black money stashed abroad.”
The subjects of corruption and so-called black money have riled a public that is reeling from rapid inflation, slowing growth and widespread malnutrition affecting hundreds of millions of citizens.
The protests, along with a string of high-profile scandals, have deeply embarrassed the government and sullied Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s squeaky-clean image as an honest technocrat responsible for sparking India’s growth by liberalising the economy in the 1990s.
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