India: Anna Hazare calls for anti-corruption protests
Fasting Indian social activist Anna Hazare has called for mass protests by his supporters against corruption.
The 72-year-old campaigner is on the fourth day of a hunger strike to push for stringent new anti-corruption laws.
He wants his followers to "fill India's jails" in a mass campaign of non-violent civil disobedience on 13 April.
Thousands of people have joined Mr Hazare's protest. In recent months India has been rocked by a string of corruption scandals.
On Thursday, the government agreed to include civil society members in a panel which Mr Hazare is demanding be set up to draft new anti-corruption legislation.
But differences remain over who will lead the panel and whether it will have legal powers.
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