In support of the protesting farmers, activist Anna Hazare wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express his intent to launch

In support of the protesting farmers, activist Anna Hazare wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express his intent to launch the “last hunger strike” of his life on the farmers’ issues.

Without specifying a date, Hazare in his letter to the PM said that he will be staging a fast in the national capital by month-end.

Anna Hazare According to the reports, on 14 December, 83-year-old Hazare in his letter to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar warned of a hunger strike if his demands were not met. The letter also mentioned demands on the implementation of the MS Swaminathan Committee’s recommendations on agriculture and the granting of autonomy to the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.

Hazare further mentioned that even after getting in touch with the government five times, he had not received any response from them. “As a result, I have decided to go on the last hunger strike of my life,” Hazare said.

He said that he had written four letters to the concerned authority seeking permission to organise the hunger at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan but had received no response.

Narendra Modi

Back in 2011, when Hazare went on a hunger strike for anti-corruption movement, the then UPA government had called a special session of the Parliament in which the senior ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who were in the Opposition at that time, had praised him.

“Now, despite giving written assurances over the demands, you are not fulfilling them,” he said.