Sunday Editorial Is Anna Hazare being too rigid on Lokpal issue?  By Ratnakar Tripathy Yes, it would indeed seem so! With all the political parties right from the left, right and centre having shown tremendous flexibility on the issue! So much so their shifting positions make them appear consistently inconsistent. They say one thing in the parliament, another when sharing the stage with Anna Hazare, and again something else when face to face with the TV camera. Indeed Anna has been quite rigid, consistently. Too rigid? Well, the moment you make that judgment, you need to specify your suggestion... 

Team Anna declares ‘Jail Bharo’: registrations begin through SMS and online New Delhi: with the parliament showing little sign of focusing on the main issues of the Lokpal Movement despite the ‘sense of the house’, Team Anna has now begun working on a campaign in support for Anna Hazare’s proposed hunger strike from December 27. Key Team Anna member Kiran bedi has already said on Twitter –‘Anna wants to know if you’re willing to go to jail’. Further an online site is now registering people for a Jail bharo movement. The registration process is to either SMS to 575758... 

Narendra Modi to Anna Hazare: thank you but praising me will get you in trouble! ‘I, me, my glorious self!’ Ahmadabad: Anna Hazare’s praise of the Gujarat CM Naresh Modi along with   Nitish Kumar has exploded in the Indian press and shrapnel are flying all over. Till the day before, Hazare’s fast was a sentimental issue for the entire nation except some habitual groaners of the cerebral kind. But suddenly, public figures from Gujarat and elsewhere like Mallika Sarabhai have begun to question Hazare’s judgment. Naresh Modi in order to pre-empt all such attacks has written...