Corruption crusaders turn politicians when Indians grew fatigued with the endless fasts, many of the activists formed the AAP, a step that eventually split the movement. For a couple of months, the party rekindled public anger by staging a series of dramatic corruption exposés, but TV networks became wary of covering them because of the threat of defamation suits from politicians and businesses. This year, when party members drew attention to rising electricity rates and urged the city’s poor to stop paying utility bills, the domestic media were mostly silent. washingtonpost/world/asia_pacific/corruption-crusaders-turn-politicians/2013/06/30/ef5f0cd4-de85-11e2-ad2e-fcd1bf42174d_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:52:52 +0000
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