Anna Hazare ends fast after talks with Fadnavis, gives 6-month deadline

According to Hazare's aide Datta Awari, the anti-corruption activist had lost over five kg weight during the fast

After Central government accepted his demands, social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday ended his six-day fast at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minster of State for Agriculture Gajendra Shekhawat called on Hazare to convey him messages of Central government agreeing to his demands.

Hazare said that he has been assured by the government that appointments of Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in the states would be made soon.

However, he warned that he will resume the hunger strike in September if government fails to take concrete action in six months.

"They (government) have assured us that