Agrawal's death and Akbar's resignation: Modi govt's selective morality

Akbar had to go because the #MeToo movement began to have wide resonance, but big political ideas like Hazare's Lok Pal demand or Agrawal's plea to protect the Ganga were electorally unimportant

The Narendra Modi government was unperturbed by the fast unto death by Swami Gyanswaroop Sanand aka Prof G D Agrawal, who was pressing for action to restore the uninterrupted flow of the Ganga. The prime minister merely acknowledged his death with a condolence tweet remembering his passion for saving the Ganga.

Anna Hazare also sat on a protest fast in Delhi, in March this year, demanding electoral reforms and the appointment of a Lok Pal, issues that had once brought the Manmohan Singh government to heel. His half a dozen letters to this PM went unanswered and he slunk back