NEW DELHI – India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner fasted in jail on Wednesday after refusing a police release order, a stand-off that has sparked nationwide demonstrations and widespread derision at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government. The government arrested 74-year-old Anna Hazare and more than a thousand of his followers on Tuesday, just hours before he was due to begin a fast to the death to demand anti-corruption legislation. It then made a U-turn and ordered his release after thousands of Indians took to the streets, But Hazare refused to leave the New Delhi jail, insisting he wanted the right to return to the city park where he…
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