"There is anger in India over a recent number of high-profile corruption cases"
Voters in India are staging mass protests over graft and corruption regarding telecommunications contracts and other matters that have been disclosed over recent weeks.
It seems that even a government or Prime Minister can be toppled due to lack of action over proven corruption in government.
I add this BBC story HERE (see below also) just as a matter for the record.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12056911
About 20,000 opposition supporters have held a major rally in Delhi against alleged corruption involving the ruling Congress-party led government.
The protesters gathered at the Ramlila ground in the centre of the Indian capital for the peaceful demonstration.
More Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-led rallies are planned across the country in the coming weeks.
India has seen a slew of graft cases linked to the Commonwealth Games, phone licences and homes for war widows.
Parliament has been deadlocked over opposition demands for a major inquiry into the so-called 2G spectrum scandal.
Mobile phone licences were sold for a fraction of their value, costing the government up to $37bn (£23bn) in lost revenue.
A Raja, who quit as telecommunications minister over the matter, is expected to be questioned in the next couple of days by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Mr Raja, who denies any wrongdoing, is a member of the DMK party, an important member of the Congress-led ruling coalition.
There is anger in India over a recent number of high-profile corruption casesWednesday's opposition protest comes days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a Congress party conference that he had "nothing to hide" from the 2G investigation.
He told a party meeting he was ready to be questioned by a parliamentary panel over the matter.
Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi told the same conference that graft was a "disease spreading through our society".
Another high-profile corruption inquiry is continuing into claims that organisers of the Delhi Commonwealth Games swindled millions of dollars from the October event.
Meanwhile, a scam involving homes for war widows going to cronies in Maharashtra prompted the Congress party last month to sack the chief minister of the western Indian state.
Here is another story on how the opposition party will target the incumbent Indian Prime Minister due to the reported corruption.
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And, read THIS story about how the Indian Opposition Political Party BJP is using anti-corruption as a mantra and now intends to involve the Indian Congress.
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