Anna Hazare to start UP tour on June 23

Lucknow: Social activist Anna Hazare would start a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fourth phase of his Jantantra Yatra, on June 23.

Anna`s associate Ramdheeraj on Saturday said that the yatra, started with the objective of uniting youth and farmers to make the country corruption free, would enter Uttar Pradesh on the date after touring Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. The fourth phase of the yatra would cover Bareilly, Farukkhabad, Azamgarh, Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi, Jaunpur and culminate at Allahabad with a public meeting at Anglo-Bengali inter college on July 4, he said. A convention of Jantantra Morcha workers would be held in Allahabad the next day, he also said. PTI