Activist Anna Hazare broke his indefinite hunger strike on Thursday evening at Ramleela ground. Hazare made the announcements after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assured him that the government has agreed to his demands.

Hazare said the government has agreed to a new formula of providing minimum support price (MSP) to the farmers. The 80-year-old activist was on indefinite hunger strike since March 23 demanding three major reforms – concrete policies for farmers, appoinment of Lokpal (ombudsman) and electoral reforms.

Farmers from Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and other states had joined Anna’s protest. Over 200 protestors from Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur were observing hunger strike with Hazare.

According to Hazare, the government has agreed to provide the MSP based on C3+50 per cent formula, that is, the investment, labour cost and interest on the capital invested, in addition to 50 per cent of this sum. Fourth demand is to provide individual insurance for each farmer’s crops. “The government has given assurance to implement these proposals within six months. I will wait for six months, until August,” said Hazare. “If it doesn’t happen, will start another agitation from September.”

Hazare said that the government has agreed to appoint Lokpal as soon as possible. On the demands of electoral reforms, that is, Right to recall and reject, the government seems to have played safe.

“The government said that Right to recall and Right to reject comes under Election Commission and we will forward these demands to the ECI,” Hazare said. He also mentioned that CM Fadnavis and Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan played an instrumental role in getting the demands cleared by the government.