Reacting to police crackdown on Baba Ramdev's camp in the midnight at Delhi, the Anna Hazare team came out in open support for Baba Ramdev on Sunday, putting their differences aside. Speaking in Delhi, Hazare accused the government of throttling democracy, and said civil society would launch protests throughout the country to "teach government a lesson".

Anna Hazare, the original crusader against corruption and someone who was beginning to feel a bit uneasy with Ramdev's fellow campaigners, has now come out in his support. "There might have been some faults with Baba Ramdev's agitation but at midnight , beating up people - women, children and elderly - is a blot on democracy," Hazare said. He announced that he would sit on a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar on June 8. The newly-forged sympathy among civil society towards Ramdev Baba means that the government will now have to contend with a stronger opposition on its contentious proposal to keep the PM and higher judiciary outside the jurisdiction of the proposed Lokpal bill. There is a possibility that Baba, so far ambivalent on whether PM should be within the purview of Lokpal, may now support the Hazare group.