World’s largest democracy India corruption campaign collides with old system as bottom-up pressure

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Graft campaigner leaves Indian elite ‘rattled’

AFP – Arvind Kejriwal chuckles as he considers how his all-out assault on corruption has united India’s political elite in outrage. “All politicians are part of a ruling fraternity, there is no opposition in this country,” says Kejriwal in an interview with AFP. “They are all hand in glove”.

Indian Premier Manmohan Singh brought seven new faces into his cabinet Sunday in the biggest reshuffle since his re-election as he tried to revive his party’s flagging fortunes before polls due in 2014. Singh named Salman Khurshid, 59, as a replacement for the 80-year-old foreign minister S.M. Krishna.