India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed to anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare to end his public hunger strike and proposed that parliament debate his demands after an apparent breakdown in talks with the self-styled Gandhian activist. The 74-year-old Anna Hazare has been on a hunger fast for 10 days demanding India pass a new anti-corruption law. On Wednesday, he vowed to continue the fast until death.

Anna Hazare, anti-corruption activist: “The government is still not agreeing to these issues, showcasing that they have no intention to fight corruption. And this is why I have decided that for as long as I am alive and until the government agrees on all these issues, I will not step back, even if I have to die.”