To express solidarity with Baba Ramdev’s agitation against corruption, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday left for Haridwar to meet the yoga guru.

The retirement of seven Supreme Court judges in the next four months is going have a major impact on some important cases with the “black money” matter to be the first causality as Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, heading the bench monitoring the probe into it is set to superannuate soon after reopening of the apex court on July 4.

Social activist Anna Hazare began a day-long fast here on Wednesday, saying the campaign against corruption was “the second freedom struggle”.

The Central probe agencies have started scrutinising details provided by Balkrishna, a close aide of Baba Ramdev, for getting a passport in 1998. According to sources, the agencies are probing whether he lied and provided false documents to get his passport.

Around 500 policemen were deployed in and around Rajghat in the capital on Wednesday as thousands of people joined veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare in his day-long fast against police action on yoga guru Baba Ramdev, the police said.

The Congress, on Tuesday, ruled out any alliance with the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the coming UP Assembly polls.

Chief of Enforcement Directorate Arun Mathur and officials of the finance ministry will brief the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the ongoing investigations into the 2G scam on Wednesday.

The Delhi high court is likely to pronounce the order on the bail plea of Rajya Sabha DMK MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday, along with that of Kalaignar TV CEO and MD Sharad Kumar, arrested and chargesheeted by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum scam case.

Against the backdrop of agitations demanding more openness and accountability in government functioning, defence minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said the country is going through a “transparency revolution” which can’t be stopped “midway”.

Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, P.C. Chacko on Tuesday said all former telecom ministers since 1998, including A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, who are facing allegations in connection with the issue, will depose before the panel.