Gandhi cap Gandhi cap The Gandhi cap () is a white coloured sidecap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band. It is made out of "khadi". It takes its name after the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, who first popularised its use during the Indian independence movement. Worn commonly by Indian independence activists, it became a symbolic tradition for politicians and political activists to wear it in independent India. The Gandhi cap emerged in India during the First Non-cooperation movement during 1918–1921. when it became the standard Congress dress as popularized by Gandhi. In 1921, the British government tried to
Anna Hazare the satyagraha movement campaigning for the passing a stronger anti-corruption "Lokpal" (ombudsman) bill in the Indian parliament. Known as the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill), this had been drafted by N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal a social activist. The draft incorporated more stringent provisions and gave wider power to the "Lokpal" than the government's 2010 draft. These included placing "the Prime Minister within the ambit of the proposed lokpal's powers". Hazare began an "indefinite fast" on 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in