I was amazed to see a person in his late 60’s talking about Anna in a local train at Tambaram amidst shouts of Tea, Coffee and Samosa and guess – what? He don’t know about Jan Lokpall bill.
Thumbs up to Anna and his team for bringing the 2 India’s together, which is rare to see in our nation except on the occasion of cricket matches. The moment had gathered support not just from the upper middle class, it goes – well beyond the dabbawallas of Mumbai. But is this what the ‘Nav Nirman India’ wants?
It is a clear undermining of democracy, you cannot dictate legislation. This moment is setting a wrong precedent for the largest democracy of the world. 64 years of democracy in peril. Anna saying this as a second freedom struggle is turning our first freedom struggle a farce.
I wish to use the few lines from the shobhaa De’s blog. It goes like this “Anna is the messenger. Not the message. The cause is far bigger than the individual. Take away those TV cameras, and front page coverage, and see what happens. Everybody is jumping onto the Anna bandwagon, even those who don't quite know what this is all about. Let's not confuse issues and personalities.”
I see people having placards stating “I am Anna”, “I support Anna”. Is this what the issue is? Team Anna fighting for a good cause, by mistake are polarizing the community – those who support Anna and those who don’t. I feel pathetic for those kind of people who spew venom on social networking sites for speaking against Anna and his team.
It’s a mere desperation of people of India to fill someone as their leader and he came at a right time to fill the vacuum, Anna - Self proclaimed Gandhian. Ufff…Please leave Gandhi here at least. A Gandhian never shows disrespect by burning copies of Lok Pall bill passed by the parliament. Anna quick to react, I believe in parliament, but not in parliamentarians. What does it means or to infer? Are people of India, so stupid to elect people – who are not trust-worthy? So, Anna doesn’t believe us either? But he wants our support. People today are in streets not for Jan Lok Pall bill, they are in streets due to frustration from corruption, price rise and for a change. Gandhi can make Dandi, a place unknown to a historical place. Why not Anna accept the condition as JP Park as a fast venue instead of RamLila Maidan? Well, Cameras - light up bright in Ram Lila maidan!
A Gandhian strategy – Some people in team Anna are Kiran Bedi - former IPS officer, Arvind Kejriwal - social activist, Prashant Bushan – noted lawyer, Shanti Bushan – former law minister in the Morarji desai cabinet, Manish Sisodia – former Zee news producer and Shazia Ilmi – former lead anchor with Star News. A good set of recipe for the perfect climax. Strategy followed, no breaking news or important press conferences on Saturdays and Sundays. This is when no debate takes place, because lead anchors take a day-off and channels run pre-recorded shows. Also during the 2.30pm and 7.30pm slots, when the vernacular channels runs saas – bahu news and sports news respectively.
At the end, does Jan Lok Pall Bill ends Corruption? A big ‘NO’ – Leave the Lok Pall bill, even the Jan Lok Pall bill, touches the creamy layer of executives. PM, judiciary – well another parallel government in running. The bill doesn’t cover what an ordinary citizen of India is looking for. It doesn’t stop a traffic constable taking bribe on the roadside accountable or freedom from touts in the railway station or a person taking bribe for changing the caste certificate from FC to BC, why not MBC? The bill doesn’t cover either the corporate big houses. Why the creamy layer of executives? This is the place where the decibel levels are high.
I was really surprised to hear Prashant Bushan – one of the minds behind the Jan Lok pall bill, talking about the referendum in a news channel. He went a step forward to pitch on the Indo – US nuclear deal. Country like India, where the sizeable chunk are illiterate, do they know the complexities involved on these issues. Tomorrow, lets have a referendum on Kashmir, Telengana and also, why not on the budget of our nation?
The GOI is to be blamed for such a mess in the society and also a leaderless opposition.
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