Anna is a very
impatient and petulant person today. He earned for himself public glory and support
from all sides when he had successfully embarked on the first fast to death for
the Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi. The UPA government had got panicky and knelt down.
The team Anna must have capitalized on UPA-predicament with a sound strategy and
sagacious future planning but instead; he rushed rash to another fast in Mumbai
which turned out to be a fiasco. He did not learn from his embarrassing mistake
and proceeded again to launch yet another fast without intense popular
support. The weapon of fast unto death should have been utilized as the last
resort as a psychological-tactical warfare. This time the media was also
blackmailed, coerced and won over by the government. Thus shorn of media and
public support the good intentioned movement petered out miserably.
Now another
blunder of Anna is his decision to enter into electoral politics through
forming his own outfit. This mission of his is bound to come a cropper. We have
example of U.P where the S.P. came into power on tactical voting by minorities
on totally communal basis. Otherwise a party known for corruption, bad
governance and rowdism in the past could not have come to power again. Castism and
communal vote-politics is a hard reality which Anna and his team cannot
surmount. Had they been a bit wiser they would have supported a political party
that is less corruptible, less immoral and less debased.
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