The members of the Anna team, including him took to a sit-in protest at Jantar mantar today, on the issue of ministerial corruption and a better Lokpal bill. Anna Hazare is going to undertake, hunger strike from 29th of July along with his team members, on the same issues.
The team Anna is accusing the latest presidential electee, Pranab Mukherjee too as one amongst the corrupt ministers. The countries prime minister too is not spared from this list of the corrupt ministers. But it looks like that the Anna team members are not united on many issues. The contradictions and confusion that prevailed, in labelling Pranab and the Manmohan themselves are an indication for this. Anna himself had spelt out that Manmohan is O.K, at a point of time, but has retracted now. Same is the Anna’s stand pertaining to Pranab.
This utter confusion and lack of cohesion, in the functioning of the Team Anna, has already disenchanted many people, about the veracity of this anti-corruption movement. Not only this the supposed power monging and the vested interest of some of the Anna team members themselves, have taken a toll on this movement. Such allegations have cropped up against Kiran Bedi and Arvind kejriwal and others too.
It is for these reasons the middle classes of our country, which are the staunchest supporters of this movement, lost their interest in this movement, to a larger extent. For this reason alone, the latest round of sit-in by the Anna team members at Jantar mantar could not attract much of the audience. Moreover the unethical tactics used by the leaders of the UPA Government, in tarnishing the image of this movement too should be remembered here. The secret meetings of these leaders, carried on with the people like Anna Hazare, were leaked to the press, thus taking a toll on the credibility of the Anna and his team members.
Thus these attempts of the Team Anna to put up resistance may turn out as only the last flickers of the candle that is getting extinguished. But, this single failure, in achieving the cherished objectives, should not discourage the countrymen, because any socio-political movement for that matter had not succeeded in the first instance itself, in the human history. Let us keep trying...Thomas Alva Edison...succeeded in making the current bulb...only after 9,999 failures!!!
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