Ever since Anna withdrew from the agitation due to his ailment, a new breed of critics have emerged from nowhere questioning the very basis of the movement launched by Anna Team against corruption. To them this movement was against democracy, not against corruption. They suggest that by launching this agitation the team Anna has committed a blasphemy of sorts. When the movement was at its apogee everybody seemed to find fault with the government that had not been able to bring in a legislation for lokpal in the last four decades. Everybody then seemed to enjoy the sprint that Anna Hazare took at the Ramlila Maidan. Media too seemed to enjoy the spectacle as it showed the sprint 24x7. We had witnessed similar trend during Baba Ramdev's agitation. Everything was hunky-dory till that midnight coup. After that unsavoury incident--the Delhi police is still under cloud as it is hard put to explain its conduct on that fateful night, a new crop of critics have emerged from all over the places finding fault with Baba Ramdev and the government going all out to kill the spirit of Baba Ramdev. They are repeating this with Anna Hazare and his team.
Some of the new critics--some sponsored by the government--say this movement is against the very spirit of democracy because the movement seemed to attack democratic institutions. They too seem to lend credence to the theory floated by the political masters that parliament is supreme and those occupying the space in the parliament are the masters of all they survey notwithstanding the quality of conduct of those masters. First thing first. Parliament is the creation of the constitution which is the creation by the people who gave themselves this constitution. If people had not given themselves this constitution, there would not have been parliament and consequently no parliamentarians.
Left to them, what they have brought India to is well recorded everywhere. While corruption has entered and vitiated all aspects of public and private life, another dimension is added to it. Our bureaucrats are termed as the worst in Asia. If this is not shame what shame is? PM says 42% of our children are malnourished and underfed and calls it a national shame. To speak the truth, this government and the prime minister in particular is the national shame and national disaster. But look at the way they are now targeting Anna whose only fault, if it be, was that he gave a new awakening to soporific India. Anna may have withdrawn because of the obvious reasons. But these politicians have no reason to celebrate. Mumbai chapter failed because of two reasons: the chill of Delhi that forced Anna to move his battery to Mumbai where money alone counts and Anna's call to the countrymen to restrict themselves to their own places.
Left to them, what they have brought India to is well recorded everywhere. While corruption has entered and vitiated all aspects of public and private life, another dimension is added to it. Our bureaucrats are termed as the worst in Asia. If this is not shame what shame is? PM says 42% of our children are malnourished and underfed and calls it a national shame. To speak the truth, this government and the prime minister in particular is the national shame and national disaster. But look at the way they are now targeting Anna whose only fault, if it be, was that he gave a new awakening to soporific India. Anna may have withdrawn because of the obvious reasons. But these politicians have no reason to celebrate. Mumbai chapter failed because of two reasons: the chill of Delhi that forced Anna to move his battery to Mumbai where money alone counts and Anna's call to the countrymen to restrict themselves to their own places.
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