.And if Anna wins, the nature of Indian politics will
change. Only because this I support ANNA.
Students, Police those who indulge in corrupt practices only because system
led by the Higher classes make them compel to do so.
Once the system don't allow them to do so, they will be the most happiest of
all.
Sushanta Kar
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Altaf Mazid altafma...@gmail.com wrote:
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Date: 19 August 2011 15:37
Subject: [Fropki] Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
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Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
CP Surendran
18 August 2011
A most comical anti-corruption opera is being staged all over the
country under the leadership of Anna Hazare, who in his moral tyranny
is actually beginning to look like Mahatma Gandhi. This itself is a
bit of laugh: when a man wants to be someone else eventually
transmigration of the soul and nose happens. It only remains for Anna
to hold the Dandi March.
But the real reason why this anti-corruption campaign is looking like
an over-stretched Johnny Lever joke is that the people largely
constituting the movement have happily externalized corruption as if
it's an event happening outside themselves.
The fact is that the petite bourgeoisie-auto rickshaw drivers, and
constables, if Haryana Police Sangathan support for Jan Lok Pal's bill
is any indication, and low paid government officials and assorted
elements-have no idea that they are very much part of the corruption.
They believe it is a disease outside them, primarily endemic to the
government and its institutions, when they are active players in the
drama.
The others who are a part of the movement, including the youngsters,
who this lookist country swears by, are there for an opportunity to
hold candles and chant Sarojini Naidu kind of poems which normally
begin: O, deliverer… The youth will hold a candle and even burn a
finger from the dripping wax, but when it comes to admission, if an
IIT director or an engineering college dean will accept cash for
seats, they will gladly part with it.
For one with passing interest in the Lokpal politics, the only major
difference in the bills drafted by the government and Anna apart from
bringing the PM into the bill's ambit, seems to be that the government
wants to set up a separate investigative agency while Anna and his
team want an existing investigating agency like the CBI to report to
the Lokpal committee. That would eventually mean the Lokpal evolving
into a parallel power vortex, and might make Parliament redundant.
In other words, those whom you elected will not be of as much
consequence as those self-appointed or government nominated Lokpal
committee members. That is a fraught process, and actually might
create more unaccountability and corruption.
That is one part of the joke. The other, equally entertaining part has
been the Congress-led UPA government's complete and visible bankruptcy
of ideas to tackle an agitation outside party structures. Much the
same happened before the Emergency when Jayaparakash Naryan led a
movement that cut across party lines against the Indira Gandhi led
Congress government, which panicked and declared an Emergency.
Anna's movement is mostly apolitical. And the support it has drawn,
for all its faults, is an indication how political parties and other
democratic institutions have failed to represent people, or inspire
faith. Across the world, memberships of political parties are
decreasing. Alternate people's groupings with environmental and
ethical themes are gaining strength. In Europe and America where
democracies are institutionally stronger and fairer than in India,
this could be explained as an evolution.
But, in India where fairness woven into the system is at best fraying,
when a movement is directed primarily against its institutions and the
political party in power as well as the ones in Opposition are
fumbling in their response, a movement like this can have dire
consequences. Clearly, the parties have failed to represent the
people, which is why a moral tyrant like Anna is holding the
government to ransom. When institutions fail, individuals take up
their role. .And if Anna wins, the nature of Indian politics will
change.
It'd be fun to see who were the advisors who landed a wimp like Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh into the Lok Pal soup. A party that can't
argue its case against a retired army truck driver whose only strength
really is a kind of stolid integrity and a talent for skipping meals
doesn't deserve to be in power. Power goes to people who love it. Anna
Hazare loves nothing more than power.
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