On Monday 22 Aug 2011 10:47:00 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Its a nice negotiating tactic I use with > vegeatable vendors, but are you sure AH will wind down this charade once a > saner bill passes through? > > If you have such inside information from a reliable source, even I might > join the party. >
May I ask an equally rhetorical question? if you manage to haggle and get the price of onions down would you then abstain from haggling over potatoes having obtained a saner price for onions? Based on this logic I would expect that Anna Hazare would go right ahead and start agitating for something else - but let me predict what will happen when the new issue crops up. 1. The government will first agree to constitute a committee of private individuals to negotiate a draft bearing Anna's proposals 2. They will accept it and then haggle with that draft and try and water it down. 3. Having been led halfway up the garden path and getting the government to negotiate with him in the firat place, Hazare will one again threaten to go on a hunger strike. 4. The government will then arrest him and facilitate a law an order crisis for themselves 5. The government will then say OK but you are allowed to commit half-suicide by starving only for 1 week 6. Then the government says "OK by all means starve yourself to death, but don't do it at venue X, do it at venue Y". 7. The government will then release him but he will stay in jail while the government goes into a huddle. Basically the fun part for me is how the government shot itself in the foot while Anna Hazare picked up supporters. Baba Ramdev was a comic interlude in which the government got some practice at aiming at its own foot and missed. I guess they hoped to miss their broad and flat foot again when it was Hazare's turn. shiv
