Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/361778/Congress-faces-its-Kandahar.html"]Congress faces its Kandahar[/url]

There are two principal lessons for the Congress from the past week. First, it can continue to pretend the issue is one of a battle between competing versions of the Lok Pal Bill — the Government draft and the activists’ draft. That is not how most people see it. They are not so much supporting Mr Hazare and his Jan Lok Pal Bill — which, let it be said, is severely flawed and no guarantor of a corruption-free India — as they are showing their hostility to a Government they regard as insensitive.



People don’t turn against a Government, much less come out on the streets, over any one issue. It is usually a combination. In this case, corruption — especially egregious and publicly visible corruption in the form of the Commonwealth Games swindle — has been complemented by inflation, economic uncertainty and a sense of listlessness in the UPA regime.