08-25-2011, 07:52 PM
[size="5"][url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-saga-of-anna-hazares-fast-what-next/"]The saga of Anna Hazareââ¬â¢s fast. What next?[/url][/size]
Let's recount some facts:
1. People of the country are slowly getting ready to face the corruptors than to get along with them;
2. All political parties have been corrupt so there is no one beneficiary to the people's anger; This has resulted in Congress winning in Kerala. In Tamilnadu Raja's DMK was in the eye of the storm, thanks to Dr.Swamy, however, JJ as the head the opposition political party reaped the harvest as her own corruption paled into insignificance in the face of the enormity of fraud perpetrated on the people;
3. This has enabled non-political outfits to claim space. Congress tried to use Anna Hazare with his token fast to thwart Baba Ramdev taking cenre-stage as Sonia's coterie felt it would embolden the Hindus to set a political agenda. When Baba Ramdev defied the Govt. he was put down and banished. Babaji wanted to continue his 'Gandhian tactics' in Haridwar but he was advised by Dr.Swamy that the Gandhian tactic never bore fruit in the past and that the Congress would be happy to see him dead in far off Haridwar. Baba Ramdev saw the necessity to change tactics and gave up the fast;
4. The BJP as the leading opposition has its own baggage of corruption which was used and magnified by the Congress and this singularly affected its ability to lead a crusade against the Congress corruption. Didn't they play it well in Karnataka? Gujarat's Modi is a never ending target, is it not? There thus happened this space, this vaccuum that was sought to be filled by the 'civil society';
5. Anna Hazare, an ex army truck driver, with his simplicity and obvious ignorance of the art of governance exactly represented in spirit and in form the very genre of the multitude of Indians in every aspect. Yet he cannot blaze a trail of revolt and neither can his kadambam coterie of 'civil society' members. This limitation is to the great advantage of Sonia's mafia;
6. Anna Hazare's fast therefore is surely going to become a pressure not on the ruling UPA but on himself and his 'civil society'. The system is stable to the extent that neither Anna is strong enough to shake it nor is he well equipped to challenge it. As of the moment of this writing Hazare has made three demands to the Prime Minister--- (i) citizen's charter, (ii) lokayuktas in all states with Lokpal powers and (iii) inclusion of lowest to highest bureaucracy. A watered down version of this could be easily adopted by the parliament enabling Anna to end his fast.
7. This will put us back in square one on the question of stealing of national wealth and stashing it in foreign lands, on the question of writing laws such as the 2G scam so money is blatantly stolen in the name of lawful acquisition and so on - in essence the very character of parliamentary democracy, a system that has proved to be a breeding ground of corruption, deceit, fraud and treachery. One aspect of this system viz. the Judiciary can be used to resist it but ultimately a Hinduthwa revolution alone can defeat it.
Let's recount some facts:
1. People of the country are slowly getting ready to face the corruptors than to get along with them;
2. All political parties have been corrupt so there is no one beneficiary to the people's anger; This has resulted in Congress winning in Kerala. In Tamilnadu Raja's DMK was in the eye of the storm, thanks to Dr.Swamy, however, JJ as the head the opposition political party reaped the harvest as her own corruption paled into insignificance in the face of the enormity of fraud perpetrated on the people;
3. This has enabled non-political outfits to claim space. Congress tried to use Anna Hazare with his token fast to thwart Baba Ramdev taking cenre-stage as Sonia's coterie felt it would embolden the Hindus to set a political agenda. When Baba Ramdev defied the Govt. he was put down and banished. Babaji wanted to continue his 'Gandhian tactics' in Haridwar but he was advised by Dr.Swamy that the Gandhian tactic never bore fruit in the past and that the Congress would be happy to see him dead in far off Haridwar. Baba Ramdev saw the necessity to change tactics and gave up the fast;
4. The BJP as the leading opposition has its own baggage of corruption which was used and magnified by the Congress and this singularly affected its ability to lead a crusade against the Congress corruption. Didn't they play it well in Karnataka? Gujarat's Modi is a never ending target, is it not? There thus happened this space, this vaccuum that was sought to be filled by the 'civil society';
5. Anna Hazare, an ex army truck driver, with his simplicity and obvious ignorance of the art of governance exactly represented in spirit and in form the very genre of the multitude of Indians in every aspect. Yet he cannot blaze a trail of revolt and neither can his kadambam coterie of 'civil society' members. This limitation is to the great advantage of Sonia's mafia;
6. Anna Hazare's fast therefore is surely going to become a pressure not on the ruling UPA but on himself and his 'civil society'. The system is stable to the extent that neither Anna is strong enough to shake it nor is he well equipped to challenge it. As of the moment of this writing Hazare has made three demands to the Prime Minister--- (i) citizen's charter, (ii) lokayuktas in all states with Lokpal powers and (iii) inclusion of lowest to highest bureaucracy. A watered down version of this could be easily adopted by the parliament enabling Anna to end his fast.
7. This will put us back in square one on the question of stealing of national wealth and stashing it in foreign lands, on the question of writing laws such as the 2G scam so money is blatantly stolen in the name of lawful acquisition and so on - in essence the very character of parliamentary democracy, a system that has proved to be a breeding ground of corruption, deceit, fraud and treachery. One aspect of this system viz. the Judiciary can be used to resist it but ultimately a Hinduthwa revolution alone can defeat it.