Anna Hazare has been detained from an apartment that he was staying in today morning after police reportedly failed to persuade him to call off his fast to defy prohibitory orders and stage a protest at Jai Prakash Narain Park in Delhi.
The Parliament witnessed uproarious scenes shortly after it assembled for the ongoing monsoon session over the arrest. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned amid noisy scenes and arguments between the opposition and treasury benches.
The Congress seems to be totally at sea when it comes to dealing with Anna Hazare on corruption. They don’t seem to realize that situation like these have to be dealt with good political wisdom. The party has made three lawyers – P. Chidambaran, Kapil Sibal and Manish Tiwari, in charge of handling the Hazare team.
They probably are trying to match the father-son duo lawyer team in the Hazare team. Whoever made the decision to unleash the three on Hazare before he is to begin his fast has obviously not been in touch with the ground realities.
First, they try to argue that the civil society is trying to subvert the parliamentary democracy. They don’t realize that the common man is disenchanted with their own political representatives. When this method failed, they presented their own draft of the bill, which the Hazare team called it the Jokepal Bill.
When even this did not work, the next step was vengeful and naïve. They thought of discrediting Anna Hazare himself. . Manish Tewari went to town by digging out an old report of a Commission to prove Anna as corrupt. Then Sibal joined to question the source of funding of Anna's movement. Chidambaram added that Anna's fast would be forcibly ended.
When they failed to get any reactions on this from the newspapers, they have now detained Anna from entering J P Park. What the Congress is unable to grasp is that the issue is now not “their bill and our bill” but the whole issue of corruption itself. The Congress is not able to convince the civic society that they are against corruption.
The government is not realising that Anna is articulating the emotion of distress of the people in response to rampant corruption. The Congress desperately needs someone in authority who is able to think politically. And Prime Minister Manmohan Singh definitely is not that man.
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