The Manmohan Singh government continues to send postmen to negotiate with the Anna Hazare team as the latters fast crosses the two hundred hour mark. And postmen being merely postmen continue to spout the line handed over to them – parliamentary procedures cannot be short-circuited.
There are no decision takers in the team of postmen appointed by the government to discuss the demands set by Anna Hazare and hence the talks fail to reach any conclusion. The Prime Minister continues to be a dummy who prefers not to talk, and in the absence of Sonia Gandhi, maintains a stoic silence.
The acting chief Rahul Gandhi who is known more for inserting his foot in mouth every time he opens his mouth to talk, has probably been advised to keep it shut. His advisors prefer to send him to distant villages on Quixotic missions to keep him away from the television cameras and their awkward questions.
Meanwhile congress party spokesmen prefer to attempt to divide the civic society by roping in prominent personalities and writers to create an anti-Hazare wave, and still fail. The leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley hit the hammer on the head, when he said that the enormity of protests is proportionate to the public anger and the enormity of the anger is proportionate to the corruption.
The government is not willing to draft a strong bill on the argument that a Lokpal bill alone cannot tackle corruption. Manmohan Singh said that he does not have a magic wand to rid the country of corruption. But he doesn’t realize that no country tackles corruption with magic wands.
It needs only a committed government which does not tolerate corruption to end corruption. And the Manmohan Singh government clearly doesn’t want corruption to end. It is obviously more concerned about maintaining status quo.
Anna Hazare has rightly said that this is the second fight for freedom. The fight is more important because politics has become a family business and corruption has become the tool for increasing the fiscal status of the family business.
The government has with their inability to draft an appropriate Lokpal Bill have let down the people who have elected them. And Anna Hazare needs all the support he can get to fight a battle which he is doing for you and me.
We desperately need to win this fight!
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