Anna, Baba Ramdev...Who Next???

The Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh duo can not escape the consequences of lathi charging over 65,000  peaceful protesters in the dead of the night. The strategy to question the integrity of Baba Ramdev at this stage has been cooked in cunning heads that can not think beyond power. The men, the women and the children who had gathered at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi were not thugs. Why were they lathi charged? Whatever might be the duration of the Indian public memory, this question will haunt the Congress for a long-long time.

The BJP heads are no less cunning. The party wants to ride to power on the shoulders of Baba Ram Dev and Anna Hazare. LK Advani had promised to bring back black money during the run up to the last general elections. There were no takers. No one trusts the BJP on corruption. The RSS and the BJP are hoping that the Congress will fall on its own. They just need to prevent the emergence of a third alternative. What better way to prevent this emergence than positioning itself behind those whom the masses trust. The Annas and Ramdevs will surely loose credibility if they are seen as stooges of the BJP or the Congress. Both the Congress and the BJP are in alliance on one front. Both want to discredit the leadership churning process that is currently underway in India. The Congress is making its noises through Digvijay Singh while the BJP is doing so just by mere association.

Every political party in India has tried its best to attract masses by making all kinds of noises on corruption. None has succeeded. On the issue of corruption people have chosen to trust Anna Hazare and Ramdev. Why else have lakhs of Indians responded to calls of Anna Hazare and Ramdev?

Sonia Gandhi has unleashed Digvijay Singh on Baba Ramdev. What does the Congress party want to prove by calling him a thug? Why are the jets, helicopters and properties of someone who was welcomed by four Union ministers at the airport being mentioned now? Why was an 'allegedly corrupt' Baba Ramdev acceptable to the Congress up to the very last moment, Just because the cunning heads thought that Baba Ramdev would be powerless before them, the moment they dangled his property details before him? And when he didn't, the cops were asked to move in. If you can't divide them crush them, all in the name of saving democracy.

Who stands to gain if the fight against corruption started by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev turns into a Congress versus BJP battle? There is hardly a politician who does not have a corruption stain. How can the corrupt let someone from outside their genre question their conduct? The Congress and the BJP have slogged it out amongst themselves several times in the past. Every time the issue of corruption became the casualty. Both these parties don't want this to change. Corruption can never be an issue in a Congress versus BJP fight.

All those who had gathered at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi had gathered against corruption. They had come from across the country. The pain of the blows that they took was felt by those who feel against corruption. The pain is now being felt across the country. The politicians will pay a heavy price. It's just the beginning. Shoes will fly at public meetings.

Our present leader Manmohan Singh should have been our leader irrespective of his party, but he is struck with  money over people and their welfare. Those who are coming out of their houses on calls from Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare are searching for leadership. Its high time to stop believing the parties and their words and taking actions by supporting the leaders emerging from the shadows. The leadership count shouldn’t be stopped for Anna and Baba as 2 men with support of over a lakh people cant change the system and take on 4050 MLAs and 545 MPs all alone.

Either now or never. Lets do what we can do at our best to change the system. TOGETHER WE CAN.

Thanks,

Manoj.M.Koushik

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