India has been phenomenal in terms of giving birth to the leaders that lead the country to a devastating future. Before independence a man who was earlier practicing law in South Africa left everything and came back to India to free the nation from colonial rule. India remembers this man as Gandhi and since childhood we are taught the role Gandhi played in the freedom of the country. Why we never dare to speak about the impact that Gandhi’s revolution had? Are we not ready to accept the fact that Partition of 1947 was an outcome of a bad leadership? The truth is that Indians are born intelligent but some are gifted with the ability to sense the opportunity and some are gifted with an obsession for the nation. The former will pretend to be a Gandhian .The latter will be a pure soul and fail because of his obsession. Nation itself is the prime witness of what happened on 23rd march 1931 when three young men were hanged who were actually the obsessed lovers of the nation.
Gandhi was an outcome of the colonialism in India who sensed the opportunity of leading the nation that had become poor and where people had become slaves in their own country. No, doubt some of his revolutions actually pushed the Britishers to free the country but Gandhi failed to demonstrate his leadership where he should had and compromised on Bhagat Singh’s death sentence and later compromised on country’s partition. Becoming a revolutionary in this country is easy as it’s easy to influence the sentiments of the poor Indians and take advantage of it anytime and this is what we’ve been witnessing for the last 100 years.
What we’ve witnessed from 5th to 9th April on Jantar Mantar was a result of mere public agitation against the system. Anna played his best cards as he sensed the opportunity at the right time when country has witnessed major scams like 2G spectrum, Adarsh society and common wealth. He took advantage of the public agitation and influenced the sentiments of the poor Indians and sat on his fast after media has already exposed major scams. Anna sensed that he had already won half the battle and he should thank media for this that exposed the government. The only thing that was left to be won was the public support and that too came as soon as media started supporting the mission. People supported the mission blindly without even knowing the basics of the JanLokPal bill. The only thing they were concerned about is the old man sitting on fast who is claiming to be fighting for the nation.
Youth support was recognizable but what our youth has failed to understand is that corruption is the outcome of our society that lacks equality in status and economic conditions and what they supported blindly will not bring any change that could address the core cause of the corruption. Even if India would produce a dozen of Anna overnight the entire Anna brigade would fail to eradicate corruption because if inequality in socio economic status will not be addressed how material corruption could vanish?
This was not the first time when youth was under the influence of some old man sitting on fast claiming to be fighting for the nation and somewhere compromised with the government in the end as Gandhi and Nehru did during Partition of the nation and now Anna and Party did by agreeing to the condition that drafting of the bill will be recorded but there will be no telecast. What’s the use then if public who gathered in support of this old man will not be able to see what has been drafted in the bill and under what circumstances? No, doubt that from a being a social activist to being a revolutionary Anna covered this journey in just 4 days. While it took Gandhi 30 years to be remembered as a revolutionary and no doubt if Anna walks into politics it will take him just 3 years to throw the UPA government and NDA’s new era will begin in 2014.
During his fast Anna gave clear indications of being influenced by Nazism as he praised Adolf Hitler and then an unusual thing happened when an old man claiming to be fighting for the nation started praising Gujarat CM and people were surprised see this sudden change in their revolutionary praising a CM who directed one of the most horrifying genocidal episodes in the Indian history. If growth and development is the only measurement for a CM to be claimed as successful at the cost of human lives then it is better to live under dictatorship than being in a democracy. Anna clearly gave his indications of being a rightist and this could be in favor of BJP if at some point of time Anna joins the BJP crusade.
Nothing much will change for the poor Indians as issue is not the corruption that Anna raised but the inequality in society that has been left untouched post independence rather Anna has taught the nation how to fight for illegitimate demands and become a revolutionary overnight. The only condition is that the time of hitting the target should be right as in Gandhi’s and Anna’s case. Anna’s lesson to the nation will lead to a devastating future when some third grade unknown social activist would sit on fast and play his/her cards on public sentiments claiming to be fighting for the nation and people would join the crusade without knowing the actual issue and the basis of the demands.
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