The latest round of exchanges between Anna Hazare and the Government proves just one thing: The Congress has not learnt anything.
Of course the government was not going to do anything on Lokpal bill. The whole episode reminded me of the way my mother would deal with my brother's tantrums. He would demand the moon and my mother would promise him the moon, the sun, and the stars. No problems. My mother had no intentions of keeping any of the promises as my brother would discover to his chagrin. Similarly, the government promised Team Anna and as soon as the fast was over, the government conveniently forgot all about it. It is completely another point whether the Lokpal bill would have done anything to the rampant corruption. It is also another point what do we define as corruption. The point is that the Congress dealt the threat with rash promises.
However, unlike my brother who was helpless against the authority, Anna Hazare plans to use other weapons at his disposal. The next thing that he plans to do is to ask voters to not vote for Congress in the Hissar by-elections. That has started a spate of idiotic comments from both camps. Arvind Kejriwal has declared that Anna was above the Parliament (oh really)! The Congress says that Anna should not meddle with politics and should leave politics to professional politicians. Now the latest is that they believe that BJP wants to nominate Anna for President. The mind boggles.
I have no idea whether the Hissar voters will listen to him or not but the Congress is completely rattled.
Of course the government was not going to do anything on Lokpal bill. The whole episode reminded me of the way my mother would deal with my brother's tantrums. He would demand the moon and my mother would promise him the moon, the sun, and the stars. No problems. My mother had no intentions of keeping any of the promises as my brother would discover to his chagrin. Similarly, the government promised Team Anna and as soon as the fast was over, the government conveniently forgot all about it. It is completely another point whether the Lokpal bill would have done anything to the rampant corruption. It is also another point what do we define as corruption. The point is that the Congress dealt the threat with rash promises.
However, unlike my brother who was helpless against the authority, Anna Hazare plans to use other weapons at his disposal. The next thing that he plans to do is to ask voters to not vote for Congress in the Hissar by-elections. That has started a spate of idiotic comments from both camps. Arvind Kejriwal has declared that Anna was above the Parliament (oh really)! The Congress says that Anna should not meddle with politics and should leave politics to professional politicians. Now the latest is that they believe that BJP wants to nominate Anna for President. The mind boggles.
I have no idea whether the Hissar voters will listen to him or not but the Congress is completely rattled.
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