I
have a friend in Facebook who is consistently posting comments criticizing
every move of Anna Hazare and I am not able to make sense of it. He doesn't like his crusade against the Congress. He feels that Anna is targeting Congress only. May be he is a big time Congress supporter. I do not think even if he is a Congress supporter, he should hate Anna. Even if he hates Anna, he can still stand against corruption or support a movement to root out corruption.
I do not know whether Anna’s fight against corruption has any self-interest. I
really don’t know whether he is doing it with deep love for the country. A Congress
leader even goes to the extent of targeting Anna and his team of being corrupt
themselves. I myself do not know whether Anna or any member in
his team is corrupt.
Just
for a moment let us all believe that Anna Hazare is the most corrupt person in
the whole world and his team too is involved neck deep in corruption. Now if
this is really true, then he should definitely be eligible to feature
in the Guinness book of world records. You will ask me, why? Show me one person
in the entire world who is a thief and is fighting hard to bring a law to
punish thieves. So, if Anna is corrupt and still fighting hard against
corruption, then he should definitely get recognition for this.
Every
political party in this country is corrupt. There is no party out there whom we
can single out and say that it is free of corruption. Anna is targeting Congress
right now. I do not see anything wrong in this. Most scams have happened during
Congress rule. The biggest scams of recent times have the involvement of the Congress
government. So, what is wrong if Congress is targeted? Moreover, the Congress
party had tried to suppress and oppress a peaceful agitation. If they were
clean, why should they fear one man? Why they tried hard to malign Anna’s image
when he was on a fast unto death? If Congress had any credibility then they
should have fought a battle on principles rather than stooping low and make
false allegations against Anna. One of the Congress spokesperson later on had
apologized for insulting him. This indicates how much apprehension the
Congressmen have in their minds for Anna Hazare. I have not seen such a
confused Prime Minister since I started following politics.
Whether
you hate Anna or love Anna or just admire him. I have a simple statement to
make here. The man is not important; it is the mission that matters. Do not
support Anna Hazare if you do not wish to but what stops you from fighting for
a strong law against corruption. With or without Anna, a strong law against
corruption is the need of the hour. Let us unite and fight for it.
