Visiting Jantar Mantar where Gandhian activist Anna Hazare was on fast for a joint panel to draft the Lokpal Bill, may have misled people that the numbers were not impressive. But his supporters clearly were
Visiting Jantar Mantar where Gandhian activist Anna Hazare was on fast for a joint panel to draft the Lokpal Bill, may have misled people that the numbers were not impressive. But his supporters clearly were.
Even with the IPL kicking off, the entire country was more closely following this crusader taking on the mighty Goliath aka Bharat Sarkar.
The Dilli sarkar clearly was inevitably slow to wake up to this new "threat", going by initial reactions. But the image of a 72-year-old diminutive Gandhian taking on the high and mighty on corruption struck the right chord with the media and the aam aadmi, who is fed up with the scams and overwhelming corruption.
Working out a compromise with the fasting leader was then the only way out of this sticky situation for the government.
Fight and flee!Though Dilli is far from the election battlefields of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, yet there is a lot more riding on the results than just new state governments, as the scam-tainted Manmohan Singh sarkar knows only too well. So, even though summer hasn't fully set in, political temperatures are running high. How will the DMK fare after the revelations of the 2G scam, and how confidently will Mamata Banerjee storm into Writers Building in Kolkata? Will Congress manage to hold on in Assam and will the Left be left behind in the dust in Kerala? The answers to these questions are of overwhelming importance to the jittery netas in Dilli.
But whatever the outcome, longtime observers of politics and its practitioners are already certain of what will happen after May 13, when the votes are counted: the annual migration of netas to foreign shores. After the gruelling election drive, there's nothing like the call of cooler climes of Europe or the Americas. Right now, it must be an extremely tempting vision!
