The past few days i have been very disappointed with the tension going on between the aam aadmi party members and anna hazare.I always thought that after the spectacular showing of the AAP in delhi elections just a week ago will convince even the most die-hard hater of AAP that what they did was pathbreaking,something that has never been done before in india.
But to my dismay even the people who once were the allies of arvind kejriwal like anna hazare and kiren bedi have started behaving like digvijay singh!!Anna has been particularly arrogant towards the AAP even though they never deviated from their ideology ensuring a very clean fought election without use of any black money,muscle power or corrupt candidates in the fray.They used mostly unpaid volunteers,mainly college students for door to door campaigns but here were some ppl who had taken leave from their respective jobs to campaign for this party.The results of this effort were for all to see...........decimation of congress and halt to modi wave in delhi,pretty impressive if u ask me.
So whats anna's problem now??
In my opinion its the massive ago of anna hazare to blame.Before the AAP was formed all the focus was on hazare,he was the poster boy of anti-corruption movement,darling of media and middle class alike.He was perceived as a modern gandhi ,out to root out corruption.But after the formation of the AAP most of the brains behind the movement left the hazare camp and formed AAP and as a result hazare too hasen't done anything in the past 1 year.He was good only with good planning and backing of people like kejriwal and prashant bhushan and many others.The moment these ppl got engaged in AAP campaigning anna was left to fend for himself and as expected his hype bubble was burst in no time.The man who had the whole nation behind him was struggling to draw crowds of even a few dozen in his village.In contrast to this AAP decimated congress in delhi without a shred of help from hazare at all.
Contrast this with the man of the moment,arvind kejriwal.He has left all his lucrative jobs for this movement unlike hazare who lives in a village and gets pension every month so has done nothing out of the ordinary.Kejriwal and other members of AAP to their credit have never taken a single pot shot at hazare despite the latter's vehement critisism of AAP on at the best frivolous grounds.They still tried to give all the credit to anna hazare unlike hazare himself who ordered gopal rai out of his village yesterday!!Who is anna hazare to push someone out??Anti corruption movement is not the patent of anna hazare or even the AAP,its a movement built on the support of people and not invented by hazare.
So all in all it is the guru jealous of his shishya's success,nothing more.I just feel sad that a man who commanded such high moral standards could stoop so low as to train his guns at the same set of ppl who helped him to gain all the limelight that he enjoyed.
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