Anna flip-flops:

As reported on 2^nd Dec 12 by TOI, Anna Hazare had retracted from his early stand drifting from kejriwal, to support the good candidates put up by his Party and not to support the “good” candidates of other parties. That drift was in the right direction. Supporting the “good” candidates of other parties by Anna in the fight against corruption would be self defeating the combined cause of Anna and Kejriwal as it is abundantly clear now by the revelations of Kejriwal that all the parties are corrupt. Their “good” candidates would listen to their parties and not to Anna once they are elected and all the efforts of Anna in getting them elected would go waste. Now on 7 Dec 12 TOI reports that in yet another flip-flop activist Anna Hazare blamed Arvind Kejriwal’s “fascination” for power for the split in the anti-graft movement and said that he won’t vote for “power greedy” Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He did not clarify as to what makes him think that Kejriwal is power hungry and not true to the cause of Corruption. Has he not seen the manifesto on A A P web site and listened Kejriwal’s speech, plan of action and videos clarifying his party’s stand? Kejriwal is on record saying that he would not fight election if the Jan Lokpal is passed by the government. Did the government listen to Anna, Ramdev and Kejriwal’s pleas against corruption? He decided to fight elections because their strategy to fight from out side was not working effectively. In democracy power lies in the Parliament and you have to be there to be heard and do something meaningful which you can not do effectively by slogan shouting from the streets or supporting “honest” candidates of other parties. Anna’s movement is fading out; masses were thinning in the rallies and “dharnas” because people can not leave their jobs and attend this sort of activities indefinitely.

Anna told Kejriwal “not to use my name, my poster and refrain from using India Against Corruption” portal. He with due respect to Annaji did that and took concrete steps to form and promote his political Aam Aadmi Party of honest representatives.  This has put him in the limelight.  Perhaps Annaji is finding side-tracked and thus this flip-flop. Anna’s “I” and “My”; and ego are creating a drift and weakening the joint efforts of Kejriwal, Ramdev and Civil Society to fight corruption for which they initially came together on one platform. It is high time for Annaji to discard his ego and support Kejriwal whole heartedly. Ramdev should join hands.