Lessons I Learnt From Anna Hazare’s Campaign
I may not be competent enough comment on the merits of any national level campaign but everything happens of that or even lesser magnitude does leave a string of lessons for me to learn. It has been around two year now, when Anna Hazare and his team started a civil movement under the banner of ‘India Against Corruption’ to end corruption in the country with the support of common people’s movement. This campaign was launched with the objective, or at least we were made to believe, to bring in ‘Jan Lokpal’, who will have investigation as well as prosecution power to try and punish the corrupt. ‘Jan Lokpal’ is nowhere in the picture but this entire civil movement has now become political with Arvind Kejriwal and few others has started their political journey with naming and shaming the big and mighty in political power circle leaving Anna Hazare sulking in his village Ralegaon Siddhi. Despite knowing the fact that this ‘Jan Lokpal’ can’t solve the problem of corruption in the countr...