Second War for Independence of the Country is on -Long Live Anna Hazare

Mr Anna Hazare has started his fast at Jantar Mantar in view of the failure of the government to satisfactorily resolve the issue of pending enactment of Lok Pal Bill.The government is standing on ego by refusing to agree to include eminent persons from civil society in the committee, comprising of GOM, which is discussing the draft at present.The government is saying that it has to go by its rules of business which do not provide for such broad based committees  and that such a move is unprecedented.The government is conveniently forgetting that it as well as its predecessor governments have made a complete mockery of the system by having failed to get the lok pal bill through in the parliament despite the fact that more than 42 years have elapsed since its first introduction in 1968. This establishes beyond any iota of doubt that the political elite of this country are not interested to create a machinery which will have powers to hook them for their wrong doings in an effective and time bound manner.That there has been a criminal and sinister consensus in this regard is evident from the fact that no political party in opposition ever stalled the functioning of Lok Sabha  in a bid to force the government of the day to be serious on this issue of corruption by steering the bill on Lok Pal. Evidently, the political establishment is the prime beneficiary of this criminal and colossal delay in bringing a proper anti corruption legislation. In view of this background, the government can not the present agitation as premature or having been instigated by vested interests. The fact of the matter is that the vested interests within and outside the government are not letting the honest PM take a rational stand on this issue to clinch it and thus letting the Gandhian  leader use his energies for social and economic uplift of the poor..

This agitation reminds me of the situation building up in June,1975, when Jai Parkash Narayan  was preaching total revolution and had given a call for civil disobedience. The popular mood is as angry as it was in those days as the people of the country  see in Anna Hazare an emancipator who will rid them from being subjected to double taxation in their own country where 'corruption cess' is at much higher rates than the normal visible taxation.

The movement needs a wide support and we as citizens should contribute by becoming its part in an effective way by organizing similar fasts in all state capitals..The demon of corruption has to be caught from its horns and decimated for ever.