Fight against corruption doesn’t END here

They (Politicians) set a Trap and Team ANNA walked right into it. Or should I say this was the only motive of Team Anna also?

Some of you must say I am biased like Indian media, but believe me nobody has paid me for writing this and nobody has pointed a gun on my head. I am not a pessimist also, I was even a part of many of the Anna’s rallies against corruption, and I am sure one day if not this then some other revolution will definitely change the course of our nation, nothing lasts for eternity not even the bad times, you know. 

But as of now Team Anna’s struggle ends here, and it is going to become a part of the problem itself. As I denote, ‘it’s a middle class thinking that problem can only be solved by diving direct into it’, but that’s not the case. If Team Anna has wanted to recover ground they must have supported the clean candidates from outside, rather than entering the political fray itself. It’s not like that only Team Anna is clean and every other politician is corrupt, only he is a true patriot and no one else.

A political party is much more than an NGO or a movement focused on just one issue. It’s not that all other needs of people have been taken care off and the only last wish they have left is to remove corruption. This single ideology of corruption is not even a sure starter for a political party in a country like India, where sixty percent of the public is below poverty line and where whole life span of a man goes in arranging a shelter and daily bread for his family. There are so many other major issues also Population, Poverty, Education, Caste, Religion, Development, I speculate if any of the Team Anna member has a first hand experience of these issues or even thought of that. For a moment if we assume that Anna does manage to get few MPs elected to Parliament (Which seems very difficult, that I have experienced in recent Punjab elections; Manpreet Singh’s People’s party of Punjab did not get a single seat with all the honest leaders and same ideologies as of Team Anna in it). Then also other parties MPs vastly larger numbers, who'll oppose Anna's demands, and thus defeat him easily.

And it’s not only in politics but, corruption in India is systemic, not incidental. Corruption is what funds Indian democracy; whether we like it or not, it’s our lifestyle now. And it will take years and lot many efforts to remove it from our genes. I wonder why Team Anna lost its fire just in a year. Team Anna's decision to enter politics is a sad let-down, it reveals that there is lack of ideas at the core of the team. In my view they would have agreed with the Lokpal Bill as passed in the Lok Sabha. It would have been a good start and few years later, a smart Anna would have rallied again and brought about new changes. That’s how laws get made; you can’t hit the bull’s eye on the first attempt.

The politicians will be very happy now they set a trap, and Team Anna walked right into it. They have Anna exactly where they wanted him. Now he will learn how complicated politics is, how easy it looks from the outside and how difficult it is from the inside. As of now I give credit to Anna for just one thing, he made the general public aware of their power and gathered them under one umbrella, other then this Anna failed in every respect.

Just hoping, that this step of Team Anna will not help Congress in 2014 elections as it happened for Akali Dal in last year’s Punjab Elections.

P.S. The WAR is still ON