Not just off-season masala

Immediately after cricket frenzy, social activist Anna Hazare has helped in cementing the bonds between the people in a lean season.
Anna by going on a fast unto death has given a little to everybody, from 'somebodys’ to nobodys’.
He has given TV channels and media enough corruption masala to keep the TRPs high and viewers glued to a cause which is the topic of platitudes after two large Patialas.
Social activists, civil right citizens and nukkad and small time organizations have got a platform to express their presence. Have you heard of a group Unemployed Computer Teachers Association with a membership of 3,000? This group exists and was present in full strength of motley two dozen shouting slogans in front of rolling TV cameras.
And this has happened across the country – from Pune to Patna from Lucknow to Ladoo Sarai.
Then Anna got support from actors, doctors, engineers, scientists, students, teachers, employed or otherwise, political and non-political, non-criminals… to even criminals. Pappu Yadav, in Patna’s Beur jail facing a life term in CPI-M MLA Ajit Sarkar murder case, is also on a fast unto death against corruption.

Netizens and mobilites have been flooded with SMS and e-mails seeking support for the cause of the Pune crusader. An example – Candle march by Trans-Hindon Residents Welfare Association in Vaishali and Indrapuram in Ghaziabad, UP or Life Care Foundation, Varanasi, is taking out a candle march for a corrupt-free Bharat in support of Anna Hazare. Wont you like to join in and become a concerned citizen?
Anna is demanding a 50:50 representation for civil society activists and government
representatives on a joint committee for drafting an anti-graft bill. The government is more than ready to accept the demands, but only at an informal level.
In an election season - Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, Kerala and even Assam - where the Congress party is eying to win at least 4 out 5 elections, Sonia Gandhi and her managers would be highly disturbed with the developments kicking off from Jantar Mantar. No wonder she said she was disturbed and backed up cause of the aam admi.

One wonders why that the activists Agnivesh and Arvind Kajriwal are in talks with minister Kapil Sibal, who has on record publicly defended his predecessor, A Raja, who is now in jail for the 2G scam that is anything between Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 1.76 lakh crore. They are in talks with the wrong minister for a right demand, which the government was ready to accept. The minister said the present committee would be an informal one to which the activists were not sure how to react.

Bring a law or setting up a Lokpal immediately is not feasible, even if the Prime Minister or President of India personally promise to do so today. Laws are made and for that the Parliament has be in session.
There are hundreds of dharnas that take place at Jantar Mantar, but no group gets so much hype. We need to think positive ways of encashing this before it becomes too late or it goes into the wrong hands. But the big question is – will corruption ever stop.
One thing is important, we are united against corruption. Let us be frank… Anna Hazare will stop someday but corruption will go on and on. But the fight must go on.