Stay apolitical

It is the first step for an agitation to be apolitical to take it to its logical end. Social activist Anna Hazare’s agitation for the appointment of Jan Lokpal to fight out corruption reached nowhere because it could not keep itself apolitical. Hazare’s agitation had drawn massive support spontaneously as long as it stayed apolitical during its short life span. Once it appeared that his agitation was taking political side and it was being supported from behind the scene by the main opposition party BJP, Anna Hazare’s support base started dwindling. Though the cause of his agitation is genuine and nobody irrespective of ideological belief and party can brush it aside, his target centred on only the ruling Congress party that smacked of some interest at play. Agitationists’ main objective should be to awaken the people and embark on mass mobilization movement for the cause which touches the inner heart chord of the people. Who can deny that there is no corruption in India and crores of rupees of black money is not stashed away in foreign banks. Yogu Guru Ramdev has also raised a genuine issue of bringing black money stashed in foreign bank. Government of India must be pressurized to act against corruption and black money. But the pressure on it can not be built by collecting massive crowd by being in the focus of electronic media for days or weeks. The govt. also can not be pressurized to act only because Opposition BJP and its ally attended his protest rally. People are sovereign in India. Power vests in them. They are the masters in democracy. So, instead of holding grand meeting in the national capital and keeping the government on alert to avert any untoward incidents, Anna Hazare, his key supporters and Baba Ramdev should go to the villages and enlighten the people how corruption and black money is deep rooted in govt. and eat into the vitality of the nation. They are so many political parties in the country. People would cast their votes for candidates of the political party whom they consider to be the honest and sensitive to their cause. Not only black money stashed away in foreign banks should be brought back into the country but also the black money kept in domestic banks and is canalized through some other ways to escape law of the land should be brought brought in public view. Ramdev Baba is not only the Yoga Guru but he has also established a business empire in the name of promoting indigenous products by a chain of outlets- Patanjali Arogya. Business is not based on the idea of public welfare but on solely profit motive. People will also not loose sight of Baba Ramdev’s business interest.