The very youths that provided the bulwark of Anna's movement have started hitting out against his team. There have been two incidents in the recent times where Anna's team members have been attacked. What is the catalyst which has suddenly made the youths who recently carried Team Anna on their shoulders to throw slippers on them.
The attacks on Prashant Bhushan & Arvind Kejrival are reprehensible but I think they are an indications towards a larger malaise. I think this is the time when team Anna needs to self introspect. They need to find an answer to the fact that the youths who defied everyone to support their movement have now taken cudgels against them. Not just the youths but also people who openly supported them have now started criticizing them. People like Justice Santosh Hegde have openly criticized team Anna for their stand against Congress in Hissar.There are reports of financial irregularities against Team Anna & in fact some youths are sitting on Dharna at Jantar Mantar protesting against this. Team Anna is now standing at the crossroads. It can either ignore these sporadic incidents or can question itself & ask why they have started losing support.
When Anna started his movement, people joined him spontaneously as everyone was fed up with the wide scale corruption prevailing in the country. The 74 year old became a cult hero with the youths. But somewhere, team Anna lost its focus & instead of fighting corruption started behaving like politicians. Hissar is a perfect case study to know what went wrong. Arvind Kejriwal opposed Congress in the by-elections. If team Anna purportedly believes that it is fighting corruption then why did it oppose the only candidate which had no criminal cases against himself. The way Kejriwal behaved all this while smacked of his political aspirations in his birthplace. Team Anna has started behaving as an extra constitutional authority & in fact have started considering themselves superior to the people, the masses.
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