The only party that supported Anna Hazare was BJP in parliament. Arun Jaitley & Sushma Swaraj spoke in parliament when the whole world was watching and had high respect for Anna. They proved they would support right thinking people. Arun Jaitley has always shown he's trustworthy & true statesmen by going ahead with getting Anna into parliament via backdoor. Yes, BJP used Anna for their ulterior motives and knew they were not able to give Anna what he purely intended: the Jan Lokpal Bill.
SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) is a key weapon politicians use while targeting their opponents and quality of their oratory skills decides what is right for them.
Anna knew the BJP can & will change stance. Anna needs BJP to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed which is why Anna supports BJP but does not acknowledge. Anna realizes that BJP is a lesser evil than Congress which has evolved corruption for the last 64 years. Anna wants that Congress is out-voted because Congress cheated him repeatedly. His fast extended to 14 days as Congress did not budge a moment till BJP cornered Congress in parliament. Congress also attacked TEAM ANNA repeatedly. Congress is rudderless. Congress cheated them in joint parliamentary meetings of Lokpal bill. Congress, especially "tainted" home minister P Chidambaram, sent 5000 policemen to Ramlila to stop Ramdev from holding meetings against corruption in public and getting back black money.
They accused Anna of RSS links. They accused Arvind Kejriwal of mis-conduct, falsely accusing him of not completing his term. They took Kiran Bedi for a ride for being Robinhood (using privileges for public benefit and not going business class). They accused Manish Sisodia & Arvind Kejriwal of taking money from Ford Foundation which is a dubious charge. Congress has repeatedly attacked TEAM ANNA. Prashant Bhushan was brutally attacked physically for a non-issue of referendum in Kashmir as small as saying what he feels. Later Tajinder Bagga was caught on video by Rajat Sharma's Hindi news channel and found to be instigated by politicians in congress who wanted to defame TEAM ANNA. India is a free country where you can say what you feel irrespective of whether it is right or not on issues concerning public interest. Digvijay has repeatedly attacked TEAM ANNA & Anna of supporting RSS ideology which is a joke. Considering Anna & his TEAM, definitely the government is at the backfoot.
Anna is of the view that corruption stops India from progressing and Congress has encouraged corruption in police, government services & in ministries. Anna says Congress has done nothing in last 64 years to stop corruption. They got a Lokpal bill that encourages corruption, not deters people from doing corruption. Sonia Gandhi is selfish. She is not Indian and does not represent India and its voice/culture. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is impotent Prime Minister. Sonia Gandhi is de-facto prime minister. The critics of Anna Hazare should know that Anna Hazare is fighting for people's rights of legislation against corrupt MP's. Congress is for the high-command, by the high-command, from the high-command.
Politicians are like pawns of Sonia Gandhi & Advani on a Chess Board. Anna knows that. His team doesn't. His team is very pre-mature and follows what Anna says and does. They are getting carried away in this megalomaniac world of media savvy people who want soundbytes and Annabytes. TEAM ANNA are desperate and adamant to get rid of corruption and getting trapped in media web. TEAM ANNA does not have a mind of it's own. Clearly Prashant Bhushan is known to be rigid. However, his contribution is remarkable.
BJP is no less, ex-Karnataka CM Yeddurappa has been jailed. NaMo (Narendra Modi) has been accused of caste based riots in Gujurat in 2002. Even if NaMo was right in his way of dealing with Muslims, he needed a hindsight view of what he was doing and did not realize that his act will raise doubts and questions. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. It's true that Muslims did the worst possible thing in Godhra burning people live with petrol and igniting them. NaMo is accused of fighting to avoid getting a Lokayukta.
BJP has other issues. BJP's black money yatra did not have any support as much as Anna had in Ramlila and even near to MMRDA for that instance. LK Advani is old now. NaMo is tainted.
Anna team is adamant and rigid with their views. Their conviction is they will win the game is a little over-board. Congress are dirty politicians. Congress will play dirty games. In this time, they are not analyzing every move of Congress and their allies. TEAM ANNA does not seem to be saying the right words even though their spirit is sky-shattering. IAC is doing a good job at encouraging the movement. The need of the hour for Team Anna is to look back objectively and find out the list of mistakes they've made and not repeat them. Arvind Kejriwal has gone a little overboard with interviews and less ground work. My advice to team Anna is stay away from media as much as possible and get your team a cohesive camaraderie. Blogging can be a powerful weapon they can use to DIRECTLY connect with people and at times connect with people through TV Channels. A pen is mightier than a sword. Media has brought them fame and defamed some of their strategic moves. It's time they stay away from TRP's and focus on promoting Jan Lokpal Bill.
The mistake TEAM ANNA did was stop the Facebook and Twitter campaigns in August as they did not plan properly and took rest from the fatigue. There has to be a step by step SWOT approach by keeping a team of political analysts who would make notes of every move by their opponents and creates FAQ's for them to answer the media. Politically calculated moves can help them square-off the attacks of congress & its UPA allies and thus, enable TEAM ANNA to stay alive. Congress has hurt-ed TEAM ANNA and the country at large. The rising prices have created insignificant vacuum for common man and people are not able to afford the cost of living. Team Anna also commented on off-topic questions thinking now they've credibility over anything and everything. I tried going to IAC Mumbai & help them with ideas in the first meeting but found Praful Vora to have his "possessive" views which lead to me not going forward again for the next meeting. Mayank Gandhi seems to be possessed with his own ideas but still seems to be open to ideas.
The best way to defend your self is to attack your opponent and Anna knows this which is why Anna is going to 5 poll-bound states to campaign against Congress. However, it will dis-integrate the movement as it will enable other corrupt individuals to get elected which may not be in the best interest of Anna's apolitical campaign against corruption, not Congress. Hope Anna keeps in mind that he does not slip the momentum by ignoring the content of the WEAK Lokpal Bill which the Congress has created. the focus has to be corruption, not congress but poor Anna has no choice. CBI is momentum for TEAM ANNA as it's a key issue. Everyone knows CBI is mis-used. Congress has mis-used momentum in the last 64 years and brought various laws protecting corrupt. Hoping the trial against PC, home minister, by Subramaniam Swamy brings laurels to India and gets him to Tihar. This is the pressing issue at the center of 176,000 crore 2g scam. People of India need to collaborate at this moment and delve in absolute altruism for the betterment of our nation while not leaving the country in the hands of 544 buffoonish MP's who're power greedy and wealth maniacs whereas the poor are suffering with getting even a 1 time meal. Until and unless Team Anna learns to correctly "respond" and Anna learns to answer the correct answers which they are true, they won't be a cohesive team and capture the imagination again. Till them they will keep answering incomplete questions to the media which the media will hound repeatedly till they're validated to their best of intentions. After all, media is the fourth pillar and also citizens of India. Till then, Team Anna will be jailed - in media questioning their cohesive camaraderie, rigidity and integrity; and will give Congress the space to resolve the crisis and turn back the momentum of public opinion in it's favor.
The only way for Team Anna to win back the out-voted public opinion is to create awareness campaigns for Jan Lokpal Bill explaining the law and people's constitutional rights bit-by-bit in layman's language while attacking integrity of congress point by point and showing the mask of Congress which is multi-sided and farcical. Anna needs to be in sync with the mandate of media irrespective of yellow journalism and rise above media while answering tough questions. The campaign was political, is political and will remain political. Anna is neutral and loves India. That is enough for people of India right now. The fact that politicians have a reputation of being rudderless is enough for TEAM ANNA to ride a wave and encourage people to gherao MP's and do a Jail Bharo. Raising questions on the movement being political, politicians taking gullible people for a ride making false promises needs leadership. Since there is a leadership crisis, we need Anna Hazare who's willing to challenge a rudderless government. Sonia Gandhi will definitely want to be at the front foot and will introduce the food security bill to appease the poor and go for a turnaround of the public image of the Congress party. After all, Congress wants votes. There is where we the people play a role and must encourage people to vote more often and in encouragement of progressive policies of candidates for a great track record.
SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) is a key weapon politicians use while targeting their opponents and quality of their oratory skills decides what is right for them.
The good news right now is that TEAM ANNA has learned it's lesson that people understand politics and people have turned sharper. That people understand the politics of politics is a sign that will embellish Anna with goodwill in future. Anna Hazare needs to refrain from answring people's questions. Hopefully, India will vote for progress, not 'con'-gress (CONGRESS). Anna is sharp politically so he will win in the long run in the big fight. Anna is a heartthrob. INDIA!
- Ronak Shah, political analyst and internet marketing wizard.
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