Anna Hazare is on a pan-India whirlwind tour. But his motives are clouded. In his last uprising he had targeted Delhi. He lay siege of the Capital. Believing, maybe rightly that Delhi is India. His message got telegraphed via a symapthetic media. But the government of the day failed him. The power elite stymied his ideological coup.
This time around he chose to touch the lives of people directly. This time around he is a new Anna. All brimstone and fire spewing Moral Man who is baring his wounds and voicing his hurts as never before.
He has branded his erstwhile comrades Kejriwal and Baba Ramdev as traitors to his cause. Those are strong words. This signals the birth of a new Anna. This one is not innocence personified. This Anna Avtaar is a man of ego. Packaged within the layers of his ideological concerns and social comments, are his diatribe against a tribe gone awary. His own people who stabbed him.
In this sense this is mission personal and much mission impersonal.
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