From: HARAN BR
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1722
Anna Hazare's Campaign: truly Gandhian, truly evil – I
Radha Rajan
11 Apr 2011
The End Result
The truth is simple and direct. Anna Hazare has replaced Baba Ramdev as the central figure in the nation's war against corruption in exactly the same way that Gandhi replaced Tilak and Aurobindo within the Indian National Congress; and for the exact same reasons: no people's movement in Hindu bhumi will be allowed to be led by a conscious Hindu, no campaign in this country will be allowed to wear a Hindu face; the critical difference being, as events proved, Ramdev is no Aurobindo.
Aurobindo, having studied and judged Gandhi for what he was, was not impressed by Gandhi's premature, motivated and imposed mahatma-hood, was not intimidated by his undeserved stature and refused to meet Gandhi anytime in both their lifetimes. Not so Baba Ramdev, and as we read from newspaper reports, not the RSS either. Living up to the writer's firm and disheartening belief that Hindu organizations and Hindu religious and political leaders doing politics, armed with nothing more than their colossal egos,
- have no political sense
- can be intimidated into compliance
- can be coerced into proving their imposed inclusive credentials by being seen in the company of non-Hindus and anti-Hindus in their work
- can be pressured into sailing with the wind even if the wind is leading them astray
Baba Ramdev belittled his saffron robes and the RSS demonstrated appalling poor judgment by visiting the hero of the Cheltenham tragedy at Jantar Mantar to extend their support – support which he did not need, did not acknowledge, did not respect.
Baba Ramdev and the RSS, who stood in Hazare's shadow and sang the chorus to his NGO-authored song, urgently need lessons in political history – the Hindu view of the freedom struggle and its end result to be exact.
Sonia Gandhi and her minions in English television news channels were taken aback when Baba Ramdev galvanized the nation against endemic corruption afflicting every arm of the state and every aspect of public life. Reeling under the still unfolding saga of meta-corruption, the Congress party denounced Baba Ramdev's foray into politics and advised him to confine himself to giving tummy-tucking lessons in Yoga.
Baba Ramdev's campaign against corruption, which was seen as attacking the Congress and its imported President, had an explosive beginning on February 27 at Ramlila grounds in Delhi with a blood-curdling mammoth gathering of around two lakh people; but all major English newspapers and English TV news channels, in stark contrast to their contrived hysteria over Anna Hazare's campaign, either blacked out entirely or made only passing reference to the start of what would soon become Baba Ramdev's cataclysmic campaign against corruption in public life.
Baba Ramdev followed Delhi with Goa, Chennai, and Bangalore, and at every stop the movement against corruption gathered unstoppable momentum. Sonia Gandhi and her handlers in the Generic Church had to move fast to stop the Ramdev juggernaut and contain the damage.
The writer had observed on an earlier occasion that the Church has the unmatched capacity to turn all events, including adversities, adroitly in its favour. In less than two months the Church changed the face of the people's movement against corruption. The saffron-clad Hindu religious face of the movement was replaced by the Gandhi cap; and Baba Ramdev's movement, which was aimed directly at Sonia Gandhi, was now turned into a movement directed by Sonia's minions in the NGO industry!
The Church and the world feel safe again as idiot Hindus – film stars, students, upwardly mobile professionals, lawyers, judges and politicians – indulged their craving for catharsis to cleanse their corrupt, guilt-ridden souls and gathered penitently around Anna Hazare's toothless belligerence under the Gandhi cap.
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1 comment:
Brilliant & incisive analysis. This was my gut instinct about Hazare's tamasha.
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