After raising high hopes, the great Indian middle class disappointed again in ensuring that the agitation of the Lokpal becomes a punctured balloon.
True, Anna Hazare and his team stands diminished. Diminished because the people, who they claimed to represent, foresook them and diminished because they did not have grace to accept that the absence of the common supporter did indicate that they had faltered somewhere. If crowds were indicator of their support than it goes that absence of crowd means absent or weak support.
Amazing is the level of glee which is seen on the face of many who had supported Anna. Amazing because while this glee was much expected from the media moguls and the chattering classes, one wonders what makes his erstwhile supporters feel happy that Anna was defeated by those who made him lead them.
Today, it is fashionable to criticize him as per one's own proclivity, but lest one forget, there was hardly any occasion, where the Mahatma himself escaped criticism, many a times from his own closest supporters. While one can fault Anna on numerous things, even on how his movement appropriated a more critical movement against Black Money, but still, his defeat is the defeat of us all, who wanted a clean Government for us and our generations to come.
What was his fault? That he wanted a simple, powerful law to nail the corrupt? Guess, reason enough for him to have been virtually killed by his followers.
