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Fast to death by Anna should have been the last resort as a psychological-tactical war
Anna is a very impatient and petulant person. He earned for himself public glory and support from all sides when he had successfully embarked on the first fast to death for the Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi. The UPA government had got panicky and knelt down. The team Anna must have capitalized on UPA-predicament with a sound strategy and sagacious future planning but instead; he rushed rash to another fast in Mumbai which turned out to be a fiasco. He did not learn from his embarrassing mistake and proceeded again to launch yet another fast without intense popular support. The weapon of fast unto death should have been utilized as the last resort as a psychological-tactical warfare. This time the media was also blackmailed, coerced and won over by the government. Thus shorn of media and public support the good intentioned movement petered out miserably.
Now another blunder of Anna is his decision to enter into electoral politics through forming his own outfit. This mission of his is bound to come a cropper. We have example of U.P where the S.P. came into power on tactical voting by minorities on totally communal basis. Otherwise a party known for corruption, bad governance and rowdism in the past could not have come to power again. Castism and communal vote-politics is a hard reality which Anna and his team cannot surmount. Had they been a bit wiser they would have supported a political party that is less corruptible, less immoral and less debased.
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