Anna Movement - Marching Ahead

Most of the people would be curious to know about the next move of civil society. Some of you might be aware of all the happenings. Few might raise question that civil society members have left the issue of Jan-lokpal and have entered the battle of elections? The issue of janlokpal is neither left behind nor the movement of corruption-less society stopped, rather it is gaining momentum daily. What we have learnt is large number of lessons from the government, the way govt. showcased its fortitude against the passage of effective lokpal bill. What we’ve seen in U.P. and other election-states is awareness campaigns. Team Anna has decided to bring the ideological change in the common people, because we have showed lots of strength on road. Now the main focus is to create and build think tanks across the country. IAC has started forming Charcha-Samuha (discussion groups) at every corner of the country be it village or city. These, so called Charcha-Samuha will discuss issues ranging from janlokpal, election reforms and parochial too. When these discussion groups grew in numbers and reach to lakhs, then the change will definitely strike. Team Anna has envisaged transfer of power from politicians and bureaucrats to the common people by raising issues like Right to reject, Right to recall, etc. The plan is make citizens more powerful than bureaucrats and elected representatives. The plan is to eliminate Red-light (lal batti) system and taking away the bungalows of the politicians and bureaucrats and shifting them to flats, where common people live. The rationale behind this is that when these people start living in such state of affairs, then they will realize the troubles of ordinary citizens. What we saw in August last year, was the acrimony of citizens against govt. policies and failure to tackle corruption. When the general election takes place in 2014, it become election of ideologies, policies, etc not mere based on religion or caste. Hope common people awakens as soon as possible for a revolution is yet to arrive.