Is It Not Anna Effect ?

Sometimes I wonder do we really live in a welfare democratic State. Ask a victim of Gujarat communal riot , ask farmers families whose head committed suicide because of debts, ask the dalit family of Bihar whose family members committed suicide yesterday and ask  all the poor and exploited section of this country, do you believe in parliament and the elected representatives of India ; answer of this question will not surprise you. These people believe and respect their immediate exploiter more than the parliament and elected represented of our country. Appears bizarre but this is the reality of rural India.

This is not the question whether Anna will change everything in a jiffy or not. Solace is that, at least one person is among us who is registering a protest in his own way which is in sync of constitution. His fight for corruption is good for one and all.  He is opening up a way for common man to assert their right and put pressure on elected representative, is it not good?  With various demand people are looking forward to writing for their rights to their elected representatives, is it not Anna effect?

Government always works to keep power intact. Power is the sole motive of the government. Power has very big nexus with corruption so expecting that powerful people will enact a law against themselves is like living in a fool’s paradise. We will have to assert our right and put pressure on our elected representative with constitutional method to make them accountable to the poor. And Anna is doing exactly the same thing. 

Ramanuj Dubey