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Anna Hazare  lauds Modi

Anna, the Voice of the Upwardly Mobile:

A voice has been raised in India against the  venal misdeeds of politicians and, mutedly, of bureaucrats  (no mention of the corporates here).

Groups of  protestors led by a most unlikely mix of civil society leaderships, ranging from  those with staunch secular credentials and proven personal integrity (Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejrival, Kiran Bedi, Swami Agnivesh, Mallika Sarabai)  to those others  with known affiliation to right-wing Hindu organizations and dubious claims to probity (Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar), racuously foregrounded by corporate electronic channels with barely concealed antipathy to any  mass assertion from the Left, have been holding fort.

True to pattern and apprehension, the politics of a section of the protestors could not after all hold back mentioning chief ministers of two BJP- ruled and BJP-in-coalition- ruled states as exemplars of the India of their dreams.  Most significantly, that mention this time came from no less than Anna Hazare himself.

As per Anna speak,  Nitish  Kumar and  Narendra Modi  belong to a common category—chief ministers who  do good development work without being corrupt.  More of the corruption part hereunder. But,

what of Modi’s  fingers dipped  in  blood?  Response:  communalism is bad, but  “I  was speaking only of his development work.”

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