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For many non-Congress politicians, the Emergency has become the default expression of outrage. Throughout last Sunday, as the country digested the drama surrounding Baba Ramdev's protest in Delhi's Ramlila Ground, the allusions to the 21-month Emergency competed with references to the massacre in Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh. In this battle over history, Indira Gandhi's coup clearly prevailed over Lt-General Reginald Dyer's trigger-happiness.
India's political class is naturally prone to hyperbole. If BJP's L K Advani detected "naked fascism" in the police action against Baba Ramdev and prophesied that June would be the UPA government's cruellest month, Congress's Digvijay Singh dubbed the flamboyant yoga guru a "maha thug" that Delhi was well rid of. Predictably, throughout the crisis, neither the prime minister nor the Congress president were seen or heard.
The live weekend drama did resemble a B-grade Bollywood thriller - a helpful BJP even provided the dance numbers during its Rajghat fast. Yet, underneath the apparent farce, there is a grim story that is beginning to unfold, and whose impact may yet be far-reaching.
I agree that both Anna's and Ramdev's Fast-onto-death rattled like hell, the political authority.
And, I would add that what Anna's ilk have taken their life-times to build 'The Anti-Corruption Movement" through extensive awareness creation on the al-round corruption and an urgent need to root-it-out, our Flip-Flop Ramdev has taken just a few days to sabotage it.
Now, his own skeleton are rolling out, he better keep quite and allow the true champions of -corruption-free-society to handle this noble cause.
India's political class is naturally prone to hyperbole. If BJP's L K Advani detected "naked fascism" in the police action against Baba Ramdev and prophesied that June would be the UPA government's cruellest month, Congress's Digvijay Singh dubbed the flamboyant yoga guru a "maha thug" that Delhi was well rid of. Predictably, throughout the crisis, neither the prime minister nor the Congress president were seen or heard.
The live weekend drama did resemble a B-grade Bollywood thriller - a helpful BJP even provided the dance numbers during its Rajghat fast. Yet, underneath the apparent farce, there is a grim story that is beginning to unfold, and whose impact may yet be far-reaching.
I agree that both Anna's and Ramdev's Fast-onto-death rattled like hell, the political authority.
And, I would add that what Anna's ilk have taken their life-times to build 'The Anti-Corruption Movement" through extensive awareness creation on the al-round corruption and an urgent need to root-it-out, our Flip-Flop Ramdev has taken just a few days to sabotage it.
Now, his own skeleton are rolling out, he better keep quite and allow the true champions of -corruption-free-society to handle this noble cause.
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