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Team Anna and the Parliament Of Whores
DNAIndia.com | Aditya Sinha | Sunday, September 4, 2011
What Anna Hazare, back at Ralegan Siddhi on Friday after his protest-fast for the Jan Lokpal Bill, called the UPA-2 government was not much different from what PJ O’Rourke called the prevailing American political establishment in his 1991 book Parliament Of Whores.
The book also finds resonance two decades later in our country, where a group of citizens express similar disdain for government, to the extent of abusing it. This is one reason why Team Anna and its supporters are more like the Tea Party than the Arab Spring, despite the latter’s momentous spread through several countries in 2011. Team Anna, unlike the Arab Spring, is not revolutionary. It does not seek overthrow of government, much less overthrow of the system of government; rather, it seeks an additional check-and-balance in our Constitution.
Team Anna has recently been asked to support causes of the marginalized in India: Anna has been invited to Manipur to demonstrate solidarity with Iron Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for years (she is force-fed and weighs only 37 kg) for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a far more life-or-death matter than corruption for Indians living in her state.
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