Digvijay Divides Team Anna

When Arvind Kejriwal was in Hissar campaigning against the Congress asking the voters not to vote for Congress and Prashant Bhushan was making statements supporting plebiscite in J&K Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's saw an opportunity. In Hissar, It was a double jeopardy situation. Not only was team Anna inflicting severe damage to Congress image for opposing the Lokpal bill but their campaign against Congress was unwillingly supporting the BJP candidate. However, that leftist idiot Prashant Bhushan gave him the perfect weapon in the hands of Digvijay Singh to cause a rift in Team Anna. Not the one to take this assault on Congress lying down, Digvijay Singh did the following to split the Team Anna.

a) He was openly opining in the media that Anna Hazare is being misled by Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal. This caused Anna to backtrack because he did not want to politicize his anti corruption campaign.

b) He wrote open letters to Anna Hazare to that effect lodging his protest and brought it to the public through releasing it to the media.

c) He then came with the open allegation in the media that RSS is supporting Anna's movement and he has proof of that.

d) He released the letters to the media that were written by RSS chiefs to Anna supporting his movement and proved his criticism while the team Anna continued to vigorously oppose it. Singh is aware of the revulsion that the leftists in team Anna have for all things RSS and BJP. Myopic team Anna instead of accepting the all encompassing support for this movement (i.e. the anti corruption movement belongs to all Indians, liberal and conservative alike) went on the defensive. They ended up repudiating the RSS support. This of course upset a significant population who thinks that just because RSS says the sky is blue does not change the color of the sky. Corruption hurts Indians from all walks of life and everyone has equal right to criticize it even joining hands with their ideological enemies against it. Team Anna failed to recognize it thereby playing into the hands of the wily Congressman.

If that were not enough, Bhushan gave him more fodder to divide the Team Anna. However a few noteworthy things indicate a more sinister plot. No sooner did the attack on Bhushan take place than Digvijay Singh had letters from written by the attackers to members of the BJP. He also was in possession of proof of the membership of the attackers in the BJP youth wing. How did Digvijay get his paws on these incriminating documents. Did Digvijay know about the attack? I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theory nut but is it possible that he arranged this attack? After all, the BJP / RSS combine is facing major elections in the next two years. By attacking leftists like Bhushan, they stand to lose the most. On the other hand, in spirit of “Cui Bono?” i.e. “Who Benefits?” it is Congress which benefits the most from this attack.

Now it may be a bloody coincidence that Singh got those documents so quickly. A BJP insider may have helped him for money. However, know Digvijay Singh, I would not put anything past him.
Nevertheless, selfish leftist agenda and loss of focus of Team Anna is threatening to undo Anna Hazare’s sacrifice. If Kejriwal thinks that he can deal with snakes in politics they he is a fool who is bringing a knife to a gunfight. The way to deal with the UPA is what Anna did – Satyagrah and public opinion. Instead his team after winning the first battle, decided to unleash their own selfish agenda. Now they are going to lose the war. For this I congratulate Digvijay Singh. He truly is the master of filthy politics.

Team Anna could have avoided all this only if they had stayed focused on the anti-corruption movement and boldly/openly agreed to RSS/BJP support. Anna should have then challenged all those groups/parties/organizations religious or not, to support his movement as corruption transcends color, creed, caste, religion, faith etc, etc.....