As Anna goes lock, stock, and barrel by initiating a no-voting campaign against Congress party for Hisar by-election, the inherent intentions of Team Anna become conspicuous to public. In that it unfolds their hidden political agenda, irrespective of how loudly they deny the political aspirations in the near future. Maybe, Team Anna is testing its popularity and impact at ground zero, which would certainly prop up their confidence before launching a full-steam assault against Congress in the UP state elections.
What's more interesting here that just six months before when Team Anna launched their campaign against corruption and pressurized UPA-2 to bend to their demands and participate in the drafting committee of Lokpal, very few had any idea that an apolitical hunger strike at Jantar Mantar for bringing a frivolous Jan Lokpal draft on to the table of Parliament would snowball into a political star war.
The political angle of the strike was even more imaginable during the second phase at the Ramlila ground when various political leaders from non-Congress brigade supported Anna's campaign against corruption. The high drama ended, rather stage managed, through a purely political solution, which abruptly threw impression that a projectile pushed to a course correction at the midway of trajectory. And now that the bill is at the mercy of Standing Committee which would certainly apply its collective mind to whether the pointers raised by Team Anna appeal to the representatives.
Well before the Standing Committee take any decision on the bill in the winter session of Parliament, Team Anna in advance has started deploying pressure tactics at Hisar to vote out Congress. Now the point of confrontation here is that Anna is not apolitical, rather he has proved more ways than one that he has strong political backing to launch such campaign against Congress. This partisan attitude of Team Anna could be disastrous for their long term agenda, be it political or social.
What Team Anna could have done rather approach the public at Hisar to vote out the corrupt candidate, not the Congress candidate. As a crusader of corruption, Anna has missed the fundamentals of Gandhian values at least in the event of Hisar by-elections. Whatever be the outcome of this campaign, Anna has certainly diluted his image.
