December 18, 2020
One of the more ironical images during last week’s Bharat Bandh called by farmers groups was that of social activist Anna Hazare on a day long hunger fast in support of the farmers demands. Accompanied by just a handful of supporters, a recorded message of Anna from his village of Ralegan Siddhi was sent out to tv channels. Most channels ignored it, a far cry from the time when multi-cam teams were chasing the then septuagenarian Gandhi topi leader with breathless excitement, with newspaper columns even comparing him to a modern day Mahatma. The ‘Anna moment’ in Indian politics has long come and gone. The question is, can it be replicated by a new band of protestors waving the flag of anti-establishment politics? To put it more plainly, will the 2020 farm protests do to the Modi 2.0 government what the 2011 Anna anti-corruption movement did to Dr Manmohan Singh regime?
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The Anna and kisan movements, writes Rajdeep Sardesai
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