Anna's Victory: Whose defeat?

So Anna Hazare has won the battle, leaving his supporters jubilant. Quite understandable. My congratulations to team Anna and its brigade all over the country. The government is left red-faced. Each one of them, from Kapil Sibal to Pranav Mukerjee to PC to the Prime Minister, is looking like a fool of the first order. Every Tom, Dick and Harry can be seen vulgarly joking about the ministers on social networking sites. Sonia Gandhi must probably be the only person in the world happy to be recuperating from cancer at this point in time. I have, however, I few questions to ask to anyone who’d be worried about the future of this country.

1. The supporters of Anna Hazare movement seem to have been under the impression that their army was fighting against something foreign to our nation, a clandestine force from the outside that was hell-bent upon bringing nothing but disaster to the country. They seem to have forgotten that the government they were fighting against comprises of the very people they sent to the parliament as recently as 2007. So do they think they had voted for all the wrong people? If yes, who are the right people? By ridiculing their own choice, they are ridiculing themselves.
2. Anna is being touted as the second Gandhi to the nation. Hardly, I think. Consider this: The resolution was passed unanimously in both houses on Saturday evening (27 Aug). Anna Hazare, who was on water-only fast for the last 12 days, chose a time 14 hours later to break his fast! Why? All Muslims fast through the day during the month of Ramadan, starting from just before sunrise to just after the sunset. Ask any Muslim (ask me, I’m a Muslim) and he’ll tell you how difficult it is to stay hungry even for a minute after the legal fast-breaking time. It is almost impossible to do so. So why did Anna, hungry for not one, but 12 days, choose Sunday 10 am to break his fast? (Feel free to read between the lines here) Because he wanted the whole world to know that he was going to do so; he wanted all arrangements for all the fanfare to be there- the media and the paparazzi. Two children were selected to feed him juice, as, through the cameras, indeed the whole nation watch with awe and admiration. Later, he chose a five-star hospital to get admitted to and the cavalcade of vehicles that carried him from the Ramlila maidan to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon, would’ve paled the US president’s cavalcade in comparison. Why all this? Would Mahatma Gandhi have done all this?
3. And as things looked like settling down eventually, Anna, perhaps already starting to miss the media attention, publicly announced that it was not over as yet and only postponed. He announced that the next fight would be on electoral reforms, so please don’t take away those cameras as yet. His electoral reforms would include right to reject and right to recall (an elected candidate). So with a lokpal already over their heads with a naked sword, and no power worth its name, certainly no means of making money, and no surety of being in the office for five full years, I think willing candidates for the next elections would be impossible to find for the political parties! Then, perhaps, Annaji wont have any option but to be the MLA, the MP, the cabinet minister AND the prime-minister. Why be just a lokpal?  Be a Deshpal.