TO ALL CONCERNED,
The poor response to Anna in the city and his clarion call for a total "societal and systemic transformation" should certainly make us all hang our heads in shame and force our hands into examining our motives, intentions and taking a good long and hard look at ourselves in the mirror.........
Less than five hundred people turned up to listen to Anna and General (retired) V.K. Singh and more than 75% of this paltry number was comprised by erstwhile or serving India Against Corruption volunteers, senior citizens or those notables who have since switched their allegiance to the Aam Aadmi party........
Shame Hyderabad and India Against Corruption shame; more than 1.5 lakh Patnaites line up the streets and turn up to hear Anna when he addresses a public rally in the city and what sort of response do we give him??????
The bitter infighting and clamour for self glorification and gratification is out in the open for all to see, strategic alliances were bartered and made behind the scenes to ensure that the people who made the same remained in the spotlight and garnered their fifteen seconds of ill gotten fame.........
Two senior and long standing IAC volunteers or members who almost came to blows during the ill fated press conference were seen sharing the stage in an atmosphere of congeniality and bonhomie, in fact, one person who had even gone to the extent of calling Sufi maulvi Jilani a "Pakistani" was seen sharing the very same stage as him in a complete volte face........
Strange indeed are the ways and deeds of people who are hell bent upon garnering the limelight and media attention at all costs, the organisation that made them what they are and prodded them up could take a walk as long as they enjoyed their moment in the spotlight........
One such notable who has since switched his loyalties to the Aam Aadmi party and whose name finds a mention on the list of Aam Aadmi party members was very much present on the stage and even read out the very same poem that he had read out when Ms. Kiran Bedia and Gopal Rai were here in June 2012.......
And all this despite ten mails or more being bandied about to the effect that Anna had expressly forbidden all those elements who had shifted allegiance to the Aam Aadmi party to stay away from his newly launched public initiative, O glory and fifteen seconds of name, what untold crimes and follies are committed in your name.......
The writing on the wall is up there for all and sundry to see, saner, dedicated and committed elements of the now almost defunct IAC movement need to come together, chart out a new course and provide this rapidly sinking movement with a new found sense of purpose and direction.........
This impression going around about IAC Hyderabad being nothing more than a group of self seekers who are only interested in organising events once a year or so and happily resting on their laurels(?) in between needs to be dispelled beyond all reasonable doubt...........
The older generation has certainly enjoyed it's innings and more than it's fifteen seconds of fame under the spotlight and it's time to hand over the reins to the younger generation forthwith; do stick around as advisers and well wishers but do not make an attempt to abrogate the movement in your name.....
Your misdeeds and ruinous clamour for name, fame and the media glare have reduced the IAC movement to nothing more than a laughing stock, so do make way voluntarily for a newer and more committed lot hell bent upon making a difference on the ground, media glare or no media glare, your self interest and self serving motives have almost sounded the death knell of this peoples' movement, so do make way before the very same is dead and buried..........
The poor response to Anna in the city and his clarion call for a total "societal and systemic transformation" should certainly make us all hang our heads in shame and force our hands into examining our motives, intentions and taking a good long and hard look at ourselves in the mirror.........
Less than five hundred people turned up to listen to Anna and General (retired) V.K. Singh and more than 75% of this paltry number was comprised by erstwhile or serving India Against Corruption volunteers, senior citizens or those notables who have since switched their allegiance to the Aam Aadmi party........
Shame Hyderabad and India Against Corruption shame; more than 1.5 lakh Patnaites line up the streets and turn up to hear Anna when he addresses a public rally in the city and what sort of response do we give him??????
The bitter infighting and clamour for self glorification and gratification is out in the open for all to see, strategic alliances were bartered and made behind the scenes to ensure that the people who made the same remained in the spotlight and garnered their fifteen seconds of ill gotten fame.........
Two senior and long standing IAC volunteers or members who almost came to blows during the ill fated press conference were seen sharing the stage in an atmosphere of congeniality and bonhomie, in fact, one person who had even gone to the extent of calling Sufi maulvi Jilani a "Pakistani" was seen sharing the very same stage as him in a complete volte face........
Strange indeed are the ways and deeds of people who are hell bent upon garnering the limelight and media attention at all costs, the organisation that made them what they are and prodded them up could take a walk as long as they enjoyed their moment in the spotlight........
One such notable who has since switched his loyalties to the Aam Aadmi party and whose name finds a mention on the list of Aam Aadmi party members was very much present on the stage and even read out the very same poem that he had read out when Ms. Kiran Bedia and Gopal Rai were here in June 2012.......
And all this despite ten mails or more being bandied about to the effect that Anna had expressly forbidden all those elements who had shifted allegiance to the Aam Aadmi party to stay away from his newly launched public initiative, O glory and fifteen seconds of name, what untold crimes and follies are committed in your name.......
The writing on the wall is up there for all and sundry to see, saner, dedicated and committed elements of the now almost defunct IAC movement need to come together, chart out a new course and provide this rapidly sinking movement with a new found sense of purpose and direction.........
This impression going around about IAC Hyderabad being nothing more than a group of self seekers who are only interested in organising events once a year or so and happily resting on their laurels(?) in between needs to be dispelled beyond all reasonable doubt...........
The older generation has certainly enjoyed it's innings and more than it's fifteen seconds of fame under the spotlight and it's time to hand over the reins to the younger generation forthwith; do stick around as advisers and well wishers but do not make an attempt to abrogate the movement in your name.....
Your misdeeds and ruinous clamour for name, fame and the media glare have reduced the IAC movement to nothing more than a laughing stock, so do make way voluntarily for a newer and more committed lot hell bent upon making a difference on the ground, media glare or no media glare, your self interest and self serving motives have almost sounded the death knell of this peoples' movement, so do make way before the very same is dead and buried..........
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