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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Split wide open: IAC's survey contradicts Anna

Split wide open: IAC's survey contradicts Anna

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published Published on Sep 18, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 18, 2012
-The Times of India

Fireworks can be expected from a crucial meeting to be held on Wednesday after Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC) said that 76% of people surveyed were in favour of the activists forming a political party. This comes even as social crusader Anna Hazare has opposed forming a political party and also distanced himself from IAC.

The results were published a day after Hazare, who will be reaching here on Tuesday for talks with activists on taking forward the movement, gave yet another sign of distancing himself from the group's political foray by asking those planning to join him to contact him in his ancestral village of Ralegan Siddhi.

According to the IAC, 561,701 out of 737,041 people or 76% of those surveyed were in favour of forming the party. The naysayers were 175,340, or 24%.

The survey results contradict Hazare's views, which he expressed in a video post, that he feels that a large number of people are against forming a political party.

In the video, Hazare told a group of activists opposing formation of a party that "some people are saying that a party should be formed but a large number are saying that it is not right to form a party or contest elections".

The 74-year-old activist, in a blog post on Sunday, also said politics will not deliver a better future for people and asked those planning to join his anti-corruption movement could contact him in Ralegan Siddhi.

Commenting on the survey results, Kejriwal said in a statement that they will put before Hazare the survey results during a meeting on September 19. "Hazare had told us that he will take a decision on the next course of action after getting the views of public on the issue. We will inform him about people's views. The meeting will decide on the method of the political alternative," he said.

Hazare is also likely to meet volunteers, who are opposed to forming a political party, on Tuesday evening.

Times View

If Anna Hazare is indeed reluctant to turn his anti-corruption movement into a political party, his instincts are right. As a powerful voice from within civil society, Team Anna played an important role in highlighting the issue of corruption and in ensuring some progress towards India getting a Lokpal bill. Its ability to play that role is not independent of the fact that it was avowedly outside the arena of party politics. On the contrary, that was an important part of its appeal for most people drawn to the movement it launched. The chances that this will be lost the moment Team Anna joins the political mainstream and hence becomes one of several choices before the electorate are high indeed.

The Times of India, 18 September, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Split-wide-open-IACs-survey-contradicts-Anna/articleshow/16442154.cms


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