An anti-graft Team Anna buy politics
Although
Anna Hazare is yet to clearly spell out whether his team will join
politics or support clean candidates and act as a pressure group, many
are terming the move a logical next step forward for Team Anna.
Until recently Team Anna was steadfastly against entering politics.
The latest round of indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in the heart of national capital had made some points amply clear.
The
hunger strike was not going to bring in a Lokpal or for that matter an
SIT against corrupt ministers despite some of the fasting members being
close to being hospitalised without the fast yielding any result.
Team Anna today decided to end its indefinite fast tomorrow and take a plunge into politics.
"It
is another two years to go to polls in 2014. We have to go to people
throughout the country in the next one-and- half years".
"Why
waste time on fasts? Tomorrow at 5 pm, all fast will end," Hazare told
supporters at Jantar Mantar at the end of an address in which he
enunciated the civil society's approach to providing a political
alternative to the current system.
However,
questions still remained as to what Team Anna would do regarding the
political alternative and whether they would launch a party themselves.
Team
Anna asked people to send their suggestions about politicial
alternative through text messages or emails or through the opinion poll
in their website.
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