Anna Hazare

I have been reading mixed reactions on Anna Hazare's fasting. I thought of putting a status on facebook and it is too long status for FB to handle..Instead, I choose to write my two cents on the blog. Corruption has multiple facets - Anna is now fighting from very important facet. (i.e Legislation) Why I say that? Let me tell a story that most of you know and agree - Who the hell in India thought 20 years ago that Bihar would go for violence free elections in 2010. But Bihar proved it and country is amazed...Who made it possible? T.N.Seshan, the CEC in 1991 who started implementing electoral practices.. What made it possible? The People's Respresentative Act of 1952. Seshan used/implemented whatever there in the act, he didn't invent new ideas. So..What's the moral of the story..We need both tools and toolsmiths to do something good, the toolsmith can't do anything alone without tools. Anna Hazare is fighting for the tool(Jan Lokpal Bill), hope that we find a toolsmith(a committed politician) in the future. Lets support him. On the same lines, we had several legislations and govenment policies that helped India to curb population growth and control AIDS etc. We may think that each individual has to change in order country to change. To me, that's nice in theory but not easy to implement. What we need are some good policies, legislations and a strong leadership who can continuosly campaing those policies which get into people's mind over the period of time which change the people, but it is hard that change comes from each individual silently, It has to come through some rigouros campaign and noise. Just think of campaign against Polio - You would have found polio drop camps in every bust station in Andhra Pradesh during Sankranthi season and now AP is almost Polio free and lot of awareness is created among the public. It didn't come easily but through strong and willful campaigns and policies of government.