ANNAISM—THE NEW BUZZWORD

Its not far from memories of Tamilnadu people the famous rhetoric of MGR—ANNAISM. When he floated his own party AIADMK he wanted a principle something to sound similar to GANDHISM, hence he declared his party’s idealogy is ANNAISM.

When people asked what it meant, he explained to be being good & doing good.

Finally the party has traveled from ANNAISM to AMMAISM in 40 years since inception. The ideology was so void that anything could be filled in it.

History repeats itself, while doing so its done with a farce. Very true.

Recent anti corruption hero another ANNA this time from Maharshtra has again given us the concept of ANNAISM.  My friends im sure many of you will get wild with me for writing this but I feel so. Hence as usual I write it & democratically express my view

I tried deciphering the concept of ANNAISM. Perhaps Adishankara also would have not expressed the difficulties while trying to decipher Brahma & Atman as I do while trying to understand the famous ANNAISM which people proudly talk about.

TENET-1--MORALITY

First tenet of the concept is that morality resides only outside the parliament that too with people who support the movement , those who disagree with their modus operandi would be perpetually demonized & would be tainted as PRO CORRUPT & people having inclination for corruption

TENET-2—ALL POLITICIANS ARE CHEATS

They are apolitical in nature, hence ANNAISM says people in Parliament are cheats & thieves. Entire spectrum of politicians are here to loot the country. Team ANNA & their supporters are MESSIAHS who had come to save the nation from these politicians. But the irony of the fact is that same ANNA HAZARE had once felt very elated for having Sonia Gandhi to support their movement. They also wrote to all political parties seeking support. The team ANNA says all politicians are cheats & thieves but they write for their support & fight corruption. Truly confusing.

TENET-3—SECULARISM

This is a very famous jargon & it was the sole property of congress party.  Thanks to Modi now every individual is trying to prove secular credentials. RSS has pledged support to this movement so was BJP. It was untenable for them as their secular credentials would be at stake. Hence every day & night team ANNA spend their energy to distance themselves from these two. Hence to support this movement one has to be secular(read here ANTI HINDU)

TENET-4—APOLITICAL

They are apolitical but they will campaign against CONGRESS in Hissar bye polls. They would claim defeat of Congress is because they had campaigned against it.

When they fight corruption its for national cause, when a leader like Advani goes on rath yatra to create awareness on corruption it’s a political gimmick. They can take a stand against a political party but still they are apolitical.

TENET-5—They are democratic

They are democratic but only their version of JAN LOKPAL is to be rammed down the throats of 1.2billion people. Else they would not agree. They would use all forms emotional threats to bully the government. Its their way or the highway. But still they are democratic

TENET-6-They are united

They claim they are united & all the more they say government & politicians are trying drive a wedge between them. But when Prashant Bushan spoke about referendum in Kashmir they disown him. But still they are UNITED

TENET-7—SELF DISCIPLINE

The team is highly self disciplined. But still they would call their cadres to GHERAO the MPs in their constituencies & still remain disciplined

There are several more such facets which im trying to understand. Like the way MGR ANNAISM ended in now AMMAISM, Anna Hazare movement also trudges the same path. Supporters of ANNA say that he is not their leader but one amongst them. Very true it has become a movement without leadership & running like a HEADLESS CHICKEN