Annaji, Please Don’t Allow Your Name to be Used to Kill Your Own Baby.

As a person who was in the forefront of Anna Movement in Kerala and in organizing a relay fast in front of Thrissur Corporation Office on all days of Annaji’s indefinite fast in Delhi for Jan Lokpal in August 2011, I am much shocked and pained by some remarks of Annaji leaked to the public against Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party. When AAP was formed I had my own doubts whether a political party is needed to fight corruption and bring in the much needed Jan Lokpal  even though the Congress was challenging many a time India Against Corruption movement to form its own party and test its support among the people. Arvind Kejriwal was ready to accept the challenge but some other leaders including Annaji was against the formation of the Party. Initially my support was with the latter group. My opinion was even if a party is formed to realize the ideals for which India Against Corruption stood, it should have Anna Hazare as its moral leader and Arvind Kejriwal, its executive leader as in the freedom struggle when Mahatma Gandhi  was its moral leader and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the executive leader.

                        Kejriwal invited Annaji to take the leadership of the party many a time. I also waited for a long time hoping Annaji will come to the leadership of the party. Then it became clear that some people are misleading Annaji and trying to insert a wedge between him and Arvind Kejriwal. From last week’s unfortunate remarks of Annaji  against AAP and Kejriwal it has become crystal clear that some vested interests are misleading Annaji. I have made a fervent appeal to Annaji not to be party in the evil efforts of those dark forces to kill his own baby in the womb. All the leaders and, rank and file of Aam Aadmi Party still consider Annaji as the father of the party and its moral leader. All are in the hope that someday in future he will come forward and assume the moral leadership.

                         I have no doubt in my mind that RSS and its political arm BJP are behind the leakage of some of Annaji’s private remarks  and his letter to Kejriwal. Everybody knows that AAP has eaten more into the political base of BJP rather than Congress in New Delhi and that is the reason for the leakage and the whispering campaign of the RSS and BJP going on in Delhi. RSS has proved in the past that they are masters of the tactics of whispering campaigns.