Social activist Anna Hazare endorsed Bengal chief minister’s national ambitions and announced that he would go around the country campaigning for “good candidates” Mamata Banerjee puts up in the coming elections,but hours later he made it clear that his backing is not to any party but only to an individual.
Anna said, "I am supporting her but I am not supporting any political party," without elaborating but he reasoned that he was supporting Mamata Banerjee as she agreed to implement his "17 point agenda" covering a range of issues including containing graft and bringing in more transparency if she comes to power at the Centre.He clarified,"I will not support any party, even after 2014 elections. I just want to serve my country and will support anybody who makes similar efforts, but will not support any political .
Mamata gladly grabbed the support with both hands, saying her “poor party” would field “as many” candidates as possible with Hazare’s “advice”, though it remained unclear how much Trinamul would stand to gain.Though many believe Hazare was Mamata’s answer to the Left’s efforts to rustle up a third front. Trinamul MP Derek O’Brien said, “Anna and Didi are naturally aligned. They live simple lives and want to work together to formulate policies that will help people and change the nation’s political status quo,” .
Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee predicted 60 seats for the Congress and 150 for the BJP in the coming general election, while reiterated her stand not to align with Congress, BJP and Left parties but was evasive on a possible post-poll alliance with either.
Mamta, when questioned that if she was eyeing a national role, she refused to either confirm or refute the idea. While she vociferously kept saying that her loyalties and priorities remain with Bengal, she also made it clear she is equally committed to the idea of a Left, Congress, BJP-less third alliance.
It is more clear now that Mamata's plans rotate around the chances of possibility (greed) of benefiting like AAP in Delhi or a possible threat from Arvind Kejriwal that led her in making Anna her party mascot to the vehement anti-Congress, anti-BJP pitch, but her moves at present have a clear AAP copy-pest stamp to them, but the million dollar question is : How it's fate will be different than " 49 days Noutanki of Kejriwl" ?
But it will be now more curious and lucrative to watch how aping the AAP strategy with Anna will help Mamata deepen her clout in national politics.Will this move help Anna too, in his comeback to relevance with Mamata's backing, or rather it confirms the logical conclusion leading to the question, "Do Anna has many options left in his drive to change the nation’s political status quo ?"
Anna's this option has a compulsive support of accepting his 17 points charter, but Mamata is not a new entrant in the political ring and not ideologically and ethically against the established political traditions embodied by the Congress and BJP. It is important to judge that though Mamata's ideology might be pro-grassroots, but it has not shown any difference in her last few years of rule in Bengal, with all the partisan virus of the dominant politics of Left in local Bangla politics and corruption and crude governance of Congress at centre floundering thick and fast with TMC cadre rule in Bengal.
INDIA HONEST confirms the fact that people of India including Annaji have very little options left in the basket in the present circumstances. One has to choose either Congress led UPA3 or BJP's Modi led NDA 2, as neither Mamta's Federal front nor Jaylalita's Third front have any logical conclusive possibilities.
Internal division by regional politics has harmed India most in last few decades in its endeavours of a strong advancement led by a strong centre. But now people have suffered and learnt a lot and they must be wise enough to rise above individualistic and regional/divisive politics to take a new and judicious attempt to build a strong developed new India, both nationally as well on international standard.