Slinging scribbles

The news about Anna Hazare’s desire to float a political party caught fire as quickly as his decision to disband the core committee. This, just after the latter’s call out to the public to decide upon the party candidates. Within just few days after officially announcing his entry into politics, the anti-corruption crusader blogged , “We’re stopping the activities of Team Anna today. It was formed to fight for Jan Lokpal… Now people have asked us to leave fasting and give a political alternative.” The recent comment from Hazare has yet again, made the differences within the 25 member committee quite apparent. An ignorant Kiran Bedi expressed her disappointment over the move on Twitter with a tweet, “Read Anna’s blog. Do not know what all it means? For we all had very useful preparatory meeting with Annaji wherein he gave useful guidance!”To come up with such an important decision without informing its members makes one wonder if there are enough voices in the...

BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) clearly seems to be the party in spotlight. With the Congress time and again showing its inefficiencies in establishing the law and order, it’s the opposition that the people are looking up to at the moment.  In a candid tete-a –tete, veteran leader of BJP, Arun Jaitley bares it all on raging issues of Anna Hazare, Terrorism, Anna Hazare and the political unrest in Karnataka. Excerpts from the interview. With the recent untraced and unwarned terror attacks in Pune, how ready is the country to tackle such issues? India has always been the target of the terror attack. It is mostly the handiwork of the sleeper cells belonging to Indian Mujahideen, Student Islamic Movement in India (SIMI). These sleeper cells provide a convenient cover to the terrorists to strike in public places and create a fear apart from the colossal damage. The bombs that went off in Pune did not explode with high magnitude thanks to the dampness and rain. Had the bombs ...