Ralegan Siddhi:
After the near flopshow at the MMRDA Ground in Mumbai, Anna Hazare has been keeping a low profile. Ever since his return to his village Ralegan Siddhi two days back, Anna has not come out of his room and has not met his visitors. Anna has been silent after the Lokpal Bill fiasco in Parliament.
Reports now say a meeting of the core team of Anna Hazare has been postponed due to Anna's poor health. Team Anna was due to meet next week to strategise on its campaign in poll bound-states.
Anna openly declared before ending his fast at the MMRDA Ground that he will campaign against the Congress in the five poll-bound states after what he termed the ruling party's failure to bring in an effective Lokpal Bill.
Anna ended his scheduled three-day fast on the evening of the second day itself. While many attributed the abrupt end of his agitation to the low turnout at the protest venues, Anna's health has been a major concern; though reports say after a bout of viral fever, the Gandhian's health is returning to normal now.
Though Team Anna has said it will campaign against the Congress in the upcoming Assembly elections, but surely they must be introspecting as well after the rather lukewarm response to their most recent agitation campaign. Both MMRDA Ground in Mumbai where Anna was fasting and the Ramlila Maidan in the national capital saw an extremely low turnout.
The concern for Team Anna will be what do they from here and what will be their strategy of the Lokpal Bill agitation now.