So what has Anna Hazare really given India?

August 28, 2011 15:47

So then, at the end of 13 days of a historic anti-graft movement, both the government and Team Anna have been calling the results win-win. The otherwise strident Arvind Kejriwal's speech at the Ramlila Ground today as well as Anna Hazare's were studies in humility -- honest and irreproachable. PM Manmohan Singh yesterday called the unanimous vote (desk-thumping) on the Lokpal resolution, a victory of the people's democracy.

So what has Anna Hazare really given the nation, apart from the tenuous promise of a stronger Lokpal bill? Read this post in the Wall Street Journal.

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