An Open Letter to Mr. Arvind Kejriwal & Leadres of Anti Corruption Movement

Dear Sir,
I am one out of the billion Indians whose blood boils to see the currents state of affairs of the country & the  adamant political leadership. I am a fresh college pass-out who has just stepped into the professional world to begin his career and who sees in front of him in the current Anti Corruption movement a hope of a better India.
I like another hundreds of thousands of young energetic youth of the country have been carefully observing the role of India Against Corruption through a birds eye view in shaping the face of new India.

My observations and  correlations are result of digging deep into the thoughts and trying to see everything in a holistic view. The main motive of this retrospection and the analysis of the state of affairs in the current scenario is to throw some light on still bigger picture & future results of this biggest movement ever in the history of Independent India.

The way in which the movement has taken striding sharp turns, the situation in present  appears to be melancholy blue. Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi have separated their paths to a common destiny, While you, and a few other major cogs in the wheel have chosen to fight for the cause through direct electoral politics.

 I see a remarkable amount of correlation of this movement to  the freedom struggle and the utterly bitter part is the movement as in its current state appears to be the Revolution of 1857 being repeated. Its now important to see the similarity in the two major revolutions for comparisons and learning and to make important decisions to turn the movement to a better ending.
The  first  similarity is in the event of being the debut major movements to mark  the first  fight against a grown disorder in power and dominant unjust practices. While the revolution of 1857 was against the East India Company and its practices forced on Indian masses, the IAC is a voice against the prevailing paralysis of the system  due to Corruption and its enforcement by habit and adamant attitude of the rulers. Second similarity is in the optimism and strong belief this movement has raised in the heart of a billion Indians, a vision of a better tomorrow. The movement has been extremely successful in motivating common man to raise their voice against current prevailing system around him. It has hence just like the revolution of 1857 lighted a lamp of hope in the heart of lost and depressed masses.
Third major similarity  of the two movements is in the way of fighting,  while the leaders of 1857 tried to take the fight head-on with extreme courage and patriotism, your ongoing exposing sequence  seem to be a head-on collision, a mission against all corrupt political leaders and parties. The strength of character and courage you and your team have projected is enormous and has definitely outplayed and kept the corrupt politicians on back foot but its important to realize that this head-on fight has also made the movement vulnerable of attacks from all directions.  Here its important to note that while the motive and courage of the movement remain to be pious but  point is battles are won by a blend of  strategic planning, courage and unaltered perspiration  and not shear courage.
With these striking similarities I fear the destination of the two movements to be similar. Its important we learn from the mistakes of history and change the path of the movement a little not repeating the same mistakes. The four major causes of failure of the Movement of 1857 were 1. Lack of unity and cohesion, 2.The rising was not widespread, 3.No common aims and ideals, 4.Lack of discipline, resources and organization

And sadly the four mistakes of 1857 are also the weakness of the IAC movement. Firstly lack of unity and cohesion is clearly visible with Anna Hazare & Kiran Bedi taking the different route. Why do not we realize the movement is bigger than any one of us? That its not an individual target or achievement no one here is fighting for oneself rather we all are fighting for all of us, then how is parting justified. Don't we tend to learn from mistakes of history. Here I feel Gandhi ji was who knew this and he kept the bigger picture always in his mind in the later successful freedom movement. We need to incorporate unity as Gandhi gave to second freedom movement.
Secondly The rising in 1857 was not wide spread and its started at premature state before the planned date the regular expose of a political leader seems to be an act lead more by adrenalin and  less by planning as the results gained out of it have not been thought of. We need to again insure we have reached the ground levels have motivated and carried people together before calling the final attack.For this lot of work needs to be done. People, for this noble cause have to be encouraged and brought in front to take lead. This is different from simple one time gathering at fasting sites. We need to motivate people and erect leaders with good cause at grass root level. Once we do this big home work the battle is half won. Gandhi ji did this in the second freedom struggle he was a big strategist.
Thirdly IAC has to make one simple sentence as their AIM/VISION not a compound/ complex sentence or a paragraph with number of clauses. The Aim can be just one,  rest everything must come under it. Remember we had such a vision in second freedom struggle when congress declared Purna Swaraj as their ultimate goal. We need such a Common Goal today which could be easily understood  even by illiterate.
Lastly lack of Discipline resources and organization yes IAC has been very successful but uphill the task ahead,  its  preparations are comparatively still weaker, There are still very handful of people who are taking the lead,  while maximum have made a stand that they  would support not move in to it. Its the responsibility of the drivers of the movement to make proper organization of the supporters and bring those just supporting into action. We need to be more organized, disciplined in conducting regular strengthening meetings with a grip and increasing our resources before we open our final attacks.

Its only with these flaws rectified I see a definite success of the IAC movement else this movement would also be remembered in history just for learning lessons. I Would have been bitter but very truly analytical and logical.

Yash Parashar