Team Anna Crucial Core Committee Meet Today

India Against Corruption activist Anna Hazare's core group will meet today (29 October 2011) to debate on how to strategise its future cource and also whether the team should continue in its present form. Though today's meet is considered crucial in many ways, it is taking place without the presence of Anna Hazare. It still remains a big question - will Team Anna be revamped after allegations of financial misconduct against some of its key members. Incidentally, Anna has also hinted at an expansion of his Core Committee.

Anna is still continuing with his silence (Moun-vrat), but Raju Parulkar, who helps him blog, said that Anna Hazare wants the core group expanded. Anna wants the core group to be more representative, but has put a condition that the members must not have perceived self interests. Moreover, another core committee member Dr. Kumar Vishwas wrote a letter to Anna stating that the repeated attacks on each of the members is going on unabated and is distracting attention of the Team. Dr. Kumar even argued in his letter that the committee be disbanded.

Apart from outside attacks, there seem to be serious differences between the members. While Anna himself have repeatedly disagreed with Prashant Bhushan's views on Kashmir, allegations against Kiran Bedi have also proven to be an embarrassment for the team. Therefore, today's meeting also raises the question whether genuine differences are proving irreconcilable making revamping of the Team inevitable.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.