Arrest corruption, not those who protest against it

Sixty-four years ago, the Congress Party led the independence movement that exposed British rule as repressive , callous and often stupid. But in last week's Anna Hazare fiasco, the same Congress Party exposed itself as repressive , callous and stupid. By jailing Hazare , it simply created a wave of public support for him that eclipsed anything seen earlier. That's what happened when the British Raj jailed Mahatma Gandhi, and when Indira Gandhi jailed Jayaprakash Narayan and his followers in the 1970s. Hazare cannot compare in stature with Mahatma Gandhi or Jayaprakash Narayan.

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