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Twitter, Facebook get active on Hazare's
political ambitions
Thursday August 02, 2012 08:20:18 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Social
networking sites went abuzz as soon as Anna Hazare announced that
his team would seek to form a "political alternative", with many
welcoming the move and some accusing Team Anna of "deceiving
people".
"People in our country are in desperate need of a political
alternative… this is a great step," tweeted Shreyasi Mukerji.
Agreed, Mayank Kumar with the tweet: "Good to hear about Team
Anna's decision to join politics. Not the quickest, but definitely
a much better way to bring about the change."
According to Rashmi Vohra, Team Anna had opened the floodgates for
the "educated youth who wanted to join politics but did not have a
suitable option."
"We will soon have a clean, honest party that we can proudly
become a part of. Cheers Team Anna," Vohra posted on her Facebook
wall.
However, there were some who questioned the intentions of Team
Anna.
"People supported Team Anna because it was perceived as
apolitical. Now it has joined politics, so shouldn't it's
supporters oppose them too?" tweeted Santhosh Pandey.
"Team Anna has drifted from what it set out to do… they have
deceived people… in the end they too are hungry for power and are
thus joining politics," posted Fauzan Umar on Facebook.
Chinmay Kulkarni tweeted that Team Anna should "push for Jan
Lokpal" instead of forming a political party as it was not worth
waiting 30-40 years for a corruption free India.
Some saw the announcement as a threat to the main opposition party
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rather than the Congress.
"If Team Anna forms party, it will do what Chiranjeevi's PRP (Praja
Rajyam Party) did to TDP (Telugu Desam Party)… split opposition
votes," tweeted Aravind Bandarupalli.
Agreed Pulkit Arora: "Team Anna's demand for JanLokpal was
perfectly legitimate. BJP shud have supported them properly. Now
it wil hav 2 face them in elections."
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