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Democracy & The Middle-Class
Uditha Devapriya
In 2019 Anna Hazare, the anti-corruption activist who almost brought the Manmohan Singh government down in 2011, cried foul: “The BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] used me.” Narendra Modi swamped the Lok Sabha with a clear majority in 2014 thanks in large part to Hazare’s campaign against the Congress regime. Hazare first emerged in 2011, when he attempted to exert pressure to implement more stringent anti-corruption legislation. With its unenviable track record on corruption, the Singh government produced a massive oppositional backlash against it from the ranks of India’s civil society, with Hazare at the forefront.
The irony of Hazare embarking on another anti-government campaign eight years later does not seem to have been lost on anybody. In its first few outbursts the Hazare campaign had been devoid of politics, and indeed had defined itself by its