From anti-corruption to anti-development, Anna & Zolawalas

From anti-corruption to anti-development, Anna & Zolawalas
Ahmedabad, 27 May, 2011





Anna Hazare’s leftist/socialist ground team in Ahmedabad had organized an event called ‘public hearing’ in Gujarat Vidyapith campus on Thursday.

Anti-Gujarat govt, anti-Right wing, anti-Modi, anti-BJP NGOs and activists with leftist, socialist, pseudo secular ideology were called to this event from corners of Gujarat. And they were all happily present with lots of complains, mostly targeting the state government.

Anna Hazare, his shadow companion Agnivesh and host of the event Mallika Sarabhai were on stage. The venue was provided by left tilted Vice Chancellor led Gujarat Vidyapith.

Following are the projects and industries against whom representations were made by Zolawalas present in this arranged public hearing(which was virtually going on with single agenda to defame Modi govt before Hazare who had praised it earlier).

Adani port
Ambuja cement plant
Surat’s diamond industry
Bhavnagar’s proposed Mithi virdi nuclear plant
South Gujarat/Maharashtra’s river grid project
Special investment regions of Dholera, Dahej, Santalpur
Gujarat’s construction industry
Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati river front
Mumbai-Delhi Dedicated Freight Corridor
Gandhinagar’s Mahatma Mandir
Tata Nano project
Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India

So zolawalas protested against every kind of employment giving entity, industry and infrastructure project. Zolawalas, very few in number, but vocal and well connected in their network had problem with diamond industry in the name of exploitation of workers, had problem with Adani port in the name of poor fishermen, had problem with river grid project in the name of tribal, ditto they have problem with SIR in the name of village land, Sabarmati river front in the name of slum dwellers, dedicated freight corridor in the name of land acquisition.

Good if those vocal participants were genuine.But they are talking all this for many years, and they are just talking. Talking against tree cutting for 40 years is nothing if you have not planted one tree during this long time.

Suppose if these leftists, socialists chalis chor and Alibaba Anna were in power, Gujarat could be worse than Bengal. So, no to river grid, and let there be no pipe water, and lets protect all farms and no railway line or cement factory, and lets our nation remains poor fishermen nation and let there be no port, let there be no nuclear plant and allow coal to burn for power, let there be no river front and let slum dwellers stay on dirty banks of river in worst condition for next 100 years.

Flying in air(Anna arrived in Ahmedabad by air), moving in SUVs(throughout his Ahmedabad tour), staying in rich people houses( he stayed in former Justice’s house) and talking about poor people, was always fashionable, and Anna Hazare is added to such brigade, thanks to company he keeps, and hosts he likes to oblige.