Projecting Anna Hazare’s movement as only a middle-class affair would be an under-assessment. If, for example, Mumbai’s dabbawalas who went on a day’s strike, for the first time in the 120 years of their operation, in support of Hazare’s movement belonged to the middle class, then the definition of middle class needs to change.
The privileged class that trivialises Hazare’s movement as a middle-class affair are less affected by rising prices of food items, vegetables, milk, LPG, transport, health care and education. Also, it is unfair to accuse TV anchors of going out of their way to support the so-called middle-class battle against corruption. Should they have advocated the case of a corrupt government instead?
M C Joshi, Lucknow
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