Same difference

On the face of it, Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar and anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare may not have a great deal in common, yet political parties in Maharashtra are keenly discussing how they, in fact, do. Sure, the relationship between the two is hardly cordial and where one has participated in electoral politics for 45 years, the other prefers to draw his power from civil society. The two might be at loggerheads right now but both have managed to consolidate themselves in India’s capital, New Delhi, and have proved troublesome for the Congress in different ways.