Hisar by-poll result Anna's defeat: Moily

Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and union minister M. Veerappa Moily Monday termed the Hisar Lok Sabha by-poll result as a 'defeat' for Anna Hazare, saying if corruption had been the issue the result would have been different.
'You should know if Anna's appeal has worked. It has worked against him because I don't want to comment on the person who has won. It is the matter of those people who elected him. The big question is whether the cause of Anna Hazare has been served by the result of the election. That is the question he has to answer, people have to answer,' Moily told mediapersons on the sidelines of a programme here.
India's ruling Congress finished third in the Hisar Lok Sabha by-election in Haryana where Anna Hazare had campaigned against it. The party also lost the other three assembly by-elections in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Monday.
Of the four states, the Congress is in power in all except Bihar.
In Hisar, the Haryana Janhit Congress' (HJC) Kuldeep Singh Bishnoi triumphed, while the Indian National Lok Dal candidate came second and the state's ruling Congress third.
'If you want to make a study of the poll result, the question is for Anna Hazare or his team or for the nation to judge whether it has served the cause that is very dear to him, namely corruption.'
'If corruption is an issue I don't think this kind of result can happen. Notwithstanding the corruption issue the result has come. If corruption was an issue, the Congress candidate should have won. That means it is not victory of Anna Hazare, rather it is his defeat.'
Moily also rubbished queries that Hazare could pose problems for the Congress in the near future.
'The Congress party has seen more than 130 years. You know when the British empire was not a problem then how can one individual or a group of individuals be a problem for the Congress. There is an inbuilt capacity in the Congress to face any tsunami or turbulence and it can come out successfully,' said Moily.

Moily can appear to take take solace by lulling himself that it was defeat of Anna.
But it is not.
Anna was just driving home the point that the congress being in power and also the party having the largest number of MPs, it is its duty to expedite the anti-corruption drive.
Right from the time Anna started his agitation the congress has been dragging its feet using some pretext or other trying to find chinks in Anna's armour to defame him putting out their pet dog like Manish Tewari and Diggy Raja to bark at Anna.
His comparison with the Congress's fight against the British is entirely misplaced.The congress at that time and now is completely changed. At that time it had leaders who thought for and fought for the country. Now all the leaders are just grabbing wealth for themselves.
The whole nation at that time was behind the congress party as they wanted to drive out the congress.
Now the whole nation is behind Anna to drive out the congress.
And yet they are not seeing the writing on the wall