allahabad during anna hazares movement and ramdevs campaign against black money they claimed to the biggest protagonist of antigraft and black money crusade in the city but with both the movements slowly melting down these activists have taken the shortcut to success for key team anna member in the city shyam sunder singh patel supporting candidates of his own caste remains the topmost priority in the assembly elections and for this he is going all out by organizing jatiya sabhas meetings of his caste members and making them realise about the importance of voting for the members of their own caste in his capacity as national organisational secretary of akhil bhartiya kurmi kshatriya mahasabha patel also quotes statistics to woo his caste members and never fails to remind them about the fate of partyparties who tried to ignore kurmis however the only point of solace for his erstwhile patrons team anna lies in the fact that while issuing an appeal in favour of candidates of his own caste patel has asked the brethren of his caste to vote for a person with a clean and untarnished image when asked about the sudden change in his public life patel took umbrage in ancient hindu scriptures to drive home his caste prejudices and said yadi main apne hi gharwalon ke kaam nahi aa sakta hoon to mera sarvajanik jeewan mein rehne ka kya fayda if i am unable to benefit my own family members than what is use of remaining in public life but when questioned about the fact that his mentors like anna hazare and baba ramdev never gave weightage to such issues and instead focussed on other burning issues like corruption and unemployment which he had earlier espoused patel said they are always there to be addressed first we have to take note of bringing the backward and deprived castes into the national mainstream to accomplish this we have to elect them as our representatives so that our voices are heard in the corridors of power what has raised eyebrows in the political circles is the decision of another team anna key member kusumlata arya to contest elections from city west assembly seat on janata dal united ticket fully aware of the fact that janata dal u supremo was among the most vocal opponents of jan lok pal bill in parliament and outside when asked why she was aligning with a party which had created hurdles in the passage of jan lok pal bill in parliament she evaded the query and refused to discuss the issue several other antigraft crusade team members who perhaps realising about the exigencies of time have switched gear and aligning with castebased groups and supporting candidates of their own caste irrespective of parties to which they belong among them are some student leaders never ran short of criticising political parties having castereligion based agenda now they are rallying in these parties to make their presence felt in the 2012 assembly elections