Anna didn’t even make an appearance at the stage set aside for him at Jantar Mantar Marg. Instead, he chose to sit on the stage at the adjoining Sansad Marg. It was, to put it subtly, a strange thing to do since Anna had said in a recent interview that he didn’t want the movement to turn political as “political parties manipulate such situations against each other”. And here he was sharing the stage with Vaiko, a Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam member, Kavita Krishnan and Atul Kumar Anjan, card-carrying members of the Communist Part of India, among others.