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Friday, 14 March 2014

Post #21: The Kejriwal Politics

          
      The politics by Arvind Kejriwal is somehow different from others but not completely different and unique. Kejriwal is a man who changed the whole contemporary Indian political scenario within no time. He forced the leaders to think over the 65+ year old politico-administrative setup. He showed that elections can be fought even without money. 
          Kejriwal launched his own political party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the 2nd of October, 2012 and fought his maiden Delhi assembly elections. When the result was announced, everyone was surprised to see that one year old debutant fetching 28 seats, oh my goodness. Though, it resulted in a hung house having split mandates. Kejriwal decided to organize Public gatherings to decide whether he should form a government or not. It could have been better if he could have asked "whether he should form a government with the help of Congress or not"? Eventually he was successful to form a govt for 49 days...just one short of half century!

           He is having that adhesiveness and a strong crowd pulling force but at the same time he has the worst crowd management idea. There are lots of example of crowd mismanagement like- Janata Darbar held in front of Central Secretariat premises resulted in a chaotic situation and CM had to leave the venue immediately, later on CM went on the terrace of CS building to consolidate the gatherings saying now onwards there will be no Janata Darbar, people would have to file the complaints online or through dedicated helpline. Recent chaos and fuss at Mumbai Airport and other places during road-show prove that he is lacking the idea of good crowd management. Now an FIR has been filed against him for violating traffic rules, even that auto rickshaw driver, who took Kejriwal from airport to other place, was charged with heavy fine.  

            Media called him as “A man in hurry”. It seemed that he was inspired from Nayak(Anil Kapoor starring movie ). Some creative guys on YouTube even produced a spoof video called Nayak-2(sequel of Nayak starring Arvind Kejriwal). Holding the Delhi CM post, he wanted to remove corruption within a day; he wanted to do everything he promised in a single day which consequently led him to resign over not passing Jan Lokpal Bill.  
             He added a new chapter in the history of Indian politics by becoming Dharna-King. Earlier a CM had never sat on dharna, he sat on dharna demanding to suspend three police personals and to bring Delhi police under state control but he called off  dharna within 3 days after getting assurance of  sending SHOs on the leave by the home ministry.  
             Some says giving resignation was nothing but a political gimmick as actually he wanted to prepare for LS polls. Earlier he had said that seating MLA, he or other from AAP won’t fight LS polls. So, it may be considered as a tactic to participate in LS. Though, till now at least his name is not in the list of candidates but there is a growing  probability that he will fight against Modi.
           One cannot deny that AAP also is now indulged in vote bank politics. Recently Kejriwal said that Khaps are part of our culture, so it is said to grab the votes of Jats and nothing else. Calling Modi a communal leader again and again may help AAP to get votes from Muslim but Kejriwal is forgetting that the SIT he is demanding for ’84 riots investigation, the same SIT has given clean chit to Modi. It proves that he is indulged himself in vote bank politics. He is trying to allure different class, caste and religion just to get the votes.
         He now knows that attacking the sinking boat of Congress won’t help him anymore to grab the throne at the center but now he has to counter the monster Modi. So, nowadays he is bombarding all the weapons he has to counter Modi. Kejriwal went on a four day visit to Gujarat, he was detained by the police because he was violating the Modal Code of Conduct of Election but what came in news Modi detained him. Next day, while he was going to meet Modi without any prior appointment police again detained him but what came in the news Modi detained him, nobody is safe here anything can happen anytime. His own party MLA takes a prior appointment to meet him. How can he meet anyone without taking appointment?? This can be considered as dirty politics to malign the name of Modi.
          Recently, he organized “Fund Raising Dinner with Kejriwal” in which the rate at Bengaluru was Rs.20000/- per plate and at Nagpur the rate was Rs. 10000/- only. What does it mean by Aam Aadmi party? A khaas aadmi dinner party??
          Some founder members of AAP have alleged that this party is deviating from the main goal and this party is working like a Pvt. Ltd. Company. His own members said that during AAP govt at Delhi, only some 2-3 people took key decisions in a closed room. Some even accused him for not giving appointments. Despite mounting pressure Kejriwal did not sack his own tainted minister Somnath Bharti, gave him clean chit through his own internal investigation and did not even bother to proceed a investigation against him. So this is what Aam Aadmi Party.
         Two three days ago a video went viral on YouTube and on TV Channels showing that Kejriwal and Punya Prasun Vajpayi from AajTak having conversation on which part to show on the channel, which to not and how much to show. This video on YouTube has crossed the 15 Million views and Kejriwal has no answer for this, why?? Some AAP leaders are alleging that it’s BJP behind the conspiracy. Now he is saying if he comes to power he will put the media persons in jail. Nothing can be bad than this kind of news. It is putting a serious question mark on the authenticity of AAP as well as Kejriwal’s politics.
           To top it all, it is not only the issue of corruption or passing Janlokpal Bill for running the country like India. To run this country, party should tell its own internal security policy, external affairs policy, environmental policy, Economic policy and other policies. But till now AAP has not even talked about all these and only eyeing on the throne at center.
          Right now, we need a strong leader from all the point of views. We need a stable govt to pursue our long term goal. But in Kejriwal, there is no longevity. He may create situation like Delhi assembly in the LS polls. There are some dubious ideas appearing in his vision. He is appearing not better than others. Kejriwal should depict his own vision to take India forward rather than a continuous attack on Modi. He will gain nothing, lose everything he has gained and others will gain for sure.
(My views are personal.)
        
        
            
               


His father was an engineer and he spent most of his childhood living in small northern Indian towns like Sonepat, Mathura and Hissar.
- See more at: http://realityviews.blogspot.in/2012/10/40-facts-about-arvind-kejriwal-short.html#sthash.jTecM84l.dpuf

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