Home Minister Saheb missed a real point that Sh. Kejriwal is not an ordinary Chief Minister but he is “the most honest, a divine personification“. Not only CM but whole AAP people are something special. They are most honest. Even if Ravan joins AAP he becomes Ram. They are above all, rather they are law in themselves. AAP leaders & people have special divine power to say any thing & then deny them, even if you have recorded them.
What we got from Arvind Kejriwal this past weekend was a very old-fashioned and familiar brand of politics: brazen denial of wrongdoing; willful twisting of facts; and refusal to accept responsibility. When Arvind, Yodendra Yadav & other AAP leaders speak, they sounds more a slick party spokesmen than a real leaders, smugly asserting their and their party’s rightness over and over again. Their mistakes are likely to prove the most damaging for three simple reasons.
One, it violates the will of his own voters. AAP promised, “We will perform.” And this is exactly why the people voted in favour of AAP. Delhi voters are looking for a new kind of governance, not a new form of protest politics. Everyone wants their Chief Minister/Ministers to work, craft policy, institute reforms, allocate resources, not stage fasts or sit-ins. People vote for their leaders to exercise their duly elected power, not for street dramas like some powerless outsider which is disingenuous and irresponsible. Governing by dharna is risky strategy, at best, but it is downright foolish when the “principle” involved is the fate of four policemen whose primary crime was to resist an out-of-control Law Minister.
Two, mob politics is not a winning strategy. “This is same old goondagardi bullshit. Surrounding the women, making them urinate in public. They’re like any other political party,” this is common observation which was expressed by the people during sitting-in drama. “Far from changing the political culture, this is a naked assertion of all that is wrong with the notion of power in India. The idea that power provides a shortcut between intention and action, connecting the personal interests of the ruler with the desired outcome without regard to rules or procedures is precisely the one that the AAP is in theory fighting.” The sight of a politician leading an angry mob of party workers instantly evokes revulsion in the average Indian in the capital. Moreover, Somnath Bharti did not target some notorious local goonda or political thug, but four hapless women whom his brave warriors terrorised and allegedly manhandled. This isn’t moral activism but moral policing of the Rama Sene kind. Till date some organisations were blamed for moral policing but no main stream party indulged themselves in this type of thing. To put it in Kejriwal’s favoured Aam Aadmi-speak: Goondagardi nahin chalegi ji, AAP ki bhi nahin.
Three, Lok Sabha voters are watching. Staging a dharna in support of such dubious shenanigans compounds the mistake of bad politics with the colossal error of misgovernance. What record will AAP point to when they go out to campaign in the coming Lok Sabha polls? A record of harassing Nigerian women, of shutting down traffic in Delhi?
The bizarre and unwarranted dharna instead confirms our worst fear: that Arvind Kejriwal is more comfortable railing at power than exercising it for the public good. He cannot, in fact, perform. “Kejriwal understands that he sold unrealistic dreams and wants to escape before he is found out,” Unfortunately, such expedient theories raises the growing suspicion that AAP is substituting political theatre for the hard work of governance.
The head that wears the crown doesn’t get to play underdog. Within a span of weeks, Kejriwal has moved swiftly from conviction to hubris. He seems to have already lost interest in playing Chief Minister, and is talking of running for Parliament. But thanks to the chaos on the streets of Delhi unfolding today, the chances are he will lose both: the gaddi in Delhi and the election in 2014. Congress has only one Mani Shanker but AAP is full of them. But you can’t blame them as they are different. They can abuse anyone but their abuse does not come in category of abuses.
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#AAP Government’s enthusiasm has turned into overconfidence of an unhealthy kind. I vehemently detest the way #AAP is running the Government. Arvind Kejriwal and his team of idiots proving that they’re nothing but a bunch of rogue administrators.
AAP Government is awesome.It needs to be thorouhly exposed to save the people of Delhi.All its actions are towards publicity and mobocracy only.Arvind Kejriwal will ruin Delhi on account of his ugly activism Its vigilantism needs to be controlled as it smacks of Maoits philosphy.