Recent developments in Delhi involving Aam Admi Party (AAP)
led by none other than Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister cum founder of the
AAP deserved to be condemned. With the euphoria coming to an end, citizens
across India who are its well-wishers had to hang their heads in shame. The party’s
humility cleared the way for arrogance, a majority of supporters have commenced
a rethinking on the AAP’s capacity to bag at least 10 seats in the run-up to 16th
General Elections out of the proposed 300-400 seats, which the party has
decided to contest, thanks to its way of dealing with things confronting the
nation. True, soon after assuming power, the party, as already promised to the
Delhites cut electricity tariff by 50 percent, made necessary arrangements for
supply of nearly 700 litres of water free of cost thus drawing applause of many,
including those who owe allegiance to the party across the nation.
Within no time the party which started on confident note
gradually started showing hubris combined with belligerence.
As everyone knows the recent raid conducted by its Law
Minister Somnath Bharti along with some of the party’s followers at the abodes
of a few Ugandan ladies late into the night invited condemnation by AAP’s
followers and opponents alike. Mr.Bharti’s tiff with Delhi Police Commissioner
over the issue was deplorable, to put it simply.
Delhi police coming under the jurisdiction of Central govt
is answerable only to the Centre had no ‘locus standi’ to conduct a late night
raid at the abodes of women of Ugandan origin charging them with drug peddling,
how come the AAP govt of Delhi dared to jump to the fore?
The incident invited wide-spread condemnation by the Central
govt as also the women’s protests and even by the media.
Even in the face of widespread blame Delhi Chief Minister
himself along with his supporters held a dharna insisting expulsion of the
policemen involved in the incident. The person holding the mantle of CM should
not have ventured to lead a dharna while the people of Delhi wanted his
attention to look into their grievances and taken decisions to alleviate their
sufferings.
Calling himself an anarchist on which he was proud of, it
was most unbecoming of a party chief cum its Chief Minister to indulge in what
he and his followers did at Jantar Mantar. His siding with Law Minister
Mr.Bharti invited the wrath of many, including his well-wishers from top to
bottom. A Chief Minister keeping a clean image ought not to have stooped to
such a low level. A Minister in the UPA govt bluntly termed him mad before the
media.
When one is drunk with power, he goes to very great lengths
to establish his credentials and calls himself and his party a different one. If
all parties go on claiming themselves different, it transforms into a joke.
If this audacity on the part of Kejriwal and his colleagues are
not willing to mend their ways, it will in the short run itself turn into a
non-entity or a freak. If that be the case, Indian citizens’ remaining hope
will no doubt turn pitiful.
Let’s hope Mr.Kejriwal and his colleagues won’t forfeit the
faith that his followers reposed in him as they have many good things to
implement for the welfare of the Aam Admi. An immediate matter they have to
take into account is the foundation of an ideology otherwise it will go the way
of parties formed and disintegrated in the not so distant future. Turn the leaves
of vast volume of history AAP will certainly come to the way of those who
disintegrated in the 70s and 80s. Even Jayaprakash Narayan’s concept of Total Revolution
which created waves across the nation is a forgotten story now.
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