As a school kid, I participated many
times in Republic day parade & functions on 26th January, When not in
school, I watched republic day parade on TV to see different contingent of
armed forces & diversity of India. Pride with which our armed forces march
is infectious. The armed forces are defenders of our republic & republic
day is celebrated as day of adopting our constitution & in honor of our armed
forces. Various state processions that we see just give a glimpse of diversity
& complexity of our nation. Those who understand it understand the value of
Republic Day. Those who follow AAP politics closely will know what I am going
to say next. I can't respect any Indian who disrespects this festival of
democracy & when I heard Kejriwal saying that republic day is nothing but
procession for VIPs & threatened to fill Rajpath with his AAP supporters, I
was shocked beyond words & wondered if any patriotic Indian can ever say
such thing.
I have been a critique of Kejriwal or
former Anna movement people starting a new political party because I knew that
this move will only help Congress. I, like many other Indians, have an opinion
that Congress & its style of politics is root cause of all evils in India
& unless you have Congress completely removed from India, we won’t be able
to make very significant difference in India. Therefor whosoever ends up giving
& taking support of Congress politically ultimately ends up helping its
survival. I must remind you that Congress of 1940s is very different than
Congress which is now a proprietary of a family & its sycophants. Many will remember that IAC movement was
started in backdrop of rampant corruption scandals of Congress by likes of Sri
Sri Ravishankar & later joined by Annaji, Arvind Kejriwal. Before even IAC
was born people like Baba Ramdev & RSS affiliate organizations were raising
awareness about corruption of Congress government. I was also trying to do my
best to spread awareness through whatever public forum & social media tools
access I had. I was thrilled by IAC movement & supported it & was on
Ramleela grounds when Annaji broke fast on 27th August 2011. Events which happened after August 2011
dismayed me as I saw people like Kejriwal trying to play mischief with Annaji. I
liked activist Kejriwal & like many, promoted his pictures of sleeping at
train station via available channels. Later on news reports started coming that
Kejriwal is about to ditch IAC movement for politics, under influence of former
Congress strategist & Rahul Gandhi adviser like Yogendra Yadav, Sonia’s NAC
member & Arvind’s guru Aruna Roy, known Narendra Modi hater Ashutosh Gupta (Former
IBN7 editor & Now AAP LS candidate) & Prashant Bhushan. I started
doubting Kejriwal’s intent & reason behind his desire to form political
party. A well informed activist like Arvind Kejriwal already knows what the
root cause of India’s problem is, but when instead of removing that root cause,
he starts helping in its survival by attacking the people who can definitely
finish Congress, than it’s obvious his intents are not pure. As I said earlier
I liked activist Kejriwal, but after seeing his range of activities after he
formed political party, I don’t like politician Kejriwal.
There are various reasons, over a period
of time, which led me to conclusion that Kejriwal & current top leadership
of AAP is carrying out Sonia Gandhi’s agenda. There was a great hope in some
when AAP won 28 seats in Delhi Assembly elections & got a chance to form
government as it provided Arvind Kejriwal a chance to walk the talk. It’s very
rare you get what you wish for in politics so soon. City state of Delhi, with
less rural population provided a great platform to practice his absurd communist
inspired theories.
As we all know that there is great
difference between theory & practice. Kejriwal started realizing it soon
that shouting slogans as activist is entirely different from governing even
city state like Delhi. Some of his stupid ideas which miserably failed included
having volunteers oversee hospitals (which ended up volunteers shouting at
doctors who are performing operation), midnight raid & public shaming of African women by following majoritarian view
of a locality, some lame duck idea of Swaraj Janta Darbar (later turned out he
stole Swaraj book from Ajay Pal Nagar) from which he ran away on first day,
idea of providing reservation in Delhi colleges to Delhites alone by completely
ignoring that Delhi being national capital is melting pot of India (how
different it is from Raj Thackrey does in Mumbai?), giving out doles &
subsidies of electricity & water to non-needy people which doesn’t help in
creating long term sustainable asset, shouting that Discoms are looters but
ultimately paying them back in form of subsidy, calling Mukesh Ambani biggest
corrupt but paying his brother 323 crore in power subsidies, fooling
Autowallahs & temporary workers by promising the moon & not delivering
the mustard seeds. He also claimed that his corruption helpline has received more
than 1 lakh calls but here is loophole, out of those calls only 1200 were
considered prosecutable, out of these prosecutable calls conviction will happen
in less than 50 cases, so what Kejriwal has achieved by having this helpline? No
one in AAP now takes name of Mohalla Sabha based ticket distribution of
Loksabha candidates & winnability or connection with Kejriwal has become
only criteria. His tenure of 49 days is full of several such contradictions
between walk & talk. In-fact walk & talk contradictions started when
after saying it openly that he won’t ever join politics to taking Congress
support in forming his government.
Inspite of all goof ups & U-Turns
which Kejriwal has made as politician so far, lots of his supporters still
believe that his intentions can’t be a suspect. But as a keen watcher of
Congress style politics & seeing Kejriwal following the same, I have great
doubts on intentions of Kejriwal & current AAP Leadership. It’s a known
fact that Kejriwal & Sisodia have been receiving funds from Ford Foundation
& foreign agencies for a long time. Prashant Bhushan somehow feels that
giving referendum rights to Kashmiri separatists & tribal in Maoist areas
is a brilliant idea. With anti-dam activist like Medha & anti-nuclear power
activist Udaykumar as prominent candidates how exactly AAP wants to make energy
hungry India as energy surplus state? AAP is inviting known convicted Maoist
murderers like Soni Sori & Sabyasachi Panda (he killed 80 years old sanyasi
Lakshmananand Saraswati) in AAP, I fail to understand how it will strengthen
India. AAP thinks that all capitalists, except Jindals, Munjals & Bajajs,
are bad & never say a single word against coal scam tainted Jindals.
Suddenly on eve of one of the most
important general election we are hearing from so called great anti-corruption activist,
as politician saying that Communalism is bigger threat than corruption. Kejriwal also raised flag that Batla House
encounter as fake & wrote to free khalistani terrorist from jail. Recently
lots of people who were involved as founding members in AAP such as Madhu
Bhaduri (Former Indian Ambassador to Portugal) & Ashwini Upadhyay
(head-legal cell), have raised so many questions on functioning of AAP &
Kejriwal. Kejriwal, who likes to ask all in universe his questions as quiz
master, is not even responding to his own colleague’s queries. I have also
tried asking many questions to AAP leadership via social media but none of them
responded. People who are getting ticket for Lok Sabha in
AAP without doing any work in past for AAP has created a lot of issues related
to failing of internal swaraj in AAP. Just an example of his double speak can be how
he has given ticket to Yuvdhir Khyaliya, who replaced Ashok Khemka and gave
clean chit to Robert Vadra in DLF scam while Kejriwal himself never gets tired
of taking credit of exposing Vadra scam! Kejriwal & his AAP looks like more
and more smaller version of Congress, which tried to rule via pseudo
secularism, lies & fooling people. Only difference which I am able to see
between Congress & AAP is Congress fooled poor & illiterate while AAP
& Kejriwal are able to fool educated people. I would have still given AAP a
chance if they first proved themselves in governing city state like Delhi &
than thought of big national ambition. But it felt like AAP under Kejriwal
& Yadav is more interested in running Sonia Gandhi’s agenda of cutting anti
Congress, pro BJP votes in urban pockets than doing any good for common public.
AAP & its leadership seem to be more
interested in hogging TV time by making outrageous allegations & doing one
drama after other. Kejriwal & AAP are adding nothing but nuisance value in
otherwise an election which might be giving India a clear cut winner in form of
Narendra Modi. I hear lots of people as saying that Kejriwal is behaving like a
Mohalla aunty, whose fame is based on gossip mongering & finding fault
about all people & their families in Mohalla while saying that her kids are
greatest of all. What gives backing to my doubts on Kejriwal & AAP’s
intention is suddenly anti-corruption party has become anti Narendra Modi
party. If you heard any of Kejriwal’s recent speeches 99% of its content is
about Narendra Modi is being a demon who will kill us all if he comes to power.
He recently went to Gujarat on study tour to check development in Gujarat. It’s
so funny that a person who was earlier issuing honesty certificates will now
start issuing development certificate too & have diversified his certification
portfolio. I have lived in Gujarat since 2003 & own property in one of the
best Gujrat cities so I have seen what kind of development Narendra Modi has
done in Gujarat. but item Girl of Politics is behaving like gutter
inspector or infact like a foreign tourist, who if he wants, will find filth in
NewYork, London, Paris & click pictures to show how backward these places
still are! Readers are mature enough to make their decision on what Narendra
Modi has done. When Kejriwal says he wants to show people truth of Gujarat by
telling lies than it pains me to see how low he has fallen. He could have shown
how different India would be under him by ruling Delhi but he decided to run
away in pretext of not passing Jan Lokpal while Orissa assembly passed Lokayukt
bill at same time without any fuss. If he did something good I would have been
interested in listening to his criticism of Narendra Modi, who has been
developing Gujarat on positive agenda while Kejriwal only talks negative about
everything under the sun.
I have problem with Kejriwal
telling contradictory lies with innocent face & it doesn’t inspire
confidence in me regarding his intentions. I doubt Kejriwal’s intentions as he
is more interested in doing drama by sleeping on road, having more anti
nationals & fringe elements in AAP, destabilizing India by fractured
mandate & hog more TV time by hook or crook. If sleeping on roads could
bring revolutions, many animals are doing it since centuries. At a time when
India needs stable government under able leadership, Kejriwal’s agenda seems to
be keeping Congress relevant by cutting anti Congress votes. I always remember
one Sanskrit proverb “अतिविनयम धूर्त लक्षणम्-Extra Humility is Sign of a Thug” but never
fully understood its meaning till I saw Kejriwal & Yogendra Yadav speaking
on various issues. Just watch them how easily Kejriwal’s travels in charted
plane & calls it necessity & welfare of Aam Admi. Just hear how easily
he & AAP switch from “में तो छोटा आदमी हूँ मेरी क्या औकात है”
to Kejriwal is Ex CM & everyone should give him that respect &
privilege. Kejriwal made impossible promises with impossible deadlines
& couldn’t deliver inspite of having a good chance. His real intention
feels to be of a spoiler who can be helpful to Congress by creating fractured
mandate but Indian democracy at this stage needs an experience person with
proven track record. In my view India doesn’t need Kejriwal type self-confessed
anarchist in 2014 election who is just adding nuisance value. I know a country
which can make best use of his & his comrade’s Goebbels type propaganda
& contradictory lying skills-North Korea. Kejriwal & AAP expertise will
have their best use under Kim in North Korea. Kejriwal please think about my
suggestion seriously & spare my country of your drama.
