What we are witnessing in Delhi today is historic – for the first time since Independence a legitimate political party has refused to play by the rules that all political parties in India have battened on for sixty-five years; for the first time a State Government has taken on the Central Government at its own doorstep; for the first time a Chief Minister and his entire Cabinet are sitting in protest in their own capital; for the first time their own police force is ranged against them in their thousands.
The immediate reason for this may be the demand for the suspension of five police officials, but the actual reason is more basic, and fundamental to any democracy — accountability of the rulers to the ruled.
The rulers are not just the politicians and the bureaucrats – they are also the larger constituency that benefits from the present status quo: the industrialists, the TV and news organisations, the “cognoscenti”, the “glitterati”, the South Delhi socialites, the “intelligentsia” that makes a nice living by appearing nightly on TV panel discussions: in short, all those who are comfortable with the status quo.
They have, with the assistance of disgruntled elements like Kiran Bedi and Captain Gopinath, unleashed a veritable barrage of abuse and condemnation against Kejriwal and his party over the last week, terming him a Dictator, Anarchist, Chief Protestor, Law-breaker and so on.
It is because they feel genuinely threatened by the forces that the AAP has unleashed, the ethical standards that it has prescribed and demonstrated, the personal examples that its leaders have shown. Because they know that if these paradigms become the norm of a new India then the sand castles that these privileged reside in shall come crumbling down in no time.
And so they accuse Kejriwal of not following prescribed conventions, protocol or procedure and thus encouraging anarchy. Let us look at just three of these alleged transgressions:
1. Law Minister Somnath Bharti asking for a meeting of judicial officers of Delhi. What is improper about this? Isn’t the judiciary a part of the government – funded, staffed, appointed by the state.
Yes, it is operationally independent of the government (as it should be) but it is certainly not a holy cow whose performance cannot be questioned, or monitored, by the people of this country through their elected representatives.
The judiciary is meant to serve the people, just as the bureaucracy is, and it cannot have internal accountability only. An elected government has to have the right to review its performance, especially given the pathetic state of the disposal of cases in courts.
In my view Mr. Bharti was within his rights to take a meeting of judicial officers to assess the shortcomings of the system (which is the first step to removing these shortcomings). Yes, he could have routed the request through the High Court, but this was a trivial error and certainly not the grievous violation that the media made it out to be.
To the contrary, the Law Minister should be lauded for his initiative in seeking to address the issue instead of washing his hands of it as ALL LAW MINISTERS OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE DONE SO FAR, as if the collapse of the judicial redressal system was no concern of the government!
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2. Subsidies on water and power to small consumers in Delhi (something for which Kejriwal has been contemptuously branded a populist). Really?
The Central Government dishes out more than 160000 crores worth of subsidy every year on just three schemes (Mid-day Meals, MNREGA and Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan). Just about every state gives subsidies on water and power.
Here’s something Mr. Arnab Goswami and his kind should consider: the Golf Club in New Delhi which has about 4000 privileged members (all of whom are now arraigned against Kejriwal) has been given 250 acres of the most expensive real estate in the country worth 60000 crores for a paltry lease of about Rs. 15 lakhs per annum.
The annual return on Rs. 60000 crores should be at the very least Rs. 6000 crores: in effect, what this means is that every member of the Golf Club is being given a subsidy of Rs. 1.50 crores every year! The same is the case with the Gymkhana Club, another watering hole for the rich, the famous, and the now scared.
According to the latest report of the RBI, the total non-performing assets (NPA) of the Banks in India is more than Rs. 1.60 lakh crores.
NPA is just a euphemism for what the Vijay Mallyas and the Captain Gopinaths of the world owe to the aam aadmi (and refuse to pay) while flying all over the world in their private jets and pontificating in TV studios on the correct form of governance. Is it “populism” if indulged in by Kejriwal, and “entitlement” and “economic surge” when practiced by others ?
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3. Somnath Bharti’s (Kejriwal’s Law Minister) mid-night visit to Khirkee village has generated so much misinformation, ignorance of the law, reverse racism and hypocritical harangues that it is sickening.
Shorne of all this, what does the entire incident amount to? Merely this: a Minister, in response to complaints by residents (which are on record, as is the police inaction on them for months) of a locality personally visits the spot and asks the police to take immediate action by raiding the building where illegal activities are taking place.
The police refuse and insult the Minister. This is the essence of the matter.
All the rest – search warrants, lack of female police, racism, urinating in public, cavity search(!) [the latest addition to the shrinking vocabulary of Ms. Meenakshi Lekhi] etc.- are red herrings and a smoke screen which no doubt the judicial Inquiry Commission shall see through.
How was the Minister wrong in asking the police to take action? Is it a Minister’s job to simply sit in an air-conditioned office and write on files? (a question which Kejriwal has asked and to which we are still waiting for an enlightened response from Ms. Barkha Dutt and gang).
Does the police require a search warrant to enter a place where they have reason to believe that illegal activities are going on? Really, Mr. Salve?
If so, then how do you explain their barging into the house in the Batla House encounter and shooting three people, WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT? Or their constant nocturnal forays into the poor whore-houses of GB Road whenever they are short of spending money?
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No, sir, the opposition to Kejriwal from the BJP and the Congress, from the Arnab Goswamis, Rajdeep Sardesais, the Barkha Dutts, the Kiran Bedis, from the Editors of English dailies, from the captains of industry, from the Single Malts and Bloody Marys of Gymkhana and Golf Clubs, does not stem from any illegality or impropriety on his part, or from any ideological differences between them.
It stems from their complete and total failure to comprehend what Kejriwal is and what he stands for. It stems also from the deep social divide between the upper crust of society( who are happy with the status quo where their money, power and contacts can ensure them a comfortable life) and the masses below them who have to daily bear the brunt of the system inspired corruption, harassment, inconvenience and indignity that the present dispensation guarantees them.
This (hitherto unacknowledged and invisible) divide becomes clear when we compare the editorial slants of the English and Hindi channels in the coverage of the ongoing protests: the former are virulently anti AAP and only pop up panelists who support that view, while the latter appear to be more understanding of what AAP is trying to do.
Those who are denouncing Kejriwal for being an autocrat, anarchist, activist and for protesting at Raisina Road are missing the most obvious point of his movement – THAT KEJRIWAL WILL NOT PLAY BY THEIR RULES ANY MORE.
As they say in Las Vegas – you can’t beat the house, because the dice are loaded against you. Everyone wants him to play with their set of dice which they mysteriously call the Constitution and the CRPC!) but Kejriwal wants to play with his own dice, hence the confrontation.
They want him to pass a joint resolution of the Assembly for bringing the police under the Delhi govt.-he’s smart enough to see that the resolution will be thrown into the same waste paper basket where presumably the Ordinance on protecting convicted MPs was consigned by Rahul Gandhi.
They want him to be a good boy and take his dharna to Jantar Mantar where all civilised protests begin and inevitably end, while the govt. of the day can get on with its gerrymandering uninterrupted-he knows that unless he disrupts the comfortable existence of the bourgeois he may as well relieve himself in the Yamuna for all the difference he will make.
They want him to sit in the Secretariat and be guided by his bureaucrats and lose all touch with reality- he won’t fall for this Pavlovian routine. They desperately want him to become one of them, red light, siren, gun-toting commandos, Lutyen’s bungalow and all- he knows that if he falls for this he loses his USP and becomes just an intern in this hoary club of gnarled sinners.
They want him to follow the script co-authored by all the political parties of the day, not one excluded, because this script contains an agreed-upon plot, wherein politicians make noises but don’t act against each other, wherein corruption is just a sound-bite, where dynastic succession is a silently accepted sine qua non, where no one is interested in finding out whether the hundreds of proved Swiss bank accounts contain anything other than Swiss chocolates – Kejriwal, however, wants to write his own script with substantial inputs from the aam aadmi, not from the Ambanis or the Radias or the Shobhna Bhartias.
They want him to talk about corruption but not do anything about it, something Manish Tewari’s poetic flair would term “willing to wound but afraid to strike”, an attitude as old as Chanakya and Kautilya which offers all of us a catharsis via the good offices of Arnab Goswami and little else- but Kejriwal is no respecter of Machiavelli or Chanakya, his vocabulary is limited because he can only call a spade a spade, he is colour blind because he can only see in black and white (the shades of greys can be left for the likes of Manu Singhvi), and therefore he insists on striking, not just talking.
Is there any cause for surprise, therefore, at why the present dispensation, both in and out of government, is rattled by this five foot four inch “insect” from Ghaziabad? He is neither fish nor fowl, he defies understanding.
The establishment has made the supreme mistake of trying to counter him by quoting the rules of the game (loaded in the former’s favour, naturally!) they are past masters of- but Kejriwal has changed the rules, and now they don’t know how to control him or neutralise him.
For the time being only Kejriwal knows the new rules, and he is springing them on the carpet baggers one by one, catching them by surprise all the time.
Forget the English TV channels-they rarely get anything right. Forget the Manish Tewaris, the Kiran Bedis, the FICCI spokespersons, the Minakshi Lekhis- they are either scared witless or rank opportunists. What they all do have in common, however, is that they have failed to see how the common man-the aam aadmi-are gathering behind this dimunitive man with the perpetual cough.
The sincerity, integrity and commitment of this man is phenomenal, his capacity to harness the anger and frustration of the people is limitless. His defiance of accepted conventions and interpretations is not anarchy – it is nothing short of a revolution. When the people have had enough of injustice, callousness and indignity, they will not play by the rules of the rulers-they will make new rules.
The French Revolution would not have happened if the existing rules had been followed. Tehrir Square would not have happened if everyone swore by the old rules. Changing the rules, Mr. Home Minister, is not anarchy – it is the beginning of a people’s revolution.
The sooner we realise this the less pain in the transition, the less violence. No matter how the stand-off in Delhi ends – capitulation by the Home Minister and the Police, withdrawal of support by the Congress, imposition of President’s Rule, police violence on the protesters and their eviction – one thing is certain: Kejriwal is going nowhere.
He, and his paradigms, are here to stay and haunt our rulers. With his uncanny understanding of the pulse of the people he has re-written the rules of politics and governance.
There are now only two options Kejriwal has left the ruling class – either they change, or the people will change them.
| The author retired from the IAS in December 2010. A keen environmentalist and trekker he has published a book on high altitude trekking in the Himachal Himalayas: THE TRAILS LESS TRAVELLED.
His second book- SPECTRE OF CHOOR DHAR is a collection of short stories based in Himachal and was published in July 2019. His third book was released in August 2020: POLYTICKS, DEMOCKRAZY AND MUMBO JUMBO is a compilation of satirical and humorous articles on the state of our nation. His fourth book was published on 6th July 2021. Titled INDIA: THE WASTED YEARS , the book is a chronicle of missed opportunities in the last nine years. Shukla’s fifth book – THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER’S DOG AND OTHER COLLEAGUES- was released on 12th September 2023. It portrays the lighter side of life in the IAS and in Himachal. He writes for various publications and websites on the environment, governance and social issues. He divides his time between Delhi and his cottage in a small village above Shimla. He blogs at http://avayshukla.blogspot.in/ |
This is what ordinaory people feel form heart. Nice article.
I don’t know if I agree with the justification violation of human rights in a warrant-less search, no matter what precedent is used. Today its foreigners suspected of criminality, tomorrow it could be an AAP dissident or the common man ?
The solution to judicial accountability is not to ride roughshod over the principles of separation of responsibilities laid down in the constitution . And if an empowered elected government choses to solve problems in this manner – what message to citizens ?
DEAR INDIANS,
I&B Minister Sh.Manish Tiwari had very intelligently,pointed-out in parliament,the short-comings of the formation of the CBI,much before the embarrassing High Court judgement.
He has also pointed out,that we are following the West Minister Abbey System of the British, even today under which:-
1.People are,”LOYAL SUBJECTS OF HER ROYAL MAJESTY.” Not free citizens of a Republic.
2.Subjects,swear loyalty to,”HER ROYAL MAJESTY, NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION.”
3.If any Subject of the British Empire,says,”DYNASTIC RULE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED”,he,she or it,can be subject to LIFE IMPRISONMENT.”
SWARAJ IS OUR BIRTH RIGHT ! We must have PURAN SWARAJ,without any further delay. We have already delayed BEYOND DANGER POINT!
THE DELHI CM is facing FIR from Delhi police. The powers are in the hands of the powers,controlling the HOME MINISTER!
What greater misuse can there be of our Constitution,than having a Prime Minister who is not ‘Prime’ ?
A PRADHAN MANTRI, WHO IS NOT PRADHAN ?
WHERE THERE IS RESPONSIBILITY THERE IS NO POWER !
WHERE THERE IS POWER,THERE IS NO RESPONSIBILITY!
How can we allow this gravest danger to ourselves and our BHARAT MATA,even for a moment?
WE MUST GHAROW OUR SELECTED REPRESENTATIVES,UNTIL THEY REMOVE THIS DANGER,PROVIDE SWARAJ AND UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION IN LETTER & SPIRIT.
From Todays freedom fighters. BHARAT MATA KI JAI !
yes we the Indians must thankful and support MR KEJRIWAL to proceed ahead his methodology to clean up the bad and corrupt politics, administration, police first. let the poor and who are living with difficulties renounce for further 10 years if it is required to come up at a platform where we can expect that now every Indian is living in open air with basic rights and mutual prosperity.
it has become most necessary even than breathing, water and food.
this is number two revolution of INDIA for the real freedom.
thanks
I can understand WHY Arnab and Barka Dutt and alike are singing to the tunes of Congress and BJP.
While Congress stand badly exposed for all curruption and complete LOOT of this nation BJP is loosing ground for most Indians know that BJP is “just other side of same coin”.
Now we all have hopes from Aam Aadmi Party.
We all Aam Admi’s should standup for this cause and save our nation else it will be too late.
Jai HO.
The Protest/dharna was about prevailing Anarchy within Congress led UPA Government. All Constituents/Ministers are lording over their own fiefdom’s tossing aside the LAW of the land & even amending it to suit to meet their ends.
Excellent work Sir! I feel very frustrated to see some paid jokers (media) are making fool of entire public by putting wrong picture of AAP. Unfortunately very few of us can understand that the Media is highly paid by other political parties.
Please keep doing such fair work of pen and we promise to spread it to thousands of people.
Its in the interest of all Indian muslims to support AAP. This is the only party which is not communal and promising politics of inclusive development. I am sure none of my fellow Muslim brothers would really be interested in reservations or subsidy for Muslims. Also we don’t want Shinde to write to all state’s to treat Muslims differently. All we want is fair system that can provide equal opportunity to all Indians alike irrespective of their religion.
AAP seems to be a party which does not want to mix religion with politics. If this happens, India would start moving towards “One India”
An absolute honest and clean article, the media is the worst enemy of the state at the moment. They don’t like giving news anymore they believe in a show to attract TRP. Here is a man who is trying to give us a clean state which we as citizens deserve. Let us at least give him a chance, and not crucify him.
i think the consciousness shift has started and all traditional ways of doing stuff is changing, challenged, media was never fair, though personally I dont subscribe to what Bharti did, but then what do you do when every single system is being challenged, thats what shift is all about, there is no getting away
I partially agree with this article….it was ‘anarchy’ but the change is need of the hours. Kejriwal may have taken valid points but intention was not healthy. well administrator can not be a agitator. i feel so….
Indeed the article is well written. Referring to point 2. Subsidies have been provided, but the segment it should cater to is not reaping the benefits . About Somnath Bharti’s midnight raid, great he took the initiative and did a midnight raid, but the way he acted with the women was clear violation of human rights.He acted above law. Arvind kejriwal is just feeding the ego of his minister by supporting his improbable action. This showcases clear arrogance.for them what they do is right and they are making a fool of the aam admi.Duing the dharna to gain public sympathy! Why should the police just simply agree to what a minister says? Cause he’s a minister? play of power! I don’t understand why are the policeman facing an inquiry while Bharti is scott free. If this is how the youth wants the state to be governed, I am sure, the growth of this state will remain stagnant or deteriote. I believe with great power comes greater responsibility. Arvind Kejriwal should stop doing dharnas as a fodder for his mantri’s ego and better sit in his office and come up with better GOVERNING SOLUTIONS.
Excellent article n very well laid out. It’s no wonder both the established national parties are after this man. He has managed to give the man on this streets a way to vent out their frustration with the established political system, rather than simply sulking about it. No wonder he manages to connect with the masses in a way that the other two biggies can only dream of. This is surely a taste of the change we deserve.. Enough is enough.
Avaya shukla’s views are 100% correct becoz till today no one had guts to take actions against the traditional practice of congress,bjp and others?these parties think they know the interpretation of the constitution but the fact is that they have actually distorted the constitution.these parties have now joined hands together to defame Aap by joining hands with media.Instead of showing the true picture of khriki incident they are intentionally showing ,one sided picture.because of this,it is the common people of the khriki area who have to suffer as their grievances are not solved.It is the known fact the police force in entire India is corrupt.Today people join police to earn money by hook or crook because they get that job by paying money.A simple example of corruption:A driver of private vechile not authorised to ply passengers ,park their vechiles in the heart of town,ferry passengers to and fro,pay monthly money to police so that can do their work.as a result ,common people has to pay price ,as they get stuck in jams.So,I appeal to all common citizens of India,to stand in solidarity with Mr.kejriwal and support Aap to cleanse corruption from the system.
Newton struggled to prove the gravity, Archimedes struggled to prove the law of buoyancy , subrahmanyam chandrasekhar struggled to prove the theory of black hole and also Einstein struggled for 16 long years to prove the theory of relativity….This is all to break the status quo of understanding about the physical world around us. Imagine how difficult it is to break the status quo of the comfort being enjoyed since birth ? but the moral support required by Aravind ji for continuing his fight against this rotten society is immense…now the question is, how willfully strong are we to extend our moral support to him as long as we live ? and that is the key for ensuring better society at least for the future generations…Just like Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle for freedom is being enjoyed by all of us now…….
What a wonderful analysis, aptly worded. Treat to read. And from the person who has spent all his life in government.
HE IS TEACHING LESSON TO OUR CONGRESS & BJP POLTICIAN THAT THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THE PAIN OF INDIAN CITIZEN. I WITH YOU MR. KHERIWAL & IT CABNIT TEAM
Absolutely agree with each point that has ben treated so well. I really hope most people think like this and do not get influenced by media which is only a result of marketing gimmick.
Excellent article. It evokes a same relief that one might experience when they find a needle in a haystack.
Excellent sir. Nobody wrote about Kejriwal and his works so vividly, precisely, contextually and above all with love for a person who in his personal best capacity striving hard to suppress the ill practices which are harming the life of common man.
Police in delhi is to server the people. How many times a day police break the law and it is well recongnized by majority of polpulation in delhi. Just because an average MP has forgetten its responsiblity, it does not mean that AAP should be accused of anarchy for supporting its residence. Why could the police commissioner not get a warrant straight away and do the necessary. This is fight with the existing system and its very funny to see how Congress MP Sanjay NONONE is fasting in mumbai against his own government!!
Totally agree with Afoz khan..we all are alike..I mean regionalism or factionist views are no more a guarantee for vote banks except the unfortunate illiterate voters in rural areas..you can see that none of the regional parties ,be it Hindu or Muslim parties, have actually done good to the cause they were formed..I think education is the key to being a developed state..I still see lot of Muslims in metro cities who are not educated..and also surprised that there are few religious or political heads who talk about creating strong educational base for them..i have been trying to create a small base in whatever form I can at my personal level ( but it’s difficult) they also get involved in the mainstream education system, I know they will contribute far better to the society development..THE SUCCESS MANTRA FOR ALL MUST BE EDUCATION FOR ALL..RELIGION WAS MEANT TO PROVIDE US GROWTH IN ALL SPHERES OF LIFE BUT FOR FOR THE POLITICAL COLOUR GIVEN TO IT..SO LET EDUCATION BE THE NEW RELIGION FOR US ALL..WITH NO RELIGIOUS TONES TO IT..AAP SEEMS TO BE ANSWERING THIS QUIET PROPERLY INSOFAR..
Why did I join AAP?
By Prof. J.A.K. Tareen(Padma Shri)
Vice Chancellor B S A University, Chennai,
Former Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University and Pondicherry Central University
AAP I believe is a “born again” swaraj movement which our founding fathers launched against the colonial rule, and today it has risen again to fight against the feudalism of ruling political community who have apparently replaced the white masters. The common man continues to be at the mercy of ruling masters that includes the politicians, bureaucrats, all government and semi government officials, including an attendee at the door, who behaves like a master and public as their servants. The new swaraj movement of AAP is an antidote to check and extinguish the flames of rampant corruption, miss governance which has engulfed this nation for 60 years effecting the lives of both rich and the poor, business community and the corporate, teachers and students and the aspirations of this youth. The frustration of an Indian citizen is because of the inefficiency, indifference, lethargy, corruption, lack of accountability and the utter disrespect shown to common citizen by those in power (no matter what level). The political style of functioning of all parties is the same in India, though their ideologues may be different. Elections are won with money and muscle power and once elected, the style of working remain the same. Yes there are honest and self made people but they are not in majority.
Many of the policies, programmes and schemes of the governments are good but they fail for want of effective implementation, monitoring mechanisms, lethargy and absence of sensitivity and above all the accountability. There is hardly any budget allocation that has been fully utilized during any of the plan period. I would not find any reason why, the country could not bring down school dropout below 50-55%, why we could not maintain minimum standards in government schools. Why India could not produce a single world class university, when even small Asian countries have reached the global benchmark. It is not for want of resources, but for want of good governance, planning, policies which needs revolutionary shake up. This shake up is beyond the wisdom of just the bureaucracy, who does not think beyond the existing rule book and have no authority to change the rule book. This change cannot also come with a traditional mind set of the majority impermeable political class, who are reluctant to allow fresh and new ideas to penetrate the system.
It is also unfair to hold only the political class responsible for failure of delivery as the bureaucracy and governmental mechanisms contribute equally to the performance or non performance of any programme or scheme. The government servants, somehow enjoy an unwritten immunity and escape accountability.
Bribing has become part of the day to day life. It is hard in government office to get any job done without either greasing the palms or having contacts and influence. It is so difficult to prove with evidence this corruption in high offices, by bureaucrats, ministers, public service commissions, Vice Chancellors and even the office of the Governors, it is alleged.
Why don’t the politicians retire and why do they get the last retirement posting as Governors even at the age of 80? Why don’t the bureaucrats look for rehabilitation in government and semi government bodies after retirement?
Everything you look at is depressing. The countries growth and progress is of course due to global economy and liberalization, but it is also due to the demographic dividend of our population. I am not at all saying that successive governments have totally failed, but I am saying is they need to now change the present perception of ruler and the ruled, and the principles of Swaraj should take the centre stage of governance. The Government is not the master but a public servant and Janatha would and shall not to be treated as its subjects. Many decisions affecting the lives of people shall be made with public debates. The policy decisions shall be participatory with expert and academic groups and not unilateral by ministers and bureaucrats. The AAP movement is to change this perception among the political parties across board. No matter who rules, the principle is not to rule the Janatha but to work for the Janatha.
The AAP movement conveys to the political community in the country, that the power of the people is prime in democracy. This movement has made every political party to rethink its strategies in 2014 elections. People are watching if they will succeed in dropping all the corrupt legislators and MPs while allotting the tickets. Will they retire all those who have their stomachs full? Will they open new chapter with new blood and fresh air? Will they make it a rule of the people? If they do that, it is fine and that is what this AAP movement is all about. But unfortunately the common man has waited too long. The youth is impatient and will not wait for another 5 years of sufferings. The new hope ushered by AAP was irresistible and it at least has woken up the traditional parties which are intoxicated with power and stubborn attitudes. The AAP has sent a strong signal that people will reject any corrupt and criminal candidate from entering as law makers. AAP for the first time has opened the way for selfless, educated and the professionals of the country to think of entering the politics to be a part of the system. This is a new trend for the first time after independence that an educationist, a bureaucrat, a professional, a doctor, an entrepreneur, a corporate has felt like entering politics, which is otherwise so impenetrable with thick hard shells of hierarchical feudalism found in traditional parties. I do realize that the actions of Kejriwal though, termed as anarchist by the elitist’s media, I see it as a people’s revolution which does not happen through a rule book.
I joined this party to be a part of this inevitable revolution that is likely to sweep the country in 2014 elections and then on. Every well meaning Indian should join this historic movement.
First of all, I would like to congratulate Hillpost for carrying such a wonderful article.
A great conspiracy is going on to malign AAP and its ministers, as it is giving sleepless nights to both the parties. Politicians, Media, and the elite class are on one side, and AAP on the other.
One undue credit that Arvind Kejriwal deserves is that he has started a political discourse, which in true sense is about India first. Here is a man who not only talks good, but is highly committed to walk the talk. He is the first politician who has given everything he had (status, comfort, privilege) to genuinely work for the common man. Established political parties are failing to understand him as well as the mood of the public.
If India were to develop, we definitely need such people to come forward. For the first time, I’m seeing hope that something good is happening in India. More power to Arvind Kejriwal.
And I feel, as a responsible citizens it is our duty to make people aware about this political revolution. We deserve a better India.
Are bhai, koi hindi me bhi samajhayega ki ye ho kya raha hai ?
Finest article with whole perspective of clearing common man’s-aam aadmi-minds . If Delhi people still want cleansing of dirty
Politics and politicians , let them stand by co-aam aadmi Mr.Arvind Kejriwal and help him change the rules which are for the ruled and not vice versa.
My take on the article – it is not balanced. It is clearly the work of an ardent admirer who cannot pen any fault. Let us not kid ourselves, the fact is Mr kejriwal tried something spectacular to hog sympathy, but ended into a spectacle. The point that is overlooked is If he stood for principles he should not have agreed to form the Govt with the support of the people whose policies he criticized. the only concession that can be conceded is the values outlined are welcome, the method followed is the old politicians trick – hog the limelight and stay on top of the news.
Excellent analysis. Govt is of People and people can intervene rule which is a “revolution” itself.
Exactly the point. This man deserves respect. We are with you Mr. Kejriwal , keep up the good work. Beautifully written article sir.
Arvind Kejriwal’s two days dharna against Delhi police is a rare glaring example of courage. I call it a period of reawakening. It is similar to Gandhi’s “Quit India Movement of August, 1942” and “Namak Andolan”. This Dharna is , as I name it is , ‘CORRUPTION CLEAN COUNTRY”. HM Shinde got 13 constables suspended when part of his official resindece window was damaged by a mob staging dharna when he was in Russia, whereas he has refused to take action against the police officials involved in recent incidents in Delhi inclu ding rape, drug trafficking and a woman burning, till the enquiry, shows his way of supporting anarchy. HM Shinde must be having many skeletons in his cup board after recent remkarks of RK Singh for saving a Doud’s aid from police interrogation. On which Mr. Shinde including the PM are silent. It must be probed.
Can’t there be a public interest litigation for review of the Golf Club lease terms…