Kejriwal seems to be keeping his
words
Arvind Kejriwal has proved that he means business by
lodging an FIR against former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in connection with
a street light project that was implemented ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth
Games.
The Delhi Police are not under the control of the Aam
Aadmi Party government, and Kejriwal therefore used his government’s own arm,
the Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch, which is staffed by personnel on deputation
from the Delhi Police, to register the case under the Prevention of Corruption
Act and the Indian Penal Code.
The AAP had recently targeted top politicians,
including Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, P. Chidambaram, and Kapil Sibal,
branding them all as corrupt. How
far the corruption case against Ms. Dikshit would go is not very clear.
The AAP deserves to be congratulated for keeping its
promise of trying to eradicate corruption from the soil of India but it should
take care to see that it considers power not just as an instrument to eradicate
corruption but also a means to provide perfect governance. The Kejriwal
government should use power in Delhi not only to enhance its national image as
an anti-corruption crusader but also to display its skills in governance.
Indian democracy is badly in need of good leadership
skill. There exists in India corruption, lack of accountability, the need to address
problem of rural India and common man of India etc. even after six decades of
independence of India.
Corruption is destroying India. Christine Lagarde,
MD of International Monetary Fund (IMF) had said, "In India, the net worth
of the billionaire community increased twelve-fold in 15 years, enough to
eliminate absolute poverty in this country twice over. Put simply, a severely
skewed income distribution harms the pace and sustainability of growth over the
longer term. ... It leads to an economy of exclusion, and a wasteland of discarded
potential ... it can tear the precious fabric that holds our society together."
Under such circumstance, it
is great to see the AAP seeming hell bent on hanging the rules of the game of
Politics. It is unimaginable for any party except AAP to go against the Party,
with whose support they are running the Government. It is clear that AAP is determined not to
engage in any political compromises in return for an extended lease in power.
You can call it Anarchist,
Unconventional or even Madness; but the truth is that Politics of this kind is
the need of the hour.
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