Carry on, Arvind Kejriwal!
The Aam Aadmi Party
should change the political system, however hard the political system might try
to change AAP. If the AAP is to
truly succeed, it would have to succeed on its own terms, without surrendering
its original ideals and crusading spirit.
Prashant Bhushan
and Yogendra Yadav, who were expelled from AAP have a lot of grievances against
Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal is the face of the party, its leader as well as its
most hard-working member. But there is a limit to which a leader can listen to
his followers. Bhushan and Yadav are trying to prove that Kejriwal can go to
any extent to have his say. According to them, he is a leader who wants to go
alone without anyone challenging his supremacy and that he likes to be in the
company of those people who do not have mass base, followers and intellectually
inferior to him. How can anyone say that Bhushan and Yadav are right? Is it
because they got kicked out of the party? Why both have been doing negative
campaigning for more than a year?
Kejriwal has a god
sent opportunity to provide alternative political platform for the vast
majority of Indians. It is his brainwork. You can’t expect him to clear
overnight the corruptions that have accumulated in our country since
Independence till now. Even if Kejriwal manages to clear half the dirt, that
would be the greatest thing ever done by any Indian so far.
As long as AK
delivers as Chief Minister of Delhi, free from corruption, mis-governance,
maladministration, nepotism etc his electoral victory will remain a political
success also.
Kejriwal and the
genuine members of AAP are out to change the system as a whole - no doubt a
near impossible task given India's complexities. As far as APP works on its
promises to Delhi people, and deliver good governance, there should not be an
issue. If majority decide each and everything, it may not be the right decision
always. If the "fascist" leader is wise enough, what is the problem?
AAP experiment got
the highest expectations of the people - especially in Delhi. All the subsequent
trouble for Kejiriwal has been hatched in wrong quarters without right thinking
- that too on behalf of the parties which are afraid of AAP's growth. It is
surprising that the media is giving unwarranted publicity to the developments
within AAP - as if this is the only issue and only party affair that is rocking
the nation. Just after the completion of LS election, how senior leaders of the
BJP were sidelined is still a green memory for those who have been watching the
politics.
AAP has come back
with a thumping majority in Delhi. This in itself talks of their calibre as
leaders. Differences of opinion, dissidents have always been part of a social
setup. You cannot agree to or please everyone. Some disgruntled members are
bound to be there. People will continue to come and go. But AAPs bijli, paani
has everyone hooked, the majority of lower income group and middle class.
Very rarely decent
people in public life can find a place to help shape ideology. Kejriwal,
despite his IIT background, has qualified for a rigorous service. His idea of
clean politics motivated many intellectuals who had lost all hopes of seeing this
happen in their life time. It was Kejriwal who gave them the hope.
Whatever the
immediate struggles and tribulations, the party seems to have a strong central
group, who would ultimately triumph in steadying the rocking ship, through
allowing Kejriwal to control the rudder. Now Kejrival seems to be just purging
AAP of unclean and corrupt people. Here is the dilemma: Governance of any
institution requires quick action otherwise the institution will fail. When
that isn't possible leaders are forced to take quick action which then smacks
of autocracy.
Kejriwal should
continue his good work for the people of Delhi without involving in useless
talks. Silence is golden during such times. Good luck to Kejriwal, his team and
his party which is first of its kind in Indian political history. Only time
will tell us all, how AAP will perform.
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