AAP: All Noise and No Substance

Today I want to ask what did the people of Delhi get and what has Arvind Kejriwal proved? Running havoc on streets, running anarchy and breaking the law and order situation by the CM and his gang of unruly hooligans! Is this the struggle of Aam Aadmi?

In an unprecedented dharna in the heart of the capital came to an abrupt end tonight after two police officers were sent on leave under a neat compromise with the Centre over his demand for suspension of five officials for alleged dereliction of duty.  Kejriwal was on a dharna demand for control over Delhi Police and how he chooses to take control? By taking on the street, sleeping on roads and causing inconvenience to the people of Delhi, stone pelting, and challenging to run havoc on republic day! Is this what a CM of a state suppose to do? Finally the standoff ends in under the compromise, the SHO of Malviya Nagar, who refused to raid an alleged drug and prostitution ring on the orders of Law Minister Somnath Bharti, and PCR van in-charge of Paharganj, where a Danish women was gangraped last week, were sent on leave, paving the way for an end to the confrontation with the Centre.

The theatrics and dharna have got them results until now, so a self-absorbed Aam Aadmi Party government can hardly be expected to give up that weapon. Who's to say if the everyday lives of the Aam Aadmi Party going to work by public transport are somehow less relevant to him than a group of residents who undertook a sting operation codenamed 'Black Beauty' and forcibly detained women who they believed were prostitutes and drug peddlers with scant regard for legal process? Both sets of Delhiites are Kejriwal's voters, aam aadmis, but then the former is simply not an evocative enough picture.

Today Arvind Kejriwal just stands exposed on what actually is running in his mind. Apart from the frequent U turns that he takes on his statements and the abusive language he himself uses there is another thing that comes out in open is that is greedy for power. An instant success in the elections has made him arrogant and intolerant to others opposing his views.

Out of the 3 weeks in power, and all that he managed is to give interviews and attract media attention and nothing substantial. At least going by his performance so far if you closely analyse AAP’s theatrics it’s very clear that he desperately wants to resign as CM and finding it tough to meet the high moral standards and promises that he made to the people. He needs a reason to resign and that he found in this act of staging a dharna where he wanted to seek control of the police under the Delhi Govt. He fully knew that this was not possible as it required a constitutional amendment and would require time. By this act he wanted to tell the people that he wants to work for the people but he has no control over police and the congress does not want it investigate corruption charges again former CM.
Even today Arvind claims that he has won! I don’t understand how? Just by sending the cops on leave? Where is Law minister’s resignation? What is even bad is that the Central Govt. bucked down to this arm twisting and asked the cops to go on a leave. What a pathetic way to give justice! Home minister has not only succumbed to this nautanki but also demoralized the police forces; also he gave AAP a nice tool to use just go on dharna cause anarchy and gets your ways mended. Instead of cordoning off the area of protest and cutting off the supplies of water and food and arresting the protestors he has sent in 4000 police men to guard them. All this protest has proved nothing but in one week of mayhem in Delhi, Kejriwal shattered his own image, doing all the things the average politician – whom he so despised and derided – would do. Neglecting the law, bullying, browbeating and threatening all his detractors, including the media, throwing the capital of India into chaos, abusing the home minister of the country and even threatening to disrupt the most visible event that projects India as a united, powerful nation.