Delhi doesn’t have a govt for a while. While
Presidential rule looks inevitable, the people of Delhi at least got to see the
drama and theatre of Arvind Kejriwal
and his AAP party members. To borrow from AAP’s new-found admirer, Rahul Gandhi, it has been “complete nonsense” for the last 3 days.
One loose cannon after another from AAP shooting nonsense. India Today carried an article on December 14 on the grand plans of
AK supposedly written by Shanti Bhushan (father of AAP member Prashant Bhushan)
but later pulled it when ShantiB denied he had written it. Funny, isn’t it? A news
outlet carries a full article and doesn’t know how it came through, who edited
it, who cleared it and how it got uploaded. Surely, someone must have written
it so who is India Today fooling? Here’s the article:
So everyone who suspected AK & Co.
are really meant to do a whack job against BJP and Narenda Modi found the
article confirm that suspicion. We will look at some of the contents in a bit.
The self-righteous gasbags of AAP decided on another gimmick. Instead of
showing courage to form a govt or deciding firmly to sit in the Opposition AK
shot off 18 questions to the
BJP and Congress. AK claimed both parties had assured them “unconditional’ support. That itself is
a bogus claim. The Congress promised them “unconditional” love but the BJP has
promised no such thing. The BJP only stated “issue based support” as they do in parliament with bills like FSB,
Lokpal etc. These theatrics help to fool the useful idiots in the media who
don’t even bother to check if the questions are really sensible or more
tomfoolery. Let’s examine the validity or relevance of these questions to any
cause or outcome of governance (a few samples; in blue):
1. The VIP culture should be
stopped in Delhi. No MLA, minister or Delhi official will use a red beacon on
their cars. Neither will they live in big bungalows nor take any special
security.
The SC has recently ruled that all
states should submit a list of VVIPs who can use the red beacon. In any case,
how does red beacon become a hurdle for implementing the manifesto of AAP? The
bungalows for residence are allotted by the govt itself. Now if AK wants, his
AAP party members may choose not to live in such bungalows but how in hell is
this measure going to result in any direct benefit to citizens? The very nature
of the question is nonsensical to say the least.
3. People will take decision
directly in 'mohalla sabhas’… in every locality and colony.
Why should anyone agree to this
stupidity? If AAP wants to make decisions based on these “sabhas” there is
nothing to stop them. But one hopes these people don’t forget legislation still
has to be done in the Assembly and not in Mohallas. So it’s for AAP to convince
the house on any legislation being worthy on merits. Why should anyone agree to
such a stupid demand? Even if the BJP stupidly supported this, does it have any
legal validity? No, but this is another way to fool people into believing
something that is frivolous.
6. Electricity meters should be
checked. 7. There is 220 litres of water available for every person
daily. Where is it?..
Why would anyone have a problem with
this either? You want to check meters go ahead and check. You want to audit
electricity companies, go ahead and do it. You want to find out where 220
litres water per individuals are hidden? What stops you from searching yourself
if you were to form the govt? The bigger problem is not 220, AK & Co. have
promised 700 litres per family they should be busy searching for 700.
11. It wants to give
infrastructural facilities like roads, electricity, water and basic facilities
to the ordinary trader.
This is laughable. I am sure both BJP
and Congress will object to such a stupid demand because both object to good
roads and facilities to ordinary traders. Is that what the AAP jokers want
everyone to believe? Or is that if AAP decides to build good roads, provide
electricity and water BJP is going to sit on a dharna to protest?
That is how the 18 stupid questions go. Check
all of them. None of them really have any point of conflict which any political
party would really object to; except maybe a stray couple. At least not in
principle and some of them cannot be agreed to without the finer details. So
what is the childish drama all about? The 2nd question in the list of 18 is
quite interestingly on the Jan Lokpal Bill. 2. Passing
of the Janlokpal Bill, the same version for which Anna Hazare held fasts.
This is another perversion and diversionary nonsense. Since Anna is not even
associated with AAP how is Anna’s JLP relevant to these people? But fine, you
demand what you want. So when the Congress and BJP have agreed to pass a JLP
Bill that even Anna has welcomed,
the AAP joker Kumar Vishwas calls those supporting it “gaddaars” (traitors). His comments were aired throughout Sunday by
Timesnow. So now he’s implying Anna is a gaddaar too and that unless Arvind Kejriwal
says yes it remains a Jokepal, is it?
No one can make a JLP except this bunch
of street goons who call everyone else corrupt, murderer, rapist and any name
they choose. AK and his team have now started to even ridicule Anna claiming he
may not have read the final draft of the bill or is being misled. I’m sorry! Anna is not being misled now; he was being
misled in 2011 when the fasting started. Now AK says fasting does not
achieve anything. AK’s first choice to lead the IAC movement wasn’t Anna at all.
Nora Chopra who writes a ‘Buzz’
column in the Sunday Guardian noted
on December 28, 2011 that AK first tried NR Narayanamurthy and APJ Abdul Kalam
who declined. Murthy threw him some loose change as donation and sent him on
his way. (The Sunday Guardian pic was carried on this blog earlier too but
their archive currently seems unavailable).
The final choice was Anna who agreed to
fast unto death for this bill. And now AK grandly states Anna is being misled. Anna
knows who was misled and so do people. In music parlance they call the AK act a
“one-hit” wonder. Once the JLP bill
is settled these guys won’t have much to scream about having proved that they
simply don’t have any idea of running a govt or at least don’t wish to. Anna
finally stated on Sunday, December 15 “I am not
concerned with what AAP has to say, AK should do what he wants. Truth will be
in front of people, I don’t want to say anything about him” (quoted on
Headlines Today). I wouldn’t be wrong in saying AK fooled Anna in the past and
now he is fooling all the people in Delhi and other places. It is easier to
keep fooling people than to tell them they were fooled. I guess some brilliant mind
did say that long before we learned.
So that brings us back to the aborted
article that appeared in India Today (the magazine refers to this stupidity as
an “ace”). Lately, people on Twitter
know how criminal these media houses are and can knock off articles any time
when it is inconvenient. People now keep copies and pics. If you missed the
article you can read it here.
To me, it doesn’t matter who wrote it. It
does matter what is written and if that reflects any credible analysis. It
bears out not only what has been written on this site before but many observers
have noted. Essentially, AK is doing a
whack job against BJP and Modi and this has been so since the day he called
Modi “corrupt” in July 2012. Since that day I had suspected this agitator is
nothing more than a proxy for some bigger forces. Let’s read a bit (excerpts in
blue):
“Kejriwal and
his party are the product of 'Anna' Hazare's movement, which erupted against
the Congress's colossal corruption and patronage to corruption. Later on,
however, the movement, which was essentially against the misdeeds of Manmohan
Singh's government, took a different turn and was made to look as if it were
against the BJP too on purpose, by some vested interests, with the active
support of Arvind Kejriwal. Once it was done, it confused the people and the
movement, which started with a bang, ended up slowly with a whimper…”.
This is what I tweeted too. The govt at the Centre was Congress, the Delhi
State govt was Congress. So what motivated AK & Co. to constantly make BJP
the bigger villain in the corruption issue? That the man even went on to call
Modi “corrupt” was certainly to score brownie points with his “bosses” and you
can figure who they are.
“So Kejriwal
defied Anna Hazare and formed a political outfit by the name of AAP, giving it
a colour of an anti-corruption unit against both the national parties, instead
of just opposed to the Congress against whom the movement was initiated in the
first place. He intentionally and mischievously raised the bogey of Gadkari's
corruption and bracketed him with the Congress party's known corrupt
politicians to show his 'secular' credentials. The BJP's name was sullied to
please a particular community. Otherwise the BJP was nowhere near power so
there was no question of them having been involved in corruption”. The
BJP was accused of some corruption which was mostly a media campaign but still is
nowhere close to the Himalayan corruption of Congress which actually started
Anna’s movement. The image, which has appeared before on this blog, is very
telling. All the black sheep are
accusing a giant that is a threat as the more corrupt one because a small part
of its skin is black. I don’t think anyone is missing the game being played out
by AK & Co. especially when they have announced they are now going to
contest all the LS seats in Gujarat. Nothing stops them contesting any
elections but the objective of targeting BJP and Modi in particular is not a
secret anymore. You have a fair idea of who the hit-job is for.
People are very observant now. The media
is a bunch of crooks that will not place statements and acts in context or
remind politicians of their past stances. People also see through masks that
people wear. The mother of all facts is that nobody expected AAP to win 28
seats, not even AK and his current mentor Yogendra Yadav. The stupid 18
questions are meant to cover up for their failures. People latch on to the most
important promises made by political parties. In AAP’s case there are 2
important promises: 1) 50% cut in electricity
charges and 2) 700 litres of water
per household every day. Clearly, it seems AK & Co. have no idea of how
they can deliver on this. If they had known they would come this close to
forming a govt they wouldn’t have made these undeliverable promises. That is
what is hurting them. Even the Lokpal bill doesn’t bother ordinary people that
much but the lure of 50% cut in electricity bills and good supply of water
does. This is where AAP failed. AK failed the people, he failed Anna and the
only one he is serving now is the Congress party’s agenda. These two pics tell
a story:
RahulG showed a lot of arrogance in
barging into a presser screaming “complete nonsense to be torn and thrown away”
about an ordinance. At other places he rolled up his sleeves and even lied,
tied Muslim youth to ISI. All that was in vain! People have seen Congress
corruption and misrule. The new friend Congress now has is AK and his AAP in
principle and in ideology. That’s the reason RahulG sees he can learn from
them. But there is something Arun
Jaitley rightly points out in his latest blog “Politics and arrogance’ (when RahulG and 3 sidekicks
announced the Lokpal bill to be passed): “Yesterday,
both the language, approach and the body language was different. After electoral wrap on the knuckles, the
mighty had fallen. The ‘game changer’
had been abandoned. They were now
looking for a conciliatory approach”. In his minor victory AK and all
his loose cannons have become like the earlier RahulG, arrogant and plenty of
loose talk. Maybe they have something to learn from the “new, improved” RahulG.
People don’t suffer loose cannons and
they are quite unforgiving of bogus promises.
