AAP ki kahani: View from afar
The great Indian poll tamasha has begun. A pseudo messiah of the masses shunning all responsibility and almost as if throwing a fit or tantrum walked out on the mandate he received. The political oppositions have quickly come out with brickbats and hammered the opportunist regime. But my question is, and looking from afar, I responsibly raise this doubt, was this, a change we were seeking?
India, has been marred by political inefficiency, for quite a few years now, the coalition system that has come to be, is one of the prominent reasons. Rhetorical to say the corrupt executives, quagmire legislative and a lethargic and tardy judiciary is inept at providing solutions to the people at large. The dynasty politics and a culture of nepotism, needs to be shown the door, but what is there to replace it?
The AAP rose to provide the people the answer to their woes.
What AAP cleverly marketed is a product that is very scarcely available, honesty, they sold the product to the masses, without ever owning an ounce of it. Now, they continue to rouse and create a rubble trying to exploit the demand that they have created.
Only to make India seem like the distraught middle east from afar, and throwing the country down the deep end where you have a demand but no supply.
A much needed cultural revolution, some may celebrate it as, but to the discerning eye, it is a blunder to treat lightly – neither the demand nor the marketing.
When, Kejriwal’s Aam Admi Party (AAP) aligned with the Congress Party in the post poll Delhi Assembly arithmetic, many raised an eyebrow. The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) yelled its lungs out saying that AAP is a crony face put up by the Congress to counter the Modi wave. AAP saddled on a high horse of morality blamed the media for targeting it when they didn’t form the government and then again when it did. An elaborate window dressing was done in the name of taking public opinion, into account, and then deciding to form the government.
The discerning watched from the sidelines, for the AAP dharma (read playing to the gallery) to pan out. Kejriwal made his intentions clear the day he resigned as Delhi Chief Minister, he is chasing bigger targets. AAP launched its national campaign, to fight for the Lok Sabha elections.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley rebuked AAP as the "worst ever state government that Delhi has ever witnessed has resigned." Calling AAP "a government without agenda and ideology", he also added that "the nightmare is finally over."
While many read the same political situation as, Congress and BJP uniting to oust Kejriwal, and his AAP. The spin doctors were at play, to give the whole resigning of the youngest Delhi CM after running a sop-py 49days in governance, as an act of martyrdom.
The inexperienced (by their own admittance) AAP, were highly incapable of running the show, for 49 days, Delhi politics was a prime time soap opera on governance counts.
At the time of quitting, was he incapable of running the government, or was it a trick move to relay a stronger footing for the Lok Sabha elections.
Kejriwal, often tweets of the A-listers, the media, businessman, social workers who are all joining the bandwagon, as a matter of pride, but isn’t that, ironically pushing the common man back a few rows again?
The problem with taking a stance, on AAP is that you are constantly pitting yourself against the mass culture of consumption. AAP has a populist wave going for them. The people are tired of the usual Congress and BJP and AAP is the new ‘Do the Due’ flavour in the country.
What disturbs me is the whole image of India’s distraught political scenario leading to something similar to the spring uprising with all aspects of governance and order being blown apart. It is cynical, but it is the extremes that Kejriwal’s home brew version of grassroots politics or as he calls it ‘mohalla’ (neighbourhood) politics has shown signs of.
People in India have found the way around almost all laws and established procedures. There are agents dealing/mediating with most government machinery. The famous ‘jugaad’ (quick-fix) is a step 101 at the end of the check list for any formality.
Is Kejriwal that quick fix, or is he plainly an anarchist that we deserve? Will Modi or Rahul Gandhi be the leader for the coming decade that we need? Do these faces have our trust? Do we really need a dictator to lead us into the new growth cycle?
Or is it that moment that when the things have given way, the water has gone over the bridge and we need to dismantle and analyse each aspect of the Indian democracy to allow for a better resolution of public issues?
The great Indian poll tamasha has begun. A pseudo messiah of the masses shunning all responsibility and almost as if throwing a fit or tantrum walked out on the mandate he received. The political oppositions have quickly come out with brickbats and hammered the opportunist regime. But my question...
The great Indian poll tamasha has begun. A pseudo messiah of the masses shunning all responsibility and almost as if throwing a fit or tantrum walked out on the mandate he received. The political oppositions have quickly come out with brickbats and hammered the opportunist regime. But my question is, and looking from afar, I responsibly raise this doubt, was this, a change we were seeking?
India, has been marred by political inefficiency, for quite a few years now, the coalition system that has come to be, is one of the prominent reasons. Rhetorical to say the corrupt executives, quagmire legislative and a lethargic and tardy judiciary is inept at providing solutions to the people at large. The dynasty politics and a culture of nepotism, needs to be shown the door, but what is there to replace it?
The AAP rose to provide the people the answer to their woes.
What AAP cleverly marketed is a product that is very scarcely available, honesty, they sold the product to the masses, without ever owning an ounce of it. Now, they continue to rouse and create a rubble trying to exploit the demand that they have created.
Only to make India seem like the distraught middle east from afar, and throwing the country down the deep end where you have a demand but no supply.
A much needed cultural revolution, some may celebrate it as, but to the discerning eye, it is a blunder to treat lightly – neither the demand nor the marketing.
When, Kejriwal’s Aam Admi Party (AAP) aligned with the Congress Party in the post poll Delhi Assembly arithmetic, many raised an eyebrow. The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) yelled its lungs out saying that AAP is a crony face put up by the Congress to counter the Modi wave. AAP saddled on a high horse of morality blamed the media for targeting it when they didn’t form the government and then again when it did. An elaborate window dressing was done in the name of taking public opinion, into account, and then deciding to form the government.
The discerning watched from the sidelines, for the AAP dharma (read playing to the gallery) to pan out. Kejriwal made his intentions clear the day he resigned as Delhi Chief Minister, he is chasing bigger targets. AAP launched its national campaign, to fight for the Lok Sabha elections.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley rebuked AAP as the "worst ever state government that Delhi has ever witnessed has resigned." Calling AAP "a government without agenda and ideology", he also added that "the nightmare is finally over."
While many read the same political situation as, Congress and BJP uniting to oust Kejriwal, and his AAP. The spin doctors were at play, to give the whole resigning of the youngest Delhi CM after running a sop-py 49days in governance, as an act of martyrdom.
The inexperienced (by their own admittance) AAP, were highly incapable of running the show, for 49 days, Delhi politics was a prime time soap opera on governance counts.
At the time of quitting, was he incapable of running the government, or was it a trick move to relay a stronger footing for the Lok Sabha elections.
Kejriwal, often tweets of the A-listers, the media, businessman, social workers who are all joining the bandwagon, as a matter of pride, but isn’t that, ironically pushing the common man back a few rows again?
The problem with taking a stance, on AAP is that you are constantly pitting yourself against the mass culture of consumption. AAP has a populist wave going for them. The people are tired of the usual Congress and BJP and AAP is the new ‘Do the Due’ flavour in the country.
What disturbs me is the whole image of India’s distraught political scenario leading to something similar to the spring uprising with all aspects of governance and order being blown apart. It is cynical, but it is the extremes that Kejriwal’s home brew version of grassroots politics or as he calls it ‘mohalla’ (neighbourhood) politics has shown signs of.
People in India have found the way around almost all laws and established procedures. There are agents dealing/mediating with most government machinery. The famous ‘jugaad’ (quick-fix) is a step 101 at the end of the check list for any formality.
Is Kejriwal that quick fix, or is he plainly an anarchist that we deserve? Will Modi or Rahul Gandhi be the leader for the coming decade that we need? Do these faces have our trust? Do we really need a dictator to lead us into the new growth cycle?
Or is it that moment that when the things have given way, the water has gone over the bridge and we need to dismantle and analyse each aspect of the Indian democracy to allow for a better resolution of public issues?
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