The great Delhi Soap AAPera

With 49 days of full-on political melodrama, Aam aadmi party would have easily raked in the highest TRPs if it would have been a soap opera in place of a ruling party in the government. The attention seeking strategies of ‘Mango Man’ Arvind Kejriwal worked wonders for the party before elections but the same ‘saas-bahu’ style of emotionally egoistic working did not at all suit to a Chief Minister of the state . Kejriwal’s stepping down is being analyzed as a very well thought out decision which was pre-planned even before he took the oath as CM. As I have mentioned in my earlier article, he surely is man with gigantic ambitions and he may well prove to be a smarter man than we have given him credit for.

His resignation as CM, after loitering around with government for more than one and a half month may seem like a defeat to us, but we are a nation with the shortest possible memory. With national election round the corner, all his heroic speeches & dharnas will again project him as our great knight in the shining armor. Kejriwal was not all willing to rule Delhi in the first place but circumstances forced him to wear the crown full of thorns. His only mistake was to take the referendum route in deciding whether he should form the government or not. Against his expectations, people said yes to him. Unwillingly he accepted the mandate but in the process, has bruised his own image.

Nevertheless, it may also prove to be one ace in his pack of cards as he & his party members had full access to all the documents & files in the government, which they can jolly well use later on to expose the congress or BJP (which runs 3 municipal corporations in Delhi). The political jingoism shown by AAP in these 49 days has clearly gained them the much required media attention and focus on the news channels. Without the constraints of office, they can fight ferociously on the streets and gather masses along with them.

The accusations leveled against Ambani brothers and the FIR against Mukesh Ambani was a daring step taken by AAP. Some ministers were also named in the FIR.

I don’t know how the theatrics adopted by Kejriwal will help him in the long run, but I seriously doubt his intentions now. If he did not have the strength to take on the political system face to face, why did he choose to enter politics? Once he opted for the same, he stated that the system can’t be changed without getting into it. Now what has triggered this action of exiting the system if he was so hell bent to change it? The lack of consistency in his approach creates a large cloud of confusion in my mind. He is no different from other corrupt politicians if he did it all with true clarity in his mind and the intention of playing with the nation’s emotion. His long term strategy of entering Lok Sabha by exiting as Chief Minister may also spoil his career in the same way as it happened with Anna Hazare’s ‘India against Corruption’ movement.  

Are we surrounded by a bunch of self-centric politicians who care the least about our nation? On one hand is a good-for-nothing Rahul gandhi who is as intelligent as Rabri Devi. On the other hand, we have got Narendra Modi who seems to be a better option to me but the blot of 2002 riots will never earn him muslim votes. Arvind Kejriwal’s dramatic style of politics does not look sustainable for very long time and I personally feel that he will go on to ruin his own career irrespective of how good or bad his intentions will be.

The bottom line is that the basic issues like corruption, inflation, poverty, bursting population, education and many more will only gather attention in rally speeches but nothing material will be done to resolve them. The elite class will remain least bothered by anything and they will keep themselves occupied in never ending social parties. The average middle class will keep on striving hard to earn their so called high standard of living while being a little disturbed about the above issues. The poor class will remain the most affected and harmed but they will have a minimum control over everything while fighting hard to earn two meals a day.