Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi about 15 days ago. It was a big day in the politics and democracy of India. I wasn’t really happy about the Aam Aadmi Party taking Congress support to form the government in Delhi. The day when the news broke that AAP will form the government in Delhi with Congress aid, I made a sad facebook post. Here’s the pic:
Yeah, call me a sadist, and heres
a comment by one of my high school teachers
And another friend of mine said:
Ofcouse I only had this to say:
And then the status died away..
and 5 days later Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the CM and he made quite a
decent speech that day.
I made a status:
I realized that I was missing
something and this congress alliance may not prove that damaging and AAP would
still be able to play a dominating role and provide the people of Delhi some
good governance.
The days that followed saw a lot
of changes and decisions like the transfer of DJB higher management, 700 liters
of free water per day and maybe a few more that I don’t remember. But all the
while and media, other political parties and sympathizers and supporters of the
NaMo Movement started posting pictures, excerpts and quotes of how Kejriwal and
the AAP were switching sides, changing tunes etc etc.. the 3 biggest things
that the people have found hardest to forget and forgive are:
2. Kejriwal won’t take VIP security or government facilities (car, house etc) – Well he did that
And the worst
3. Kejriwal swore on his children that there would be no support taken from BJP or Congress – Well, we all know what happened.
Now, ofcourse I’m writing this
post to well somewhat justify his statements, now these three have not risen
from different sources. The one reason is, he’s green, that’s it.
Being a.. well talkative person I
know that sometimes you go overboard, get carried away and say something of
paramount proportion when you don’t know the complete picture. Haven’t we all
seen people who are ‘confidently wrong’? That’s what happened here, it’s
practically impossible to have a CM walking the streets without security. I’m
not talking about the CM, the people would swarm the place and hurt one
another.. its so with any celebrity and he or any celebrity has no control over
it.. so this was an innocent ‘confidently wrong’ statement. How can he say
something and we take his word for something that isn’t in his control?
Speaking of the swearing on
children part, the same goes here, he was ‘confidently wrong’ because of his
innocence, as I said, he’s still a little green, now what do we do of an
innocent first timer? Do we show some consideration or we scrutinize and
criticize his every move? Expect him to be perfect from day 1? That’s just too
much expectation from us, the media and other politicians. Given time, maybe
he’ll learn his limitations and learn that every word is counted.
To be a little neutral here, I
really am concerned about the ‘370 pages of evidence against Shiela Dixit’
statement. Ofcouse, thinking realistically, there’s no such thing as
‘unconditional’ support. Lets leave it as that.
Finally, why did he enter
politics, contest and become CM? well, We must think of why AAP was formed in
the first place, there was no option left, right? No Lok Pal Bill would be
passed with all the Anshans and people were simple getting bored and eventually
fizz out.
This was a right decision, but
sadly, we have a perception that nothing can be changed or that people who get
down in the pit to clean also end up smelling like shit.. or people have no
hopes of ever having a clean political system. Maybe.. but the one line I
remember from The Shawshank Redumption is “No one can ever take away hope” So
I’m gonna hope, hope that change is possible, change will happen and I will do
my part. (by making blogs and fb posts? Sure why not)
