AAP Trilogy: Politics of Opportunism – General Election, 2014

Anything for Vote

Most of the experts still wondered about the Delhities being gullible but to their complete surprise the same Delhi people did outsmart AAP by voting for the unrealistic promises. In fact, its there way to say, well fulfill those promises now. Kejriwal was initially confused with the so called mandate but as they digested the election results little bit, the clueless-ness about the purpose of the mandate was clearly evident from their behavior. Media houses were actually embroiled in deep quandary, i.e not in a position to continue supporting Congress against popular public sentiments neither interested in promoting the rising sentiments in favor of BJP. Sooner than later AAP became the blue eyed boy of the entire print & electronics media with 24/7 coverage of all the developments including the nonsense ones. The Great India Nautanki Show hosted by Kejriwal, catered cheap entertainment to public across India. For a moment the impression was BJP’s all round performance in all the 4 states’ assembly election was minuscule against AAP’s near impressive 2nd position in Delhi assembly. Media’s grand design to wither out all hypes around BJP, past state election result, to protect Congress from a sure downfall before crucial national election, was partially successful.

 

Gimme a Tight Hug

People all across the country started joining this brand new political party as if the long lost relatives plunge into a person after the news of winning a lottery ticket just broke out. These socially oppressed and professionally suppressed people were actually looking for a platform to re-lunch their career. AAP was a relatively convenient option for these liberal looking bunch for quite obvious reason. Certainly, AAP found an army of photogenic debaters in news channels while strategically positioning itself as the primary rivals of the BJP, against the ground realty where Congress still held its forts. In the interest of Crown prince Rahul, Sonia wanted a dummy to fight BJP, so Congress could sail through easily. So, Congress adopted a 2 way policy, firstly to promote Brand Rahul with media Blitzkrieg and secondly keeping BJP engaged with AAP, secretly funded by them.

 

Always Hand in Gloves

 

BJP led by Modi was not sure of handling these bunch of mavericks with unsettling strategies unfolding with each passing days. In fact nobody was sure so they adopted the wait and watch policy to tackle the new political menace that recently out-shined Congress in national capital. Politics is a game of worst game-plans, Sonia Gandhi ensured, Shiela Dixit’s defeat in the hand of Kejriwal from a constituency of government employees, vowed never to debunk the ruling establishment. Off late the grand old lady had become a bone in the throat of congress central leadership who might be vying for an elevation at national level. So a humiliating defeat should fortify her political death in Delhi politics.

 

I Need Some Loyal Supporters

This is completely absurd to imagine that a fringe party with less than a 1% vote share could garner the kind of media fanfare it enjoyed in last few months. The same media was conspicuously silent about JP Narain from Hyderabad an honest retd. bureaucrat, a true crusader against all socio-political malice. Media even conveniently downplayed, the political grand standings of the most educated and honest chief minster of  the Indian state of Goa. No body really cared whether he opted out of govt Bungalow, rebuffed securities and above all, all the luxuries attached to his office. As soon as the media hype around AAP’s electoral success settled a bit, the responsibility of governance mounted serious pressure on the street agitators turned politician. They say, politics is a one way traffic, once in politics always in politics with no option to step back. This is a double trap situation for AAP, where the mandate is interestingly scattered among 3 parties publicly posturing against each other.

 

Who is Anna?

BJP played safe this time, with clear eye on the national election just a quarter away otherwise breaking a fringe group to arrange four lawmakers was not at all a big deal for this grand party of some ethics. Though they still practice relatively cleaner politics in the matter of handling dynasties, internal democracy or corruption. But the new group in town has no history, so while they can cause immense damage to the rivals, they themselves would always remain insulated against any charges. So BJP feared even if they manage to form a government in the national capital, this would give full opportunity to AAP to accelerate the decibel of their agitation to be loud enough for the whole country to hear, causing serious impact in the election year.

 

Bhaad me Jaye Delhi… Desh ko Bachana Hai…..

Within few days, AAP has now enough political wisdom to stay away from governance but only at their own risk. The agitators’ party have already hyped their electoral performance as mandate, so the constituents have challenged back to deliver governance. A deal was allegedly brokered to arrange support for AAP, but how could AAP take support from Congress to govern Delhi while their whole campaign was against them. So with the help of media they orchestrated, an entertaining fiction called Jan Sabha to gather public opinion on the same subject. All of sudden the recently decimated Congress became very powerful as a potential king maker, but the AAP-Congress rule in Delhi offered at least some happy moments to each of the top players. BJP got enough opportunity to sharpen its arsenals before general election and possible state re-election while exposing AAP’s collective in-experience in Delhi government. Congress was enjoying a bit of power even after a serious electoral drubbing, with the control to pull the govt any day may be when it suited best to their design after discrediting them publicly. Most importantly, may be as part of the deal, they guaranteed AAP’s complete silence on Congress misrule and corruption.

Special Bungalow for General Class….

 

For those who expected AAP to govern and complete at least a full tenure even in a city state like Delhi, they have to be really disappointed. These agitators does not have this sense of responsibility in their blood, the best they can do is barb charges of misrule against others and spend exchequers’ money with a mindless economy. Within a week, they proved it time and again and looked for opportunities to escape from the duty towards the voters. In fact, vote bank politics, is Indian National Congress’s reinvention of British’s game plan “Divide and Rule”, framed to appease a few at the peril of national interest adopted well into the manifestos of Kejriwal. After they tested the first blood in Delhi, they became political predators sensing a national slot within striking distance. Starting from minority appeasement to doling out freebies to a particular sub-section in the society, they did everything, this undone all their claims to be a pro-public party with difference. They defied every such thing that they originally stood for, the nation started to realize how they promised moons to the electorates. Kejriwal mingled with ill-famed Maulana Taqueer Rana, Imamas for Muslim votes bank. Their claim to stop VIP culture took a serious beating, when all AAP ministers opted for VIP SUVs, security and luxurious flats mocking the AAM ADMI with their cruel jokes.

 

Even in the ticket distribution, they even did not allocate a respected number seats to women candidates let alone minorities. All the cases against Shiela Dixit suddenly disappeared from their website, usually vocal Kejriwal became perpetually silent about Sonia Gandhi & co. Those who claimed all their decisions are made in full public eye in the Jana Sabhas all of sudden had closed door meetings with serious fall out, with Bineys, Sharmas publicly venting their anger. Scandals involving Rakhi Birla, Somnath Bharthi, Prasant Busana, Sazia Ilmi became talk of the town. The matter of Kejriwal’s government flat in the posh location at the exchequer’s cost does not go down well with even a staunch AAP supporters. Imagine, how this unemployed politician manages to pay few hundred thousand rupees rent a month. He should have thought of some other deserving person while unlawfully occupying the house, equally despicable the pretext, upcoming daughter’s exam. Well there a millions of parents waiting for their children’s exam, if everybody would cling to a public property, that would bring anarchy in this country.

 

Who said that we follow Gandhi….

The democratic Maoism yet to start, failed in governance the depleted public image forced the desperate AAP leaders to resign. One after the other Kejriwal started all sort of drama still being a CM with the governor and the home ministry enjoying the show. In the end, on the pretext of Janlokpal bill Kejriwal staged his infamous walk out from government after 48 days in power. This did not take much time for the public to understand how they were cheated in the broad daylight when on April fool’s day all the 90 days old subsidies came to an end. Kejriwal is rather concerned about his national ambition with a skull cap to lure Muslim vote banks. Well, in this little span of time, this party of preposterous people proved this, time and again that they are no different and equally worse while it comes to politics of opportunism, or even worst. Interestingly, non of the tools they used to acquire political limelight were by their side, be that Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev, Kiran Bedi or the Print & Electronics Media, or the public at large. AAP’s politcal fortune is waiting for a legendary fall with this general election of 2014, to decimate the public hope perpetually. If I look back at Arvind 3 years back, in 2011 hardly anybody knew this guy, and now hardly anybody knows where Anna Hazare is? What a parody, only time would teach a lesson to this impostor, who did not even spare the Republic day.

 

This is the end of AAP Trilogy. Please watch out for Why Modi is a bare necessity this time….

 

AAP full Series:

http://ibijay.blogspot.in/2014/01/aap-trilogy-phenomena-called-aap-begins.html

http://ibijay.blogspot.in/2014/01/aap-trilogy-first-blood-mission-delhi.html

 

AAP Trilogy: A Phenomena called “AAP Begins…

Not Really

A young IRS officer left his lucrative job in Income tax department and started an NGO for a change in the system. It’s almost a decade since he actually started on this mission even being on job. Then he met an old man who too a staunch Gandhian,  a champion of many social reforms and a political crusader. They had many things in common what they called their vision for India i.e. an India free from Corruption and ruled by principles of  Swaraj.

Eventually, the duo had some common ground on the issue of Lokpal Bill and agreed to start a protest against the incumbent system. Initially it looked more like a symbolic protest at Jantar Mantar by the veteran Gandhian supported by a small number of people.However, there was very sparse presence of people from across different sections of society. They were the people otherwise very anguished on the current political system.

Ignorant of the ground reality, Sangha, otherwise dissatisfied with the Incumbent political leadership, directed the members to join the old man, which eventually saw surge in the number of people. Fact is Parivar was so disillusioned about their political outfit that, they were looking for such an opportunity to tap the popular sentiment, “resentment against the govt”. It went to the extent of even patronising the same protest in a bigger scale. Opponent side “The Govt” was too equally clueless,  “whether that’s a Sangha program as the stage arrangements suggest”. As a perfectly tyrannical ruler, tried in every possible way to discredit them. In the meantime the young man, made it very clear that the protest was an apolitical one by refusing few otherwise hapless, deserted leaders looking for some asylum.

Nevertheless, the protest ended with a very positive response and also a hope, can this be scaled up? Few months later the Ram Leela Ground  hosted the same fasting to attract a bigger crowd. This time around, things were more structured and well-managed with regular volunteers and finance. But the script was already written, so the grand old party and nationalist party disagreed to agree to reach the consensus and a competition slewed to claim credit. The fasting old man survived with a parliament passing a resolution to consider the public demand.  Worth mentioning, the whole fasting ‘drama’ was a well covered and well publicized program resulting in a national event and units of Anti Corruption wings soared all across India. The very interesting fact here was most of the Anti Corruption unit members were erstwhile Sangha sympathisers and Delhi event was particularly sponsored by their local body corporators as if their own Parivar’s event.

Eventually with the new surged support base, the young man publicly distanced themselves from Sangha support.  No sooner Sangha realised that’s a strategic mistake but it was too late to reconcile. Their hope to ride on the anti corruption movement did not work  and they too displayed their displeasure when the Mumbai Chapter had a lackluster episode without much public fanfare read as Sangha support, this forced the young man to remain content with Delhi only.