I have been a hardcore fan of BJP, not because of being a
Hindu but BJP offered the only alternative to the otherwise corrupt and
indecisive Congress. BJP doesn’t have the cleanest leadership but there were
some key leaders like A B Vajpayee and L K Advani who constructed my political
sense and before the surge of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) BJP was perhaps the only
major party (exclude CPI & CPM) which had a truly democratic structure.
Congress and the regional parties are guilty of enforcing dynasties.
Enough of BJP; this article is about AAP and i shall be as neutral as possible.
Social networking has played a major role in the 21st
century and thanks to the opinion leaders in these networking sites today we
see a decrease in the number of educated youth who pass indifferent &
reckless statements about politics.
Last month ‘Arvind kejriwal’ has been undeniably more
popular in social media than any other personality including NAMO. With
Kejriwal and his team’s victory in the Delhi elections, it looked as if movies
like Yuva and Nayak are indeed going to be a reality. Every reasonable BJP and
Congress supporter also, somewhere deep inside, rejoiced with the entry of AAP. AAP’s victory truly
demonstrated the power of democracy and we need examples like these to make
sure that the so called Bahubalis
and Khaas aadmis are kept away from
the Indian Polity.
But somewhere AAP has displayed a lot of brashness or
arrogance in the media post the elections. I see each AAP leader hell bent on
painting every other political party black. It is either my way or high way!!!
Such has been the attitude of every AAP leader who appears on the news
channels. Today whatever freedom we are enjoying
under the tree of Democracy was a gift given to us by ‘Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
and team’ called as Indian National Congress. Congress upheld the principles of
Democracy, Liberty and Secularism. And when the Congress started getting it
wrong during the emergency era we
saw the emergence of the Janata Party
under the leadership of Shri Jay Prakash
Narayan. During Emergency the Janata Party fought a revolution, as well as
a freedom movement, and in 1977 when the elections were held Indians restored
democracy into India by defeating the dictatorial Indira Gandhi. Few years
later Janata Party would alter itself to become the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).
Thus both Congress and the BJP had a major role in keeping India as the world’s
biggest democracy and dismissing them as total crooks is indeed arrogance. There
has been no humility in AAP’s victory except Arvind Kejriwal’s rhetoric “Meri
Aukaat Kya hain”.
Another point that really amuses me is AAP’s sudden intent
of fighting the Lok Sabha Polls. Agreed you have entered politics to clean the
corruption but don’t you already have a task at hand. You have been handed
Delhi’s state government to keep your promises and take a charge of your ideas
and don’t you want to focus on that. Why can’t AAP deliver for this term in
Delhi, set an example and then take a plunge into their nationalistic
ambitions. How come AAP has decided to focus the next 3-4 months on Lok Sabha
elections than to deliver in Delhi? Of course water and electricity related
decisions have been taken but then there is a lot to do. Somehow this decision
of contesting Lok Sabha polls looks a bit out of virtue or probably getting
carried away.
BJP leaders have been contradicting themselves in the entire
run up to Delhi elections but there was one valid question. When Arvind
Kejriwal thundered that he would not have given or taken support to form a
government how come today he and his party is ok to take support of the same
Congress whom they fought vociferously. It may be argued upon that it was for a
greater good and such compromises were required but isn’t the AAP guilty of
accusing other political parties of low moral grounds. Forget the SMS feedback
exercise AAP’s critics will definitely not buy it, worse if some of AAP’s supporters
are sceptical about it. BJP did not indulge in horse-trading in order to go for
a re-election as they were convinced that AAP too wanted a re-election. What is
wrong in choosing a re-election or what is wrong in even offering an issue
based support to the BJP. After all it’s a similar compromise that you have got
into today.
Some of AAP’s top leadership have already taken political classes
and have started making irresponsible statements about Kashmir’s Autonomy or
even surrendering it. Minority appeasement was visible in the way AAP embraced controversial
clerics. Calling Batla House encounter fake, which even Indian Mujahideen
confessed of being true, only adds to the list of minority appeasement moves. A
tainted leader like Kamal Farooqi joining AAP will only complete the process of
AAP being termed as a B-team of Congress. So on and so forth there have been
few aspects on which AAP seemed a little less convincing and the only way to
judge them would be to give them time. Hence am going to be cynical about AAP
at least till this election.
There was a time when NaMo fans were considered intolerant
on social networking but the past month had witnessed the birth of thousands of
intolerant fans of AAP. The fact to be celebrated is that the educated class
has got involved into politics but sadly no body prefers to debate or discuss.
There is only abuse and that definitely is not a trait which any of these
parties would agree or accept.
JPR$
