The Great Tamasha!

I will be honest; I supported Kejariwal when he was with Anna. I supported him when he formed a political party inspite of reservations from Anna. I backed him up running for Delhi elections and I was very happy that he trounced Congress in Delhi vidhan sabha elections. And then he formed the government. I am not against him forming the government but for him to form the government with Congresse’s support was debasement of everything he stood for. Rather everything he said that he stood for. How can he? The Delhi government was ruled by Congress for fifteen years and yet he equated Congress with BJP and then took Congress support to form the government. What am I missing? Either I am hallucinating in the land of illogic or this guy, kejariwal must be smoking Kathmandu mewa! In my mind, he should have let the hung parliament, well, hung and then called for another round of elections. He either would have gotten trounced or received more votes to form government outright. Sadly he got power hungry even before he sat on the sinhasan. Taking Congress support wasn’t he worse part, as it turn out to be, it was just the start of lies and drama.

Right after coming to the power he started making grand gesture. Cut the power and water bill. And if you ask him who’s (baap!) going to pay the deficit then you are branded as a BJP member, a traitor, an anti-national. Let’s audit the power firms, water board and everything under the sky. Then he realized, this shit won’t garner enough publicity. So let that go aside and let’s send our law minister on a vigilante trip. Let him embarrass himself and then let’s go on dharana to avenge him embarrassing himself! What, there was another gang-rape? Splendid, he figured out how to dodge the bullet better than Sheila Dixit. He leveraged the rape to gain more publicity and create more drama. He paralyze the whole state government, shut-down the Metro, threaten the R-Day parade (which is only days away) and proclaim himself an anarchist and sat on a Dharana. What was the dharana for? Suspend the cops who went teeth for teeth with his Law Minister? Suspend the cops who let the gang rape happen? And get Delhi police report to the Delhi state government rather than the central government?

No one knows because his dharana achieved nothing. Well, nothing for the public that he swears he serves. But it was a grand success for his personal ambition. Now he wants to run for the Lok Sabha election. Now he wants to be a Prime Minister. And through dharana he is getting free advertisement in NDTV et al. Brilliant plan indeed!  

As sweepers started cleaning the streets Kejariwal and Co. littered, the reality dawned on everybody.  Delhi police is still under Central government. The gang rapes, very unfortunately, will continue to happen. (WTF is wrong with Delhi people?)  Even the prostitution and drug racket that his Law Minister bravely tried to stop will continue its business. Nothing changed. The reality that was yesterday continue to be the reality today. But the idea, protesting against the corrupt and bringing them down on their knees, that had power yesterday died chaotic death at the hands of political brinkmanship and personal ambition.

Mr. Kejariwal, you no longer have my support!