Respected Arvind Kejriwal,
This is a letter to you from an Aam Aadmi. An Aam Aadmi whom you are showing the dream
to make them rid of corruption, decriminalization of politics, empowerment to make
governmental decision for own area, making everything accessible easily at low
cost and so on.
Sir, your actions after you became Chief Minister raises
serious doubt about your real intentions. Your words and actions are not
matching nowadays.
During the election campaign, you accused the Congress
government for all the corruptions and misery of Delhi. None of your interview
or TV shows was complete without condemning Sheila Dikshit badly. But we saw a
dramatic change in you when asked to take action against her when you became
CM. It was really surprising when you asked for evidence when you yourself were
talking of some 370 page evidence against Sheila Dikshit. Recently, you have
ordered for enquiry on the Common wealth games but going in to the technicalities
of your case it seems nothing is going to come out, it is simply an eye wash.
Though surprising, to some extent this change in you is
understandable as you are CM because of Congress support only. But when you say
that you are not in politics to become CM or PM, then this statement is
hypocritical. If this is not the case then you would not have hesitated to open
the corruption related files of Sheila Dikshit. Anyway, I may be wrong here and
you might have thought that there are other higher priority things to be done
first than going for uncovering the corruption related files.
On the media channels, you are claiming that what you have
done in 1month, no other states CM, who became CM after last election, has
done. I really do not know what other 4 chief ministers are doing in their
state. After you became CM, none of the news channels are talking anything
about them. Whenever I switch on the news channels, it’s only you and you. So
can’t say whether they have done more or less work than you.
Sir, you state that in 1 month of governance only, you
provided free water, reduced the price of electricity, opened helpline number
against the corruption and you say that you are receiving ground report that corruption
has reduced considerably in Delhi.
It was not expected from the person of your qualification of
providing subsidies and freebies. There are people who are carried away with such
populist decision of yours but no person with even little economic knowledge
will agree with the method you have chosen for reducing the price of water and
electricity in Delhi. Providing more and more subsidies and that too for all
income level persons can never lead to a strong economical and prosperous state.
Being a Chief Minister, you are taking direct fight with the
electrical distribution companies and are always seen threatening them of
exposing corruption or cancelling their licences. Instead of always
threatening, you should try to hear and work with them to make them efficient,
productive and competitive. The way Telecom industry got revolutionised in
India and ultimately customers are the beneficiary, the same is possible with
electrical distribution companies if you bring competition in them. Customers
will get the option to choose the service provider according to the service
they get. But in order to this you have to raise from petty populist method and
widen your vision and need to think how more and more electricity can be
generated in Delhi instead of purchasing from other states as well as how to
provide efficient power transmission system to prevent loss and leakage of
power.
Sir, you say that you are receiving the ground report that
corruption has reduced drastically in Delhi. I agree with you, but do you honestly
think that this report of reduced corruption is going to last long? The way
currently you are dealing with corruption is like students are not cheating in
their examination when their teachers are standing in front of them. The moment
teacher leaves the classroom, students start cheating from other’s answer
sheet. So along with punishment for cheating, there should be a broader vision
of preparing students in such a way that they should not do cheating
irrespective of presence or absence of teachers. The point I want to make is
that your claim of reduced corruption in Delhi is not effective and permanent.
The day you step down as CM, it will be same again. So better think like a
statesman and not as hero where everyone is villain against you.
Your recent Dharna on the eve of Republic day and supporting
your minister for carrying out the raid in the midnight is utterly disgusting.
Being an Aam Aadmi and belonging from an aam (remote) place, I can tell you
that there are so many villages, cities and towns in India where people reach
to their local leader instead of Police for their complains. Some of those
local leader are hard core criminal or corrupt in the national media, but at
the local level they are hero for the common people, the way the deeds of your minister is heroic in the eyes of localities
of Khirki extension of Delhi. If you are supporting Somnath Bahrati, then you
do not have any moral to say such type of people in other part of India as
criminals.
In your Dharna, you have blamed the policemen for all the
rapes and crimes in the city and you want Delhi Police under your control as
you were not able to suspend some SHO who has not obeyed your minister. Once
again I want to ask do you really think that threatening words of suspension
and dismissal of police will solve the problem of crimes in Delhi. If we
compare our policemen with the police force of developed countries, they way
they reach the crime spot swiftly without any chaos, the way they avoid
happening big accidents or incidents is not because they are afraid of
suspension or dismissal, but they are trained like that. They are provided to
use the latest available technology and hence they are able to do more work in
less effort. It would have been better if in your Dharna you would have asked
to equip Police Force with modern tools and technology than simply suspending
them.
Frankly speaking, all these action of yours lead to think
you have become same politician as others are and your populist steps are
mainly targeted for Lok sabha election. You are utilising the people’s anger
against the current government in your favour for your political ambition and
luckily you have got the full national media support. You are changing your
statements frequently and that too by 180 degree. Now it’s not possible to
believe in your words.
You may think that I am writing this because of any
inclinations towards any party like Congress or BJP. I want to tell you that I
am not a BJP supporter but yes I am Narendra Modi Fan. I would have been his
supporter even if he was in Congress. I am Modi fan because of his personal
life struggle, his development work, unique ideas and solutions,
institutionalising the innovative ideas in to the system. More than political
speeches I like his apolitical speeches where he gives his ideas about
Leadership, Ways of removing corruption from the system, Technology,
Innovations, Visions etc which our national
media never show and discuss on.
Narendra Modi was constantly abused and cornered by our
media channels for so long but he remained silent and fought only legally. He
worked silently for the development of his state and when International media
and magazines started discussing about his development works and initiatives,
then Indian news channels started talking something positive on him. One individual,
who was constantly abused by the media and silenced for so long, still believes
in the system and says that everything is possible in this system and he talks
with proof. Like you, he is not labelling everyone as corrupt and villain who
ever speaks against. This is one of the impressive qualities of Narendra Modi.
I very well understand that there are many who are carried
away by your populist acts and on your Television showmanship, without
considering the technicalities. You say your intentions are clear but your
actions shows that you are exploiting the anger of the people for your
political ambitions of Lok sabha 2014. Due to your ambitions, India may get
devoid of stable government with strong leadership at the center.
At the same time I feel proud to say that you are the person
who has alerted all other political parties to change their path. You have
brought the involvement of youth in politics that always used to avoid talking
on politics and political leaders. Instead of always remaining neutral, now
people are talking and supporting on what they believe better.
This is what an Aam Aadmi felt and wanted to share with you.
I hope to see you not to bring temporary happiness by bringing Rickshwalas to
inaugurate hospitals but to make real change in their life. I hope not to see
you on Dharna but take your time and institutionalise your thoughts and ideas
which should last for long and long. I hope that under your leadership Delhi
should come at par with the other capitals of the world.
I would like to see you as an efficient administrator or
chief minister first with good governance, better employment opportunities,
secured and fearless Delhi; and hence for this election of 2014, my vote goes
for Narendra Modi.
Thanks .
An Aam Aadmi
I liked your blog very much, may be the reason behind this is that I have same opinion about Kejariwal & Mr Modi :) Thanks for such truthful blog, keep posting.
ReplyDeleteMotish bhai , I have read thoroughly your blog.It is nicely written. but I partially agree with what u have mentioned. Yes they are vociferous, but I believe that they have done what they were supposed to do; give people an alternate politics, very different from traditional parties. I don't want to get into further conversation; I respect your thought.
ReplyDeleteThanks Motish bhai for sharing this blog with me. I do agree with you here on some points but not entirely. It is clearly visible that you haven't written this blog being an impartial Aam Aadmi . I appreciate that you have accepted that you are a die-hard Modi fan and you will support him even if he joins Congress. Again you are doing the same mistake that most of us did in last 66 years that to follow a person and not an idea. That’s why Gandhi Families, Yadav Familes ((Lalu or Mulayam), and many other families have now become the power hub of our country. I am also a Modi fan (although not a die-hard) but at the same time I must say there are certain differences between Modijee and Arvind. Modi jee has a well-structured party where as Arvind just started this Aam Aadmi party with help of few fellow countrymen who joined him and supported this newly formed party so Modi doesn’t need to think about basic party related issue like funding, party members etc. You are correctly pointed that Arvind is using the anger of people but then why we have these anger inside us. Why BJP being an opposition party in Delhi since last 15 years couldn’t bring these anger out of us. Problem is very well known that except few individuals, BJP and Congress works in a similar pattern. They give tickets to criminals. They don’t disclose their donation details. Once they got elected they come back to people very occasionally and Aam aadmi feels cheated always. By emergence of AAP, now all parties forced to change this traditional ways of working.
ReplyDeleteYou disagree with Arvind when he sits on Dharna and lots of people said he is an ‘Anarchist’. But I support him because I feel that he has every right to protest (however I also feel that he shouldn’t have invited people to join him). Last week CM of AP(Mr. Kiran Reddy) also sat on Dharna (against Telangana) but no news channels termed him as an anarchist. When BJP, Congress or any other party doesn’t allow Parliament or Assembly to function and country loses lots of money then we don’t bother about it but if a person comes on street with people to raise voice then he becomes anarchist? Problem is that now a day’s some main stream political parties’ wants to sell their ideas with help of some paid media and they keep telling the same wrong thing day and night and unfortunately people start believing these half-truths. Regarding electricity Subsidy- I do agree that freebees not a solution and every parties should avoid this but Arvind has clearly mentioned when he declared this subsidy that this is only till CAG completes the audit ( 3-4 months) and after that it won’t be required. Now why Electricity companies specially BSES led by Amabani is so afraid of Audit if they are really going on loss. When they are collecting money every month from Delhi people the why they aren’t paying to NTPC. And you expect that current CM of Delhi should work like old CMs? No I think He is right when he say that you cannot threaten the people of Delhi. If you can’t continue you should go and we will ask some other companies to come and join us. You need to remember TATA also providing electricity in some areas and they don’t have any money issue then why BSES has? It’s clear that they are trying to blackmail AAP on CAG audit and may be some politics also being played in background. You say Modi’s development model is well praised but you will have to admit that he can’t develop states like Bihar or Jharkhand same way as Gujarat. Gujrat was always a developed state however I won’t deny that he has improved Gujrat. One more point you need to admit that Modi is not winning elections just because of his development model but also because he has become a symbol of Hindutava. In every speech now he says I was a chai wallah.I have come from a poor family. All these are not cheap politics. Why you need to say this every time? He talks about congress’ corruptions but same time he welcomes Yedurappa also in his party. Why didn’t BJP offer their support to APP in first place before congress did? They didn’t even reply to AAP‘s letter on support. BJP changes their CM candidate to counter Kejriwal means they do believe that Vijay Goyal is not an honest leader then why he has again become front face of Delhi BJP?
ReplyDeleteI know AAP is making some mistakes but isn’t it obvious that if you start a new career you tend to make mistakes. We all did and still doing. It’s easy to criticise but hard to deliver. Some time you tend to do some populist work to make people happy. They are now part of political system so they do need votes so that their voice can be heard off. If they would have got 2-3 seats in Delhi election, I am sure no one would have been discussing all these now. I will be happy even if AAP sits in opposition and force BJP and congress to do things which helps a mango man of our country. I don’t want Kejriwal to become CM or PM; I just want him to be there and do things to clean our political system.
I do feel they need to go bit slow and should not make decision in hurry. They will have to start believing that they are not here for 1-2 years and they have to stay long if they have to achieve something.
Now last thing, If BJP will come in power than with Modi , there will be other ministers in government also so would you expect then that every minister will be as efficient as Modi? I have no doubt in my mind that NDA government will be better than UPA but at the same time I do feel that BJP as a party will not allow to pass strict laws like Jan Lokpal..
Well written thoughts by Mr. Motish
ReplyDeleteMr.Anuj Singh, by passing strict law like Jan Lokpal will not serve any purpose to reduce the corruption. People will find other way to do it. The need of the hour is development in all the sectors and the transparency in the governance. If this happens automatically the corruption will be reduced.
I am not denying the importance of development in all sector and transparency in the governance. Even AAP is saying the same thing that we need to decentralize the power and need to involve more people to make it more transparent. I am sure neither BJP nor Congress would agree to make it transparent.But at the same time we defiantly need a strict law to punish the corrupts and set an example for others so that they should think twice before doing anything wrong or against the law.
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