It was to happen and it has happened. It
was just the matter of time, counting some sort of periodicity on the
fingertips, the 30 days milestone, the 50 days in the office or the 100 days of
the government in Delhi, a government of politically apolitical and (now)
apolitically political Aam Aadmi Party.
Whatever Mr. Arvind Kejriwal and his AAP
members say on the face, one thing is as clear as the viscosity of the Evian
mineral water and that is the ‘uniformly confused state of mind of the AAP
members including the last chief minister of Delhi’ in running the show of
Delhi from the National Capital’s Secretariat.
It is like being as confused as the timeline
of being ‘politically apolitical’ and ‘apolitically political’ in AAP’s
political journey.
In an age of duplicity and abject
character depravity, promises cost nothing for politicians. Writing so for AAP
and Mr. Kejriwal may still be too early but Mr. Kejriwal’s government faltered
under the burden of almost unachievable promises that he so large-heartedly
distributed while asking for the votes, and that ultimately pushed him to look desperately
for an exist route from the Delhi Secretariat.
He started dreaming to take over the
country politically as soon as he got a stunning political debut in Delhi. But
within days, he saw even the Delhi opportunity slipping away. It can be said he
tried to perform in Delhi but his orientation went wrong from the day one. It
became populist and vote-oriented and was not at all pragmatic and development
oriented.
Yes, it could well be inexperience that
pushed him to offer that much which was impossible in the narrow window of time
available before the Lok Sabha polls or which could support his anarchist,
militant style of politics, that regularly took anti-Constitution hues during
his 49 days of rule in Delhi, something that disappointed even the most optimistic
of his supporters.
Not BJP or Congress, but Mr. Kejriwal
and AAP brought down the government, officially exiting the Delhi Secretariat,
and irrationally escaping the responsibility.
And ironically, the shield behind which
Mr. Kejriwal is trying to save his skin, is the moralist cause of the ‘Jan
Lokpal’ Bill that looks lost in his verbal evasiveness.