The celebrity incarnation of
broom reached Mumbai (the Maharashtra round) yesterday.
After Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh,
the apolitically politically (though claiming to be and trying to project
himself as politically apolitical), the newest face of Indian politics is
trying to score in Maharashtra, a state where militant style of politics has
been in vogue since Bal Thackeray emerged on the political scene with Shiv
Sena. That river of roughshod politics is still flowing with Shiv Sena and its
rebellious spin-off MNS (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) copiously adding to the
stream of the political bravado.
Anyway, we were on the celebrity
broom and its bearer arriving in Maharashtra .
After making his presence felt in Mumbai the very first moment he arrived there
yesterday, he is trying to spread his wings in the state that sends 48 MPs to
the Lok Sabha, second largest after 80 MPs of Uttar Pradesh.
And it seems Mr. Kejriwal had
planned the show to make an entry that would be splashed all across. After
declaring himself an anarchist, he needed to oversee its percolation in the
rank and file of his party. That could have been one of the vital reasons, not
discussed so far, for resigning from the chief minister’s office of Delhi .
Small sacrifices are necessary to
achieve the central objective and the central objective for the Aam Aadmi Party
is to encash the unexpected success of the Delhi assembly polls to spread its political presence
throughout the country, in order to become more common with the common man.
Now that needed time,
concentration and some nationalized localization of the strategy.
Therefore, to ensure the plans
for a national footprint, the anarchist in Kejriwal inspired him to withdraw
his party from the Delhi
government.
Now, with an ever increasing
flare for generating controversies and brazenly claiming innocence and
audaciously blaming others for his deeds, he looks fully concentrated on the
job.
And by an increasingly anarchist
attitude of his party (obviously, inspired by him), it is clear that Mr.
Kejriwal has cracked the nut of practicing the type of politics that people of
the whole country are aware of, has been part of.
It is just the negative way of
the naysayers, the doomsday prophets who use words and phrases like political
hooligans, rowdies in politics, musclemen in politics, criminalization of
politics and now the political anarchists. They are found in Indian politics
practiced throughout the country and that is a logical way to look for their
acceptability.
Mr. Kejriwal had realized it and
he went a step further.
Until now, almost of the political
elements of this type has been restricted to regional politics. Mr. Kejriwal
has learnt its wider importance better than others and he is earnestly trying
to give it a national panorama.
So, what happened at the
Churchgate railway station in Mumbai yesterday was not a sudden response. It
had to happen. So, what happened today at the Mumbai airport was to happen.
Expect more of such spectacles as Mr. Kejriwal and the political anarchist in
him (and the anarchists in his party) advance to more destinations of the
political pilgrimage they are on.
Political hooliganism, political rowdyism
and political anarchy will be more on display as the battle for the Lok Sabha
polls enters its decisive phase. The regional pockets will get pan-India
support in the national ambitions of the anarchist Aam Aadmi Party.
Bravo, Mr. Kejriwal.
And please, don’t be deterred by
the criticism and controversies (just to say, you are already so thick-skinned
about it). Destruction of public property has been an essential part of Indian
politics giving rise to many shining stars of Indian politics.
Also, one needs to take some pain
in order to make wider gains. Your critics may not understand it but the public,
who is at the receiving end of your supporters’ exuberance when they damage
public property like they did at the Mumbai railway station yesterday or when
the common public faces massive traffic jams and disrupted days due to your
protests, understands and reads in between the lines to see the fine blue-print
of your intent to do the politics in the name of the ‘aam aadmi’ (the common
man).
Don’t stop. Don’t fear.
Keep it up. Go ahead.
Mr. Kejriwal, the nation, its
common men, are looking at the anarchist in you, with folded hands.
