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to 2 years back I have written about Anna Hazare and Arvind Kezriwal in my
blog, the only difference is now we have a lot of clarity on what they could
not achieve and where they have gone wrong (of course most of it could be mere
perceptions).Couple of hours back I was casually reading on Quora, A question
about Aam Admi Party supporters caught my attention. This person who posted the
question seems to have vexed up with the supporters of Kezriwal and APP even
after it's debacle in elections and sensation about Kezriwal's arres and
resignations of Shazia, capt.Gopinath. I think his frustration is fair but at
the same time "Supporters" have no choice to an extent, leaders can
resign and join other parties but a once supporter will always be considered to
be a supporters even if he/she does not believe in AK/AAP anymore.
So who to blame? Supporters or the party & Leadership?
First of all, I don't think AK has clarity on what he wants to
achieve with his party which in way promotes the culture of taking decisions
suddenly aiming short term gains - which will be frustrating for people around
him.
Second, Leaders who joined AK/AAP were in a hurry to support him
before even understating the philosophy of the party - obviously their
loyalties will disappear in a quick time.
Third, the way Aam Admi party is being run sometimes it looks
like an even management company who plans and executes “Dharnas”. Criticism by
Capt.Gopinath or by Shazia or not far from truth for obvious reasons. Absence
of Democracy" in AAP is quite natural for the reason that as a country we
are extremely far from this word internal democracy within our political parties,
moreover it is very unlikely to happen to AAP with the stance they take on
few issues like Kashmir, Khap etc. It will be pretty much driven by AK and few
more - I don’t think Shazia is new to this, and just realized there is "no
democracy in the party" .
Leadership is the problem for AAP, they seems to have come to a conclusion
that questioning is far more comfortable than answering. So for now AAP is an
unguided missile.
United by cause, divided by agenda. What will Anna, Kiran
Bedi and others do?
The whole nation knows the fact that Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi
supported Narendra Modi, now that he is the prime minister, can they influence
Modi to get the list of black money holders in swiss bank? If they ask will BJP
will act on it? These are the biggest questions bothering most of the honest supporters
of Anti-corruption movement.
Now that Kiran Bedi’s name is taking rounds in the media for
Delhi CM post, will she be able to put pressure on Modi’s government? Or will she
just keep quite? I can’t stop being cynical now, has she done all this just to
grab nation’s attention so that she could qualify for the top post in Delhi? The
much larger question is whether this whole “Anti-corruption movement” is part
of the long-term pre-election strategy of BJP?
Too many questions! They all arise because of we can establish a
relation and trend between the major players in Anti -corruption movement : Ram
Jethmalani is fighting a case I Supreme court to get the black money back, Ram
Dev Baba has been giving lectures on the same, we know about Kiran Bedi and
Anna Hazare already. But not even once these guys tried to come together and
sorted out a plan as to how they will pressurize the government to have this
major task completed. Now my questions make sense?
For now AAP is an unguided missile and Kiran Bedi, well should we
say future CM and Anna Hazare the Guru of 2 chief ministers, possibly the only honest
man left?
