Anybody who talks about mohalla sabhas and recall and other 8th standard social science naïve concepts as tools of governance, in a country/city as populated and diverse as India/Delhi, cannot be taken seriously. This is a recipe for anarchism and a handy tool for anti-nationals to stall critical development which every inch of India needs non-stop for the next decade atleast.
People like kejriwal, and others in AAP as well, are too steeped in the chaasni of their goodness, self-righteousness, false sense of victimhood and impracticality to do any good to anybody. He could have easily negotiated with other parties and stayed in government and worked to make actual difference in the lives of delhiites. But he chose a convenient escape route to spread his goodness in all of India. His and AAP’s self-righteous stand on corruption is hypocrisy personified. AAP supporters on this forum believe in his stand and defend him when he says - mein sahi hoon baanki sab chor hain, while merrily typing away on this forum from their office computers and getting paid for a full day of work.
All the underlying causes that define this man as a quitter is still there and he is going to run away again if he is elected CM of Delhi when things don’t go his absolute way, because running away is easier than staying there for the long haul and working with everybody behind the scenes to make Delhi a better place. He needs to sit in opposition for 5 years and learn the art of consensus building and then become a political force replacing congress.
I have been following local state and national elections for over 25 years now and AAP’s manifesto and action points are nothing different than that promised by each and every party all those years and failed to deliver. So important thing to consider is not who promises what, but who has the demonstrated ability to work for the long haul and implement and deliver, and we all know the answer to that.
