Kejriwal: what a fool...

Thankfully, not too many people read my blog otherwise many of the righteous would already be  planning a dharna outside my place in GK2. So let me enjoy this Internet oblivion and write my 2 cents on what I think is going on in AAP ki Delhi:

1) A lot of people voted for AAP because they started to think the true specialization of Congress and BJP was to show their middle fingers to the voters. Voters got an opportunity to return the favor and they did it with gusto. Bigger the name, bigger was the thumping. Sheila Dikshit, AK Walia, Rajkumar Chauhan.....people wanted revenge and they wanted these modern day Niros dragged in the street.(I know of one BJP candidate who will not go out to campaign in slums without a hand sanitizer!!)

2) So after the giant slaying act, Congress made it even more fun by deciding to support AAP with no conditions attached. I for one thought that this would be a great opportunity for AAP to really do big things. I was in for a big disappointment and the worse part of it all is not that the voter is Delhi got fooled into supporting AAP who have turned out to be corrupt. No, these people seem to be dead honest. The problem is that they are plain incompetent.

3) Here is the reality check: the problem is not Binny and whatever Kejriwal's secrets he knows, problem is also not the antics of Somnath Bharti or even continuous distractions from Prashant Bhushan. All of it is noise. Problem is Kejriwal's and gang really don't know how to maximize opportunity and returns for the maxim number in Delhi. No announcements on how they will get water and electricity connection to the last slum, minimize distribution losses, ensure comprehensive waste management (both solid and waste water & effluent flowing into Ganga) better security, affordable housing...nothing. There is just no vision or even if it exists in some manifesto, no articulation since these people came to power.

4) I would summarize with saying that I really don't believe anything will change with these folks around. These people are proving that when it comes to governance, honest incompetent people are much worse than wise corrupt people. And that is a very sad state of the matters. Like it or not, history is littered with such examples....Nixon is considered amongst the most effective American presidents since the 2nd world war and he also remains the only president to have resigned in the middle of his term for Watergate.

5) Finally, does this AAP fiasco again prove that majority of the great agitators end up as duds when it comes to governance. Kejriwal's being the latest example. And does this example also prove that what  Nehru did after independence showed the sheer talent of the person to have made an effortless transition from being a fighter on the street to the leader in the secretariat.

I am beginning to wonder if we have a modern day Jyoti Basu or a contemporary Manik Sarkar (called the cleanest and poorest chief minister of India)..people who agitate but really have no vision of how to get things done. Agitation is an end in itself for these Robinhoods.