Kejriwal: What Led To The Accusations?

I do not know but I have a theory and the events support it also. We all saw how Team Anna’s anti corruption movement galvanized the entire nation. It felt like we were watching the dawn of a new era. However, Congress’ crooked maneuvers and differences in Team Anna ended that. Our readers know that we had written a lot on the matter. Anna Hazare and his team had the same goal but different attitudes about it. The older and patient Anna was found to be Gandhian in attitude, relying on Satyagraha and believing that a piece of legislation would force people to do the right thing. The younger Kejriwal, smart, cynical and aggressive, had different and seemingly more realistic ideas. We were more aligned with Kejriwal except we DID NOT agree with the extreme leftist and pseudo-secular angles to his beliefs. Team Anna was a disaster in making and ended leaving both men to their instruments.

Kejriwal thought that the only way he could fight this was from the inside and formed his own party. However, he also realizes that he needed to stay relevant. He needed a bombshell to grab the limelight.

We all know how Netas and Babus steal and hide their loot. You just have to look at their relatives and all the benami properties. It is only a matter of political will and a strong backing of either the judiciary or media to expose these crooks. YSR Reddy’s family is worth close to 500 Crore and no one found out about it until Jagan decided to go against the party high command. There exists a code of honor among the thieves. Even the BJP politicians seem reluctant in going after their crooked rivals. Therefore it had to be an outsider to expose these crooks.

We had written about Robert Vadra crooked dealings a while ago. It was right there for someone willing to see. Anna Hazare could have done it. Maybe he was reluctant and hoped that once shamed, these people will come clean or the Lokpal bill would take care of it all. If true, he was wrong. These people are pathological criminals and not people with honor. Of course, because of Anna Hazare, Kejriwal became a national figure and thus had media’s backing. With his new-found political ambition he now has the will. Time was ripe to go and uncover these crooks. Of course with the nation focused on big scams, 500 Crores is a “small” amount but since it involved the “Sarkari Jamai” it was a potent bombshell. Just what Kejriwal needed.

For the first time, someone has taken the fight to 10 Janpath. It is akin to making enemies with the entire system and we tip our hat to Arvind Kejriwal for doing the nation a huge favor. The man has brass balls (forgive me for using pedestrian language but nothing else captures the spirit) and deserves the support of the media and the aam aadmi. He will not succeed politically and will need the help of the BJP but he is too rigid and blinded by his leftist attitudes to see that. That of course will be the subject of another post. For now Arvind Kejriwal is a hero.

Our old post on Robert Vadra can be read at: http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2011/03/neta-babu-builder-nexus.html