“Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order,
and everything becomes chaos, I’m an agent of chaos , and you know the thing
about chaos? It’s fair.” – couldn’t help but recall these lines by ‘The Joker’
from the cult ‘The Dark Knight’ when
Arvind Kejriwal declared himself as an anarchist in a resigned manner as he
became the first chief minister in India to stage a dharna. The same dharnas
used to be media‘s favourite at one point of time had now become the
battleground of controversial news material. The very media who pampered
kejriwal once, crowned him the throne of Anarchist.
Arvind Kejriwal is the result of lack of trust on political
parties, result of boredom, result of lost hope by people over ages. He was
expected to be an agent of change in the Indian Political System. People voted
for AAP to try to do something different, out of the box as they say.
Let’s flip back few pages here, Arvind Kejriwal as we all
know him now as Delhi Chief Minister has donned various hats as:
- . Instrumental in drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill
- . Won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act
- . Worked with the Indian Revenue Services
- . Worked with Tata Steel
- . B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur
This is the guy with an impressive resume, albeit any kind
of experience of politics in it. He is a fresher in the Indian Political
System. And as any fresher, he is bound to make mistakes now and even in
future. His mistakes are minuscule considering what the nation has been
through all these years because of “experienced” governance. So if you cannot
tolerate with his small setbacks, you cannot expect him to do something out of
the box. And as AAP is pro-swarajya, it encourages people to come forward, join
them and better the system. If you feel he is not doing the right thing, you know
what to do. AAP is recruiting.
The AAP is a great example of a start-up that targets the
market untapped and ignored by well-established competitors and to capture it by changing the rules of the game. AAP has managed to run a successful
electoral campaign through unconventional means and popular support. However
its success in governance is remained to be seen. AAP has been the heart of many controversies
off late like the Somnath Bharthi Incidents, Kumar Viswas Incident, Mohalla
Sabhas etc. These incidents may have deeply scarred its goodwill among the aam
aadmi. Political Biggies have not left any stone unturned to leverage on these
glitches to sway mind of aam aadmi thus creating a big question mark in his
mind. Media are riding these waves to create news which has further confused
people.
AAP has been quite vocal in their political ambitions for
general elections. But are they really ready for it? Any start up who are
planning to scale up their operations must need to build on their strengths
before planning to expand. They need to first accept and correct the mistakes they have
committed, regain goodwill they might have lost due to controversies and show
they can deliver on good governance to clear doubts in the minds of people if
any. Performance alone can guarantee life of this party. We need to remember
AAP is not the first party to portray itself as the peoples party. First it was
Congress during British raj and then it was BJP, and the rest as we say is
history. Let’s hope AAP doesn’t join the bandwagon and remain as ‘Aam Party’.
