AAP's Dismal Show: Will Kejri Accept Responsibility?

[vikasgulia]

Dear AAP supporters

A sincere request, please do not belittle efforts of AAP winners in Punjab by attributing their success to Kejri's leadership and self proclaimed honesty.
If there is any assessment of Kejri's performance, then it is in Delhi. Delhi has rejected Kejri stock and barrel and Delhi will reject him lateron as well when assembly elections are held.

[AbhikRana]

Unfortunately Kejriwal and gang followed the same Communal card as the Congress party.

They visited Maulanas and Maulvis wearing those skull caps and pyjamas along with the scarf. Same was the case with Yogender Yadav who visited Mewat wearing this attire.

It's time these stupid political parties and leaders realized that Indian electorate is much wiser than they thought and these gimmicks will no longer work.

Good riddance that all these pseudo-secularists have been shown the door by the so-called communal party.

Ek Bharat, Shresht Bharat!

[amankadian]

Muje lagta tha wo 10 seat tak le lege.


@ Delhi ke Election main accha support mila. Unhone Socha ye chamtkaar Lokhshaba main bhi hoga or Delhi chod di. Jitna mila to usmain sabar nahi kia. Ager CM rahata ab tak Delhi ka to kuch or seat milti Delhi, Punjab main.


@ Modi vs kejriwal ho gaya. 1 mahine varansai main hi laga diya. Chunav parchaar kia nahi.


@ Everyone know that AAP ko vote dene se kya fayad hoga.

@ Inka agenda Govt. banne ka nahi balki Modi ko rokhne ka tha jabki 31% log is bar modi ke favour main they.

@ Muje lagta Kejriwal ne ground tyaar nhi kia apni party ka. Hawa hawa main 100 seat leni ki tammna thi.




Still they have hope in Punjab and Delhi. Vidhyansabha ke chunav main apna ground waha pe tyaar karna chiye. Or Delhi Vidhyansabha main.

it's just starting of it. They will have also strong management soon.

[sanjeev1984]

jab tak aam aadmi party ko strong mgmt milegi... tab tak vo dissolve ho chuki hogi...


Muje lagta tha wo 10 seat tak le lege.


@ Delhi ke Election main accha support mila. Unhone Socha ye chamtkaar Lokhshaba main bhi hoga or Delhi chod di. Jitna mila to usmain sabar nahi kia. Ager CM rahata ab tak Delhi ka to kuch or seat milti Delhi, Punjab main.


@ Modi vs kejriwal ho gaya. 1 mahine varansai main hi laga diya. Chunav parchaar kia nahi.


@ Everyone know that AAP ko vote dene se kya fayad hoga.

@ Inka agenda Govt. banne ka nahi balki Modi ko rokhne ka tha jabki 31% log is bar modi ke favour main they.

@ Muje lagta Kejriwal ne ground tyaar nhi kia apni party ka. Hawa hawa main 100 seat leni ki tammna thi.




Still they have hope in Punjab and Delhi. Vidhyansabha ke chunav main apna ground waha pe tyaar karna chiye. Or Delhi Vidhyansabha main.

it's just starting of it. They will have also strong management soon.

[amankadian]

jab tak aam aadmi party ko strong mgmt milegi... tab tak vo dissolve ho chuki hogi...


May be- jitni support logo ne unhe di hai shyad hi kisko mili itni jaldi. Per unhe piche chod aage bhajne Ka Kaam Kia

[Prikshit]

People of India has taken the responsibility. We have rooted out idiots this time, I hope same previals in coming days. Secondly 4 seats in punjab are won on personality basis and an added anti incumbency factor.
In delhi state elections, BJP will get around 65 seats under kiran bedi.

[vikasgulia]

An apt analysis:

Mirror, mirror on the wall, show real face of Kejriwal
http://liveblogs.indiatimes.com/parthian-shot/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-show-real-face-of-kejriwal/

Aam Aadmi Party leaders should listen to music. For that they don’t have to rely on NRI funds, or hold dharnas, or point fingers at others. They just need to press the right buttons, this time on their iPods. And the song that should be on top of the playlist is ‘Yeh jo public hai yeh sab jaanti hai’ from the 1974 Rajesh Khanna superhit, Roti. It has a lesson just for AAP.

The moral of the song is still relevant: you cannot fool the people for long; truth eventually surfaces. In the case of Kejriwal and his party, no amount of posturing, agitating or dole politics could veil their rawness for long. In just five months, from the Delhi assembly elections to the General Elections, AAP and Kejriwal shrank from being a hero to a zero. From declaring less than a month ago that AAP would win a resounding majority in the Lok Sabha polls, with some gorilla-like chest thumping, to now contemplating an alliance with Congress to keep their assembly seats intact, AAP has come a long way down. And fast. So fast that it seems impossible to believe that only in December it was the talk of the town, nay talk of the nation.

http://liveblogs.indiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/arvind-kejriwal-toon.jpg (http://liveblogs.indiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/arvind-kejriwal-toon.jpg)
Kejriwal became a giant-slayer of sorts by defeating Congress’ Sheila Dikshit, a major upset that sent the whole Delhi unit of the party packing. It was almost unbelievable that the party that held the reins of power for 15 long years had been reduced to just eight MLAs in the House. AAP gloated over Congress’ defeat, Sheila’s ouster, and began a mad dance of mobocracy, pooh-poohing every bit of wise counsel that came their way. They said Sheila and her party’s arrogance did them in—not a very incorrect assessment, given Sheila’s dismissive view of AAP as a serious challenge till the last moment. Yet it took Sheila 15 years in power to develop that kind of arrogance; it took AAP less than 15 days to reach Sheila’s level. Only if they had tried to emulate the strengths of Sheila, especially her good governance, AAP leaders would be scripting a different success story today. But that as we all know now, was not to happen.

AAP didn’t expect, when it fought the Delhi elections, that it would win so many seats and form a government. The sudden contact with power, a livewire of sorts, was perhaps a bit too much for AAP leaders—it knocked sense out of their heads. In a delirious moment, Kejriwal demitted office, and in another, he decided to contest against Narendra Modi in Varanasi. That was followed by a mad campaign of accusations, disparaging talks and an overall negative agenda, in which Kejriwal somehow convinced himself that Modi was losing. He thought he had figured it out all too well. He thought he was destined to slay giants, the proverbial David with the ability to kill Goliaths every time he stood against one. Everyone except Kejriwal and his party knew that he didn’t have a chance against Modi, for this man was no philistine: he had his ears to the ground, had risen through the ranks, had a proven track record of governance, didn’t have the corruption taint, and had the reputation of being a mass leader. His larger-than-life persona was bolstered by an aggressive publicity campaign put together by an efficient and resourceful machinery.
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As a result, from the salt pans of the Rann of Kutch to the tea gardens of Upper Assam, Modi was seen as the only man capable of turning around the country diseased by inflation and corruption. Naturally, when Kejriwal tried to punch holes into Modi’s carefully woven political and electoral fabric, he himself came to be seen as the nuisance-maker with an evil agenda. Of course, Kejriwal didn’t understand all that, did he? He didn’t understand that it was no Mithun Chakraborty movie where he could outrun a bullet, but a real test of political merit and relevance which he was ill-suited to win.

Just like Hitler, in the last days of his Third Reich, moved fictional armies on the drawing board to defeat the Red Army, Kejriwal assumed that his golden run in Delhi was enough to secure him victory in Varanasi. He said people of Varanasi wanted to vote for a “zameeni aadmi” (a grassroots worker) and were not going to accept “hawai raajneeti” (a reference to Modi’s travelling by a chopper). He made it appear that he knew the people and spoke for them, without, of course, making any effort to find out how people of Varanasi had been reading him. The result was quite expected—a humiliating defeat by a margin of 3,72,000 votes. His party’s candidates elsewhere met the same fate, the worst performers being in Assam where, as one analyst claimed, they polled fewer votes than NOTA.

The people of Varanasi didn’t merely cut Kejriwal down to size, being inhabitants of the world’s oldest city they also taught him an important lesson in life. I’m not sure if he has learnt it, or will learn it eventually, but that lesson is of humility. Not the Uriah Heep kind of false humility that Kejriwal has been exhibiting all throughout, but Lord Ram-like humility which he exhibited before a dying Ravan at the battlefield in Lanka.

Lord Ram showed that you could even learn from the enemy when he and Lakshman knelt at Ravan’s feet and asked for some parting words of wisdom from that great scholar. And Ravan said that things that are bad for you seduce you easily, so much so that you run after them impatiently, while good things appeal less and you find excuses to keep them away—an apt lesson for Kejriwal, who quickly abandoned the same people of Delhi, who had voted him to power, in search of greener pastures nationally. When everyone urged him to stay on in government and consolidate his position, he resigned at the slightest excuse to pursue a more seductive option. Clearly, he didn’t bother to read Ravan’s second lesson to Lakshman: that one should fly only as high as his wings could take him and not try to go farther, or else one would come crashing down to the ground. At least in this election, Kejriwal has had an Icarus-like fall. And it seems funny that only last month, his party’s leader Gopal Rai had equated Modi with Ravan.

It needs to be seen if Kejriwal rises like a phoenix or fades away. But of course, he needs to remember that yeh jo public hai yeh sab jaanti hai. You can’t fool us once again.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

[rajpaldular]

एक आदमी कल से गायब है।। अगर किसी को सुचना मिले तो भाड़ में जाने दे।।
नाम - अरविन्द केजरीवाल।।
कद - छोटा।।
सोच - छोटी।।
औकात - छोटी।।

[rajpaldular]

अब तो पूरा सँसार मानेगा कि वास्तव में काशी की वायु से स्वास्थ्य लाभ मिलता है।

उदहारण-: युगपुरुष की वो दिल्ली वाली खांसी, जो काशी में गायब हो गयी।

[rajpaldular]

राजनीति में खाने-खिलाने की संस्कृति थोड़ी बदल गई है। आप थप्पड़ खाकर सहानुभूति जुटा सकते हैं एवँ खाना खिलाकर पैसा।

[rsdalal]

Utni hee jaldi Kejri ne Rang badal liyaa, aur pakda gaya uska dhong


May be- jitni support logo ne unhe di hai shyad hi kisko mili itni jaldi. Per unhe piche chod aage bhajne Ka Kaam Kia

[Prikshit]

Utni hee jaldi Kejri ne Rang badal liyaa, aur pakda gaya uska dhong
Becoming a star is one thing, stardom comes at a cost. I consider his stand even worse than knagress.