A blog post dated 15 December 2014 on the first government of Kejriwal in Delhi concluded by saying, "A zealot is a zealot is a zealot...until time and age hopefully catches up with him before it's too late." That government was a short-lived one. In the elections which followed Kejriwal's party had an impressive victory. This seemed to have gone to his head: instead of ruling in a manner that would make people's lives better Kejriwal has decided to lop off the heads of the most intelligent leaders in his party. The hit list has two founding members, both well-read and articulate, and a retired admiral who was the conscious-keeper, the Lokpal of the AAP.
For a party which is literally a new-born one the accusations and counter-accusations that have been aired by AAP members in the last few days have an old ring to them. The style and substance to them does not herald a new dawn but is a reminder that the darkness in Indian politics is all pervasive.
AAP it seems is just a re-incarnation of the other parties in the Indian political spectrum with one important difference. In the AAP the difference is that the lack of diffidence to the 'Leader' is a crime punishable with demotion and expulsion. Kejriwal & Co. should do well to remember that dissent is the life-breath of democracy. Suppressing it makes a so-called saint just one more calculating person with pretensions to overarching political power. Pelf will not be far behind.
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