Sacked AAP minister drops graft bomb on Kejriwal-H
COMMENTS: That Kejriwal should be rocked by the GRAFT BOMB is heartbreaking for those who believed or do believe in Kejriwal as a 'phenomenon' in Indian politics, yours faithfully included. And for those who want to see the end of Kejriwal as a phenomena, this shall be gratifying. However, a window to Kejriwal is necessary to understand if he is the man of his own mind and could be influenced. We met him personally when he came to Goa's Hotel Manoshanti [Panjim] to deliver a talk on RTI, some year ago. This was before his joining with Anna Hazare's INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION movement which rattled India's politics, more so the communal politics of the BJP in Delhi, to be precise. At this meet, we were there to evaluate him and to see if he had what it takes to lead India's politic to a saner path of good effective governance, and, if he could respect and enforce the SECULAR Constitution of the Country, having heard much about this IRS trained prodigy. And, we had gone prepared. We took our chances of handing him our life-time work, the hard copy of our ROADMAP FOR GOA, along with a copy of the Party's Constitution with an advice " IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING TOWARDS CHANGING THE PRESENT AND PAST POLITICS OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU MUST FORGET ABOUT ACTIVISM AND GET INTO ACTIVE POLITICS" To our euphoria, he did just that by not only getting into the bedrock of politics but also to smash the Communal BJP to smithereens in Delhi on his second try. This is what the world of Indian politics was waiting for, notwithstanding what his guru Anna Hazare thought of him, himself being a sympathizer of the RSS-BJP and their mole to see the ouster of the CONGRESS. The first indication that came through that he might be influenced by others or having a Hitlerist trait in him was when he unceremoniously sacked the three founding pillars of his nascent AAP, namely the Bushans and Yogendra Yadhav, the universally considered as moderate conservatives. It is said that this was done so that he could freely dish out tickets to unscrupulous elements which exercise was opposed by the trio. Next, he removed the pollution norms for the industries in Delhi, apparently as a give and take gesture to appease the industrialists, to bring the pollution levels in Delhi so high that school kids had to wear face masks. There was no reason for him to declare that he will never contest elections while in the IAC. Later, he had declared that he will not avail of ministerial housing etc, etc., all of which he forgot after being in power and took U-turns, so much so that he refused to let go of his official accommodation when his first govt was dissolved. This has’t gone well with the people who aspired to have a change for the better. And now, scams after scams, this bomb shell, that he received 2 crores and refused to justify to his own MLA n Minister its receipt. We are not bothered about his receiving the amount. It could be the promised commission on the sale of certain property that Mr. Satyendra Jain had brokered. It could be anything. But it needed to be explained, at least within the inner circles. Hopefully, he has the right answers to all these questions and hopefully he will survive the effect of this bomb shell thereby not to give victory to his detractors, especially the BJP which has been gunning for him. Vis a vis his Goa escapade, we did have a sitting with AAP [ through our mutual friends] when it showed its intentions of contesting in Goa. Though we are against aligning with national parties, AAP was a party that has arisen from the bed-rock of social activism, just like GSRP in Goa. And Goa’s in charge, Mr. Pankaj Gupta was told in no uncertain terms that if at all GSRP & AAP could come together, it would be on a strict common minimum programme, where GSRP’s constitutional provisions at Art. 38 [ no govt corporations to MLAs] would never be diluted. This, for reasons of bringing in belt-tightening exercises so that the huge burden ofGoa’s public debts is addressed, while Art. 34 [ Only 5 member Cabinet] could be stretched to maximum 9, in order to show that GSRP was still relevant vis a vis its promises to the people on stopping profligate attitude towards Goa’s tax-payer’s money. Mr. Pankaj Gupta had indicated that the decision shall be taken by Kejriwal himself and that a meeting with him shall be set when he arrived In Goa. This never happened because Kejriwal was adamant of going solo and thought that Goans can be influenced by a blitz of a campaign where hundreds of crores of rupees spent over it would dazzle Goans into giving him absolute majority. Sadly, his Goan associates failed to warn him that Goans are a hard breed and are not likely to fall for cheap political gimmicks. He culminated his foolish thrust in Goa even further by declaring a ‘bureaucrat’ as the Chief Ministerial Candidate. Goans very well know that bureaucrats are persons whose backbones are broken to the extent that they can never stand up to say ‘NO’ when it comes to the demands by the political masters. In this case, Goans knew that with the Master in Delhi and his puppet in Goa, ‘Dilli Raj’ would again take hold with the puppet in Goa dancing to the Master’s tunes. Besides, there was not a whisper on MOPA and Mining Cap was to be increased instead of it being reduced. Also, manifestos are made by the institution called the Political Party to correct the wrongs as according to its political ideology and not through knocking at the doors of the voters to ask them what they want. For the past 55 years, Goans, at election times heard how the political parties wanted to move vis a vis the crippling issues and silently voted accordingly as to what was best for them and their Goa. But here was a novel political party which asked the voters what they wanted and what they did not want to be included in the Party’s manifesto. This was the cardinal mistake which invited its total wipe-out. On 11th. March, Kejriwal’s Humpty Dumpty in Goa had such a great fall that he himself would never have dreamt of. If we know GOANS, It is unlikely that his Goa Humpty Dumpty can be put together ever again no matter how many King’s horses and how many King’s men try to seat him back on the throne. Floriano Lobo Mob: 9890470896 Website: goasu-raj.com http://www.goasu-raj.com/gen/display_commentsOnNews_data.asp?pg=3947
