Bhubaneswar: Arvind Kejriwal who rose like a phoenix from the ashes has seemingly not spared a thought to Wayde Goodall’s Why Great Men fall sayings – “Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.”
Overwhelmed by the brute mandate on his side, Arvind Kejriwal assumed that the Delhi emperor crown will rest on his head forever. The Aam Admi Party supremo’s conviction grew stronger when Modi Tsunami whimpered at Delhi Durbar.
From here begins the unmaking of this leader ARVIND KEJRIWAL, whom many considered a fresh whiff of air in the stinking political space.
His making begins at the time PM Narendra Modi has been venturing into the national political space.
THE MAKING
After sixty-five years of independence, and a decade of mega scams, crony capitalism ruling roost, common men were left disgusted and frustrated.
Aam admi were seen crying Ahem Ahem!
After getting bruised hard by the heavy triple doses of corruption, inflation and lawlessness, a man with muffler, and often coughing much, hit the streets. The man gave a clarion call to all to banish the corruption and the corrupt rulers.
Like the pied piper, thousands came out on to the streets to fight against the biggest evil gripping the country – corruption.
Led by Anna Hazare, the Janlokpal Movement was a call to the politicians of India to listen to the common man's cry – bring an anti-corruption law.
Like a soldier behind Anna Hazare, this man did every single way possible to plead the noble cause to the government. They held peaceful protest, courted arrest, did indefinite fast and had several rounds of negotiations.
But despite the huge wave of public support in favor of a strong anti-corruption law, the ruling elite then was not ready to bring every public officer serving under scrutiny in the ambit of Jan lokpal's radar.
BIRTH OF POLITICAN KEJRIWAL
Riding high on the strong citadels of idealism and determination in the fight for an anti-corruption law, this man differed with his mentor Anna Hazare.
When mentor Anna Hazare wanting to tread the path by social activism to accomplish the greater cause, the man, his disciple, is for dethroning the corrupt and corruption by waging a political fight.
This man wanted to gain political power to bring about actual change in the system.
Seeing no big outcome from the idealism of social movement, this man decided to take a plunge into active politics and formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
With the birth of Aam Admi party, Politician Arvind Kejriwal was born.
Arvind Kejriwal was then seen calling names of corrupt netas and babus. He used to claim then that he strongly believed that most political parties are corrupt, greedy and thick skinned.
He then had promised that the time had come to bring political power back into the people's hands, this idealism struck the common mass’ imagination in a big way.
Arvind Kejriwal became the mass HERO!
Honest politician, BJP leader and Goa CM Manohar Parikh had said this to Arvind Kejriwal then:
“Arvind Kejriwal has shown the right intent. Now people have to wait and see if he can deliver on his promises.”
He won Delhi Assembly elections in a grand way on his debut. This muffler man went on win two successive Delhi elections big, humbling the Modi tsunami.
THE UNMAKING
Absolute success seems to have gone into Arvind Kejriwal’s head. The politician Arvind Kejriwal seems to have pooh-poohed former Goa CM and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s wise counsel.
He faltered on his promises to deliver. The man who promised to transfer political power into the hands of people stumbled in delivering.
The man who talked about banishing corruption from public life, gets shrouded by series of scandals.
In his 10-year absolute rule in Delhi, big skeletons keep tumbling out on his cupboard and the same man, who was seen then calling names of corrupt netas, defended his colleagues, and even went on to the extent of hailing them (Satyendra Jain et al) as Bhagat Singh.
Under absolute intoxication of power, Arvind Kejriwal came under Supreme Court’s scrutiny in the guise of mega liquor scam that hit the Delhi government when the country and the capital was batting with the once-a-lifetime-pandemic.
The SC directing Arvind Kejriwal to stay away from signing any file shadowed the Arvind Kejriwal halo. He became a suspect of corruption in people’s eyes.
Like top up, Arvind residing in a mansion like house, which BJP taunted as Seesh Mahal, didn’t wash well in the public eyes.
And the depth of fall measured Saturday when the Delhi poll results were out.
Though Corruption has been the prime factor behind his unmaking, his following traits have a big role in turning his political blockbuster – a disaster!
- Drama and volatility
- Not willing to do the work
- Always confronting with Centre
