News of dissent growing within AAP and stalwarts ditching party never died down in last one month . The list is growing bigger and bigger with every passing day,though it started long back with Binny but added bigger names like Upadhaya,Bhaduri,Sazia,Gopinath,Yogendra,Damania,PreetiMenon and many more and it is rumoured that very soon the list will also include Kumar and more important persons .
INDIA HONEST had similar anticipation on Arvind Kajriwal and his off shoot AAP and IH had long back commented in the blogs with the headings :
"Is Arvind Kajriwal at Best a Howling / Shouting Vagabond ?"........IH wonders, if this extra enthusiastic rather jealous Arvind is, after all in any sense a nation building material, when he and his six month old party supporters have regularly indulged in violence and dharna, making false or unsubstantiated allegation or twisting the facts to create misunderstanding ......The people specially the intelligentsia has to ponder deeply and judge, if they are justified in following him blindly ?........
http://indiahonest.blogspot.in/2014/03/is-arvind-kajriwal-at-best-howling.html
Learned and seasoned columnist Jagannathan has summarised the history and fate of Arvind and AAP in his critical best, while choosing to point out the most logical question,"Why is AAP self destructing? "
The answer was never unknown to most, only the details are now resembles to what one is seeing live now.AAP ,an off shoot of Anna's anti corruption movement, was created by Arvind Kejriwal as a strom in the vacant arena in Delhi.The columinist says, "Kejriwal came, he saw, he ran away. That’s the story of Arvind Kejriwal so far. They came, they saw, they conked out.
"This is story of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) so far, with defeat sending the party into paroxysms of self-doubt, infighting and masochism. After the rout of the party in all states barring Punjab in the Lok Sabha elections, the flood of entrants to the party that began soon after its unexpectedly good showing in the Delhi assembly polls is now reversing.
"Manish Sisodia, another founding member, is pointing fingers at Yadav for targeting Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal has sought self glory at the expense of AAP. To be sure, defeat always leads to blood-letting in any political party. So in this regard AAP is no different. The problem is we went wrong in presuming that AAP would be quite different from other political parties. It wasn’t really so. While it would churlish to deny that AAP started – and continues to remain – a party with a clean image, its trajectory has followed that of any other Indian political party".
The story of self destruction may be well understood in the few specific pointers given by him as below: First it was December, when the party looked like a winner, everybody wanted to join it. The Aaya Rams entered the picture. The fact that most of them were from middle-class or corporate backgrounds needn’t confuse us. Journalists, corporate honchos, retired do-gooders and failed NGOs saw AAP as the route to political power. Little wonder, that after the 16 May defeat, AAP is seeing an exodus. How is this script different from that any of the other political start-up in India? It was opportunism at work; The only difference being the class that saw opportunity in AAP.
Secondly people must agree that Every political party has used favourable winds to grab power. This is exactly what AAP under Arvind Kejriwal did. On the basis of one unexpected victory in Delhi and the media hype built around Kejriwal, the party concluded that the world was its to conquer. The Delhi media, afraid of what Narendra Modi may bring to their own fortunes, suddenly saw Kejriwal as the great white hope. They led him up the garden path, giving him the conviction that he was invincible. After all, he had defeated Sheila Dikshit. So why not Modi?
Third the most important aspect of the sad story of AAP is its chief Kejriwal’s political ego, but how it was different from that of any other Indian politician is the question , the columnist raises ? Arvind pretended that he was not after power. Fake humility and real hubris is the hallmark of every two-bit Indian politician – and Kejriwal was no different. Which politician, bar Modi, has openly declared his ambitions transparently in the run-up to power?
INDIA HONEST agrees with his conclusion that like every other party, Kejriwal was a one-man show. Despite all pretence at being democratic, the fact is Kejriwal was the only leader AAP projected – or, rather, he decided he was AAP and AAP was him. So whatever he did was never questioned. When he was called to a police station in Gujarat for violation of a poll code, AAP volunteers – normally very concerned about the rule of law - attacked the BJP office in Delhi.
Kejriwal made a great show of seeking the Delhi voter’s permission before becoming CM, but he did no such research when deciding to take on Modi in Varanasi or when quitting as CM. Democracy and referendums are apparently relevant only when Kejriwal can’t make up his mind. How was he different from other Indian politicians, who talk democracy only when it suits them, but forget about it at other times?
INDIA HONEST fails to find an answer to the most logical question,"Why is AAP self destructing ? " If this oufit has finished its target goal of opposing a particular person ? Was Kajriwal guided by others to do so ? Many past and present steps seems to be pointing this, that the whole AAP story was written and planned by unknown sources, and those have opted to close it now, a slow and natural end.