It is the fight against corruption that Arvind Kejriwal chose to build a career in politics and for this he used the ladder of Anna Hazare. Without Anna Hazare, Kejriwal would have remained a social activist. Before taking the plunge into politics the leader of the Aam Admi Party should have realized that politics is not all about honesty in monetary terms.
Kejriwal has painted the BJP and the Congress alleging
corruption with the same brush realizing little that the BJP is not in power at
the Centre and the States where the BJP is in power the governments have
maintained a fair degree of clean rule. The record of Atal Behari Vajpayee
Government at the Centre is considered best in the post Nehru era.
You need money, you need funds to run any political
party. The Aam Admi leader has been boasting of
being a clean and honest man. People are being influenced to buy
Kejriwal’s honesty as the “mool mantra” of his politics.
Well, now charges have come flying about siphoning of
money by Kejriwal; the money that was raised in the name of India Against
Corruption led by Kejriwal. He is alleged to have misappropriated crores of
rupees that came in form of donations to fight corruption in government. The
movement was led by Anna Hazare and the people poured money in the name of Anna
and not for Kejriwal.
Shriom Gautam and several of his associates who took
active part in the movement of Anna Hazare and were front rank members of the
India Against Corruption have alleged that Kejriwal usurped more than Rupees 20
crores that were in the accounts of the IAC. Whether the charges are true or
false can be established only after a probe, but for now Kejriwal and his
company have not come out with convincing response. Gautam and others who
undertook fast with Anna have challenged Kejriwal to join debate with them on
this charge at Jantar Mantar on November 10, 2013.
Kejriwal worked under a well laid plan to launch
himself as a politician and leader of a political party. For this he first went
against the advice of Anna Hazare to keep the movement against corruption in
public life apolitical. When Kejriwal announced to form a political party, Anna
again advised him not to do so. But Kejriwal went ahead and formed AAP and
cleverly sidelined Anna Hazare while claiming the legacy of Anna’s movement
against corruption in public life. Not only that, huge funds that came to the
kitty of India Against Corruption are also being used for elections in Delhi.
It is not wrong to say that Kejriwal and his Aam Admi
Party are working against the BJP in a calculated way. Delhi voters who are
totally disenchanted with the Congress government of Shiela Dixit in Delhi and
the Government at the Centre led by Manmohan Singh would vote for viable
alternative that is the BJP. By fielding candidates the AAP is set to take
small share of anti-incumbency votes. The move is to sabotage the Opposition
against the misrule of the Congress.
~R. K. Sinha
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