Publicity Hunter Kejriwal

The publicity hunter Arvind Kejriwal has been out of focus on news front for quiet sometime. Media was not paying any attention to what he was doing or what he was saying. Suddenly on September 21, the Aam Admi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister surfaced in Chennai. Lo and behold, he hit the headlines on Thursday in national media.

He flew down to Tamil Nadu to share his concern for the country with Kamal Hassan who has decided to take a plunge into politics. The super star of Tamil films who has also a string of Hindi titles to his credit would form a political party that would work and care for common man. Kamal Hassan forgets that the copy right of Aam Admi is with Kejriwal. The founder of Aam Admi Party was alarmed that how come Kamal Hassan was spelling the agenda of his yet to be formed political party without consulting him (Kejriwal).

So, he reached Chennai with a bouquet of flowers to greet Hassan at the latter’s residence. Kejriwal said, “It is important when the country is facing strong forces of corruption and communalism that like-minded people talk to each other and work in tandem with each other. We had a good meeting; we exchanged ideas and spoke about the situation in Tamil Nadu and the country,” Mr. Kejriwal said, adding that they would continue to meet in future.

Kamal Hassan also forgets that Arvind Kejriwal has the copy right of one more issue confronting the nation; the issue of corruption. Kejriwal thinks he is the only leader in the country to fight corruption. Look at his ways of fighting corruption.

Kejriwal is a votary and supporter of Lalu Yadav who has been convicted in the fodder scam and is barred from contesting elections. Kejriwal is also silent on income tax and enforcement directorate investigations against Lalu’s son Tejaswi Yadav and his daughter Misa for holding benami property running into several crores of rupees. So, Kejriwal fight corruption this way. He went to Patna to attend Lalu Yadav’s rally on August 28 last. There was great bonhomie between Kejriwal and the ‘honest politician of Bihar Lalu Yadav at the dais. Kejriwal hugged Lalu assuring his support for Lalu fighting corruption charges and cases against him and his family.

After having been dumped by the Congress and the Left Parties, Kejriwal is desperate to find new friends in politics. But Kamal Hassan should know that embracing Kejriwal would only bring discredit to him and his yet to be formed political outfit.

There are more than half a dozen ministers in Delhi Government headed by Kejriwal who are facing corruption charges. He has thrown his mentors out of Aam Admi Party. Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were removed from AAP by Kejriwal. Shanti Bhushan, father of Prashant Bhushan and former Union Law Minster in the Moraraji Desi Government of Janata Party in 1977-79 had contributed Rs, one crore to Party fund of AAP to establish Kejriwal. But Delhi chief minister has no qualms in stabbing his mentors from behind.

~R.K.Sinha