“Rise of AAP: Questions there afterward”
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28th December, 2013 shall be written as a very important date in Indian democracy along with some other great moments. Indeed, it is a day when Indian democracy has started a new chapter whose valuation can’t be done right now, not even in 4-5 years but which shall be valued after many more years. All the Newspapers, TV Channels & other main stream media is full of praise of Arvind Kejriwal & Aam Aadmi Party, the way they fought & won election and formed government. At the same time, common men’s hope & aspiration knows no bound. They think Kejriwal has some magic-wand which will transform their lives, banishing all its misery.
The same atmosphere was created in 1977, when Janta Government was formed. What happened afterward & how the popular Janta government, having democratic stalwarts JP to Madhu Limaye, thinkers like Atal to Jagjivan Ram, honest like Morarji & committed administers like Chaudhary Charan Singh, fell like pack of cards under its own weight & contradictions. Let us hope & prays AAP Government does not meet the same fate.
The rise-n-rise of only one year old political party is phenomenon by any standard. A party, created by some rookies having no political experience & no one worth while to lead, without corporate funding, without much vision & thoughts, puts forward it first foot in wrong way by earning wreath of its own Guru & challenged the most powerful Gandhi family & top political leaders without knowing consequences. It is a party which was written off by political experts before it born & had only so called “Monsoon Pests” & “Gutter Swine”. But it broke records within a year’s time & made history by making government with the support of Congress which was attacked by them before & after election. What “untested” AAP will do in future, will it be able to give practical shape to its own “unrealistic” election manifesto or fails, nobody can tell now.
All the above has been discussed & shall be discussed by experts in coming time. Its phenomenal success brings some very interesting questions into my mind whose answers I will try to find in this post.
These questions are (1) Who created AAP?
- Arvind Kejriwal & his group or Anna Hazare‘s movement?
- The congress party or some foreign agency to destabilized India as some experts allege?
- The corrupt image of UPA?
- Ever decreasing political values?
- Common men helplessness, anguish?
- Ever rising price-rise & other common problem?
(2) Will Indian political system will adjust itself to this new reality? Or This new reality will adjust to present traditional political system? Or it will perish like Janta Party government?
To find answers to the above questions, we will have to go back in 2004 when UPA-I was installed & Manmohan Singh became PM after much “sacrifice” drama by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. No doubt, UPA did better work riding on excellent platform left by NDA government. Indian economy was booming, GDP rate was good, Foreign-exchange reserves was full to its brim. Middle class was with PM. Corporate world was enjoying free economy.
But, somehow, the benefits of good governance were not reaching to the last person of the society. Soon the news of farmers, reeling under utter poverty & unduly pressed by loans, suicide rocked India. This made Sonia Gandhi & his “bookish experts” jittery. Whereas the government should have taken concrete measures to give them relief, the UPA-I announced MNERGA & Loan waiver keeping an eye over next election, without giving much thoughts & without calculating its impact in long run.
UPA won the election again in 2009. This was the election where Rahul Gandhi campaigned for UPA throughout India. Congress leaders gave full credit to Rahul Gandhi for its success & a chorus was started inside the congress to replace Manmohan Singh with Rahul Gandhi. That did not materialized. But populist measure taken by UPA-I started showing its ill effect on Indian economy. Prices started rising making common man life uncomfortable. Government started to cut subsidiaries which added salt to wounds.
UPA-II regime was marked with rampant corruptions which were done during UPA-I time. Stories of these 2G, Coal Gate & other scams are not required to reproduce here. But it is imperative to mention here that they way government first tried to bursh them off as non-serious matter. But when persisted upon, it cited rules & regulations to prove “Zero-Loss” due to these scams. It was the time when arrogant ruling party leaders started attaching “constitutional authorities like CAG” & started advising Supreme Court to observe its “Lakshman Rekha”. Had not SC taken the investigation under its own ambit, people like Raja, the telecom Minister, Kanimozhii, daughter of DMK supremo, some top bureaucrats & corporate world chiefs might be free even now. Likewise many more scams were being exposed like Adarsh Society, Pawan Bansal bribes etc. In nutshell people started believing that this government does not look after people’s welfare but it is too busy in plundering India.
In this back drop, Anna started his “Anti-Corruption Movement” & demanded “Lokpal“. The frustrated public relied behind him in the same way as they supported JP movement in 70s. The government erred in treating this “Andolan” as badly as it could have. Anna was arrested & then released. Parliament expressed “Sense of the House” for Lokpal. Government did all drama to fool people by bring “Jokpal Bill” in place of “Lokpal Bill” & then got it deferred under rules & regulations as if rules & regulation are more important than the people. The ruling party leaders failed to sense “the sense of public”. They proclaimed “Parliament is supreme & no one can force it to make a particular law”. True it is supreme, it supreme in the sense that it reflects the sense of Indian public. But it is not supreme over the public.
Rulers misjudgment about public’s frustration, anger & anguish is proved by the incident of last year 16th Dec when “Damini” was brutalized by 6 people in Delhi. The mass anger came out in street. A unique “Andolan” started in Delhi’s “India Gate to Vijay Chowk“. No one lead this mass uprising. People were coming, joining & dispersing as if God’s himself was guiding them. It was clear indication that public is pronouncing “Enough is enough”. Though the government & UPA top leaders brushed this too & did not tried to pacify the public.
When experienced political leaders were fooling themselves over sense “the sense of public“, six common men sitting as “Jantar Mantar” applied their common sense & sensed “the sense of public” & immediate need to provide leadership to the real public. Thus Aam Aadmi Party was born.
Hence who created AAP? I think the combination of all the above factors created “AAP”. I conclude that “It is the frustration, anger & anguish of general public combined with all factors, created Aam Aadmi Party & gave it to unheard success.” Now it is duty of Kejriwal & group keep faith of the public.
They & all other political parties & its leaders, be he/she is SoniaG, RahulG, Modi, Mulayam, Mamta or Kejriwal etc, will have to understand & they will have to take serious note that
- Now public is not in mood to get fooled by them.
- They are not in mood to listen that rules, regulation or some institutions are bigger than public will & welfare.
- They will not forgive those to who betray them & their mandate.
- The time has gone for hero & family worship.
- The time has gone away when they were able to fill their own belly.
- Now it is time to act, time to act in public welfare & time to act in ONLY public welfare.
Whether Indian political system will adjust itself to this new reality? Or This new reality will adjust to present traditional political system? Or it will parish like Janta Party government? depends on that AAP has taken note of above point or not otherwise they too will be swept away by the same “Broom” by which they have posed danger other parties’ existence.
Whether Parties work in our welfare or not, we, the people of India, will not sitting silently till the present rotten, corrupt, traditional political parties & their system of governance is thrown into Indian Ocean & the benefits of governance does not reach to the “Last Man of the Society”.
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I feel one Can’t compare with JP era as Time change, people change, technology change in fact I mean everything changes. I concur with Gurudev and Amitabh that we need to wait and watch for further information and developments of how #AAPCON performs.
Well said sir. Only time will tell.
Let us wait and see the developments.