Hitting the low too soon!

“The developments over the last few weeks have removed the veil over Arvind Kejriwal
“It was their intellectual sense of entitlement, and an early realisation of the changing traits of Arvind Kejriwal that could prove detrimental for the party, and their aspiration to set the party right of the impending danger cost the duo dear.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a party that migrated into active Indian politics from a movement against rampant corruption and was projected as the voice of the common man now stands exposed as just another political entity, with nothing different to offer and becoming run of the mill stuff. With the unceremonious ouster Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, the two founding members, the party is firmly under the control of Arvind Kejriwal who now considers himself to the judge, the jury and the executioner. Their ouster comes at a national level meeting that witnessed allegations of of “brutal attacks” and “kicking” of certain dissent members.
Like the Gandhis in Congress and Narendra Modi in the BJP, Arvind Kejriwal has now become a leader who doesn’t like any divergent opinion , curbs any voice that poses questions and shows the door to those who press too much for answers.
Action on party’s internal Lokpal (ombudsman) Admiral Ramdass who was removed from the post has brought the focus on the basic doctrine of the party that came into existence on the issue of Lokpal has now removed its own internal Lokpal. Removal of Ramdas came a day after he was sent an SMS , asking him not to attend the National Council meeting to avoid “confrontation”. Miffed over the snub, he then wrote a letter to the Political Affairs Committee criticising the leadership. Kejriwal has been upset over those messages sent by Ramdas and this led to he being asked not to attend the National Council meet. The manner in which the Lokpal has been removed is against the AAP’s constitution under which the Lokpal appoints his or her successor, shows the extent to which Arvind Kejriwal can go to wrest power at all platforms, committees within the party.
The developments over the last few weeks have removed the veil over Arvind Kejriwal. All those allegations levelled against him by all those who deserted him over the last one year that include Shazia Ilmi, AnjaniDamania now stand proved with no barred meet of the National Executive. Given that he directed India Against Corruption’s great political dramas, and cast Hazare in the leading role now stand exposed as his attempt to garner all the possible best agendas and persons to fulfil his political ambitions. Arvind Kejriwal presented his party as a party “different” than any other party in India that is democratic, promotes transparency and has to fight corruption. Now, Arvind Kejriwal is no doubt is the AAP’s ringmaster and treats everyone else as performers. Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav’s mistake, for which they were so booted out of the National Executive, later removed as party spokespersons was not the absurd charge of anti-party activity. It was their intellectual sense of entitlement, and an early realisation of the changing traits of Arvind Kejriwal that could prove detrimental for the party, and their aspiration to set the party right of the impending danger cost the duo dear.
Will it be good or bad? Only time will tell. There is only one way of viewing Arvind Kejriwal’s grip on AAP – it’s his way or the highway. A party that started on the issue of Lokpal, has its internal Lokpal kicked out has committed a hara-kiri and voters would remember Kejriwal for that next time when he goes out seeking votes.