Thursday, June 11, 2015

Is the LG there to carry out the wishes of the People or to take orders from the BJP - Narendra Modi?


Amidst one-sided and blown-out-of-proportion English and Hindi media coverage/badgering, it seems like AAP is just fighting fire after fire.

The BJP-led Narendra Modi Government on an AAP Minister in the nation’s capital makes unconstitutional, violent and political arrests, and the media just calls it "what the minister deserved". Shocking? No. Sad? Yes.

The politically motivated Delhi Commission for Women headed by an ex-Congress MLA wakes up after years to make media spectacles of the personal lives of AAP leaders and MLAs instead of working to prevent child sexual abuse, implementing the Vishakha guidelines and protecting the rights and empowering marginalized women and girls in Delhi. Surprising? No. Shameful? Yes.

The Lieutenant Governor takes no interest in the lives of Delhi’s citizens: electricity supply-side shortage, water-level reduction, deteriorating schools, defunct hospitals or the corruption affecting every sector and strata of society. The problems of Delhi are all for Kejriwal to solve without any help but transfer postings of civil servants which are a huge revenue source and the appointment of a pliant head of the scarily best-functioning AAP-led Anti-Corruption Branch whose powers have repeatedly been curtailed by the BJP government are suddenly asserted as his eminent domain. Curiously enough, this starts as soon as the CNG Fitness Scam files are opened which implicate the LG himself. Rather interesting line of questioning to follow? No! The reportage is "Kejriwal starts his anarchy again!”. Period.

Think about it: Wouldn’t it be great if the BJP-selected LG showed such decisive resolve and pro-activeness in transforming service and amenities delivery of electricity, water, education, health and social welfare? Our guess for why he doesn’t do it is that there are no monetary or political gains to be made from improving people’s lives. And so, even as Arvind Kejriwal is abused on a daily basis on television, newspapers and sometimes your drawing rooms based on the media reports you consume, he will fight to solve the problems of your lives, not transfer postings. We may democratize power cuts and water shortages but we have already their improved total availability and are planning for the long haul. We are working to make our citizens healthy by reforming our hospitals and keeping our city clean and pollution-free. We have the only MLA, Gulab Singh Yadav, who sends his child to a government school because we are your political representatives, not your political masters. Our children will benefit or suffer from the same education that we give to you. Provides for a better commitment contract than speeches, no? Finally, we are a party that believes in Swaraj. Not just in idea, but practically! We will not give you good governance. We will give you the government.

Still, the time is not far away when there is a news story break that says: "AAP MLAs buy chips and Coke without a receipt! They must have disproportionate assets! Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in cahoots with the VAT mafia! Arrest this tax defaulter!” Just kidding! Actually, maybe not smile emoticon

All this when BJP MPs make bigoted hate speech. All this when Shri Narendra Modi's Cabinet consists of rape-accused "absconding/missing" Nihal Chand and creative false election affidavit writer Smriti Irani who forgets the degrees she earnt and puts Ivy League Schools to shame. All this at a time when our PM’s law and order or marital history is not even up for discussion on television. Are we ostriches or humans?

AAP gets slander and abuse from the BJP and its media amplifiers and loudspeakers for not showing moral fortitude. Yes, this is the same political party that currently houses in Parliament: 4 murderers, 10 persons who attempted murder, 7 robbers and 3 kidnappers telling the party whose Law Minister resigns till his name is cleared after an unconstitutional, unwarranted and farcical arrest takes place for a matter that is subjudice, to show “moral fortitude”. It seems like their version of the Oxford English Dictionary must have weird word-definitions.

One third of the BJP in Parliament has criminal cases against them. Will they be arrested or prosecuted? Don’t be silly!

The BJP has 97 MPs with criminal charges. Will they be arrested or prosecuted? Don’t be stupid!

The BJP has 61 MPs with serious criminal charges like rape and murder. Will they be summoned by the courts or by the police? You must be dreaming!

Forget each and every state, but 21 Ministers of PM Narendra Modi’s National Cabinet face criminal charges and 11 of them face serious criminal charges like rape and murder! At least they, the principled co-workers of our self-proclaimed anti-corruption crusader aka the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will, at least be questioned? All of them live in Delhi and work in Delhi? Can the Delhi Police not show the same bravery it did to arrest Shri Jitender Singh Tomar, the AAP MLA and ex-Minister?

NO.

How stupid of you to think that the Police is an investigative agency that respects the Court and conducts independent, honest and professional enquiries and stops when the Court reprimands it for conducting a farcical exercise against AAP. It is a tool that the State and more importantly, the reigning political party use to break down voices of protest, honesty and revolution! They don't break the opposition like the Congress because they need to repay the favours of protection that the BJP received for 10 years. Quid pro quo in its purest form. Live with it!

However, we knew this when we got into the system and as we attempt to clean it. Nobody said it would be easy. But it is doable and possible if one has the right intentions and puts all their efforts in the right direction. This work has already begun in Delhi.

Rest assured, we are not going away from our duty or shirking our responsibilities. Instead of worrying about the news being created and fabricated about us, we are creating news by delivering on our promises and fulfilling our manifesto! We wake up daily and think about what promises in our manifesto haven’t been fulfilled and work on it instead of looking at an atlas and thinking about which countries haven’t been visited smile emoticon We are changing lives on the ground and not on the television screen. We are working hard at changing the paradigm of governance and making Delhi, India's first happy, inclusive, prosperous, modern, hi-tech corruption-free city!

Relax! Vested political, media and business interests will go after us and call us names. Just tune them out! Judge us for the work on the ground.

In the meantime, it’s getting late. Turn that television off and watch this before you sleep: an awesome moment from the elections when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made a great bet and won smile emoticon

Dear Aam Aadmis and Aurats: Happy 4 months of winning the election that will change India forever! Thanks for giving us the chance to help us change the system of governance, government and politics! We will never waste the faith that you have reposed in us. For we are you, the Aam Aadmi. 

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