In his two-day stint in Tihar jail, Arvind Kejriwal may not have had sufficient time to introspect on where he has arrived as a politician after beginning well enough on an anti-corruption plank. Had he been incarcerated for long periods, like our freedom fighters, he might have had the time to evolve a good political strategy and re-emerged a better man for, apart from bringing more chaos to Delhi’s roads by way of protesting party cadres, his latest tilt at windmills has achieved very little.
Occupying the Chief Minister’s chair for 49 days does not seem to have made the Aam Aadmi Party boss aware that India has laws that everyone must follow. If all society begins following his methods, it can lead only to anarchy. It seemed a straightforward legal matter to obtain bail by signing a bond with a surety when one is accused of a misdemeanour, be it of a political nature or otherwise. To believe there should be a different set of rules for someone who claims a modicum of popular support is to grant certain rights to politicians that they have not yet arrogated to themselves should go against his party’s grain of thinking.
Disruptive action is probably in the man who made yet another abrupt U-turn within a day of approaching the Delhi lieutenant-governor to stake claim to the chief ministership again. While once bitten, twice shy may apply to most, a confused Kejriwal believes he is a liberator who will change society just by being an eccentric contrarian.
