The Bangalore Metro Reporter
THE EXPOSURES BY ARVIND KEJRIWAL!
ACCUSING AND EXPOSING EVERYONE, WHAT DOES KEJRIWAL WANT?
Arvind Kejriwal and group has now targeted the Reliance Company. The Kejriwal group which styles itself as civil society and India Against Corruption has charged both Congress and BJP being in the pocket of Mukesh Ambani. There will be many more exposures on politicians, political parties and Industrialists. Interestingly Kejriwal group have hitherto spared the bureaucracy which plays a major if not decisive role in corrupting the system. Till now, the Kejriwal group, an off shoot of Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal movement, has defamed everyone including the judiciary. What do they achieve by demeaning and defaming everything and everybody?
Nobody can take any objection to fight Corruption. Rather, it is every citizen's duty and they have a right to honest and efficient administration. But one can definitely take strong exception to a group of politically ambitious people, who, on the pretext of fighting corruption, are damning and defaming everything and everybody including the democratic institutions. There is all the danger of people losing faith in the democratic qualities of the country!
Last year, Anna Hazare, a little known social worker suddenly occupied the center stage in national politics, for his demand for his version of Jan Lokpal Bill to fight the corruption. He was joined by few retired bureaucrats, well known advocates and some NGOs who styled themselves as the sole representative of the Civil Society named their movement as India Against Corruption. With modern and hi-tech communications spiritedly backed by the media, the IAC gained support among the educated in urban areas. The government too buckled under adverse publicity and Anna's fast. But, the Jan Lokpal Bill remained a dream as the Anna team remained stubborn in their demand of implementing only their version of the Jan Lokpal Bill.
However, as days passed, people realized that Anna Team has other designs and political ambitions. The movement lost its steam particularly after Anna declared that he will campaign against Congress party in the next elections and Kejriwal himself campaigned in Hissar by-election in Haryana. The media too distanced itself from them.
Finally, Kejriwal group showed their true colours by declaring that they will be floating a political party. They are now busy in preparing ground work for the launch of the party in a few days, even though Anna has not shown interest in their political plan. The Kejriwal group’s new slogan is “I am ordinary man and I want Jan Lokpal Bill”. And as run up to the launching of the political party, Kejriwal group has started the build up and grabbing headlines. In fact Kejriwal group wants to project itself as the “only surviving honest people/politicians and the rest are all corrupt and despicable”.
Kejriwal group started to target the leading players in the Indian politics. First it targeted the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi by accusing her son-in-law Robert Vadra of amassing huge wealth in a very short time through questionable means. The Congress panicked and its leaders including Central Ministers vied with one another to defend Vadra. Kejriwal group let the matter rest there.
Few days later, Kejriwal group targeted Central Law Minister Salman Khurshid accusing him of swallowing lakhs, granted from Uttar Pradesh government towards his family trust helping physically challenged. Salman Khurshid strongly rebutted the charges and threatened to sue Kejriwal. And the matter rests there.
A week later, Kejriwal group targeted the BJP National President Nitin Gadkari by accusing him of dubious deals in his business empire. The charges were taken seriously by the media as Gadkari, the BJP president is all set for second term as president with the RSS backing.
The other day, Kejriwal group targeted Mukesh Ambani of Reliance corporate group and accused him of controlling the government especially the petroleum ministry. The group made serious allegation of Mukesh Ambani blackmailing the government by under production of gas, to force the government to hike the procurement price of natural gas by 300 percent! The group also accused both NDA and UPA of promoting the interests of Reliance and Mukesh Ambani. They also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for replacing Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy for having issued a notice for levying a penalty of 7000 crores to the Reliance. They accused the Prime Minister for replacing with Jaipal Reddy with Veerappa Moily only with a view to help Mukesh Ambani.
Whatsoever, what do Kejriwal and company want to achieve by hurling charges against their targets? Interestingly Kejriwal group does not want to take the scams to its logical end. They do not want to approach the courts for probe. They simply want to expose and earn free publicity or perhaps derive political mileage out of it for their political career.
This attitude is a very dangerous trend. If the Kejriwal group continues their hit and run attitude by defaming everything that people hold as hope, it will have disastrous effect on body politic. People will lose faith in every political leader, political parties and other democratic institutions. What more they may even suspect Kejriwal group also as they too have become politicians.
It is time Kejriwal group realises that hit and run attitude towards corruption does not pay any political dividends. They have to realise that mere hurling corruption charges will do no good. They have to prove the charges to gain respectability and credibility. They must not only expose, but, also proceed to get the wrong deeds examined by the appropriate authorities and the criminals penalized. If they do so, then they will be doing a yeoman service to the nation by weeding out corrupt elements from body politic and corporate sector. But the question is, will they do it?
That is all!
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