Even when Arvind Kejriwal began explicitly exposing his core competence of creating chaos and running away from civilized ways of problem solving, his party became very attractive to Medha Patkar. She found a natural ally whose violent and street-fighting manners were only equal to her. The New Delhi sit-in had every sign of Patkar flavour - no justification, no sophistication and no civilization. It was a crudely attempted execution of mob mobilization that fell flat by its own weight. And even in that fall, the wrestler got up and walked away believing that his moustache did not gather dust.
Similarities between Kejriwal and Patkar do not end there. They both are vehemently opposed to national development in the guise of protecting the aam aadmi. They both outwardly oppose foreign influence and investments in the country but have meticulously laid out pipelines to foreign countries for the funds to flow into their coffers. They both have no respect for the judiciary, executive or parliament. They share a vision of democracy, which is just collecting some lumpen elements and creating a furore, terming the misguided mob as democracy. It is interesting that they both squat wherever they want and believe that governance and democracy begins from where they breathe. There is a certain air of authoritarian and dictatorial attitude to both.
But in all such unions of vested interests, the end is disastrous. Kejriwal has to recognize this and should see that his end is near when Medha's hand is in his. Their coming together reminds me of the story of Mohini-Bhasmasura. Here too, the fate would be the same. Mohini will teach Bhasmasura to burn himself to ashes. Kejriwal, who is already playing with fire has had an equally combustible street fighter friend with him now.
We knew that AAP will only be a guest for a few days. But I never knew that they would place fire on their own attire so early in their political career.
V K Saxena
President
NCCL
Ahmedabad
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