Why communalism is bigger issue than graft for Kejriwal?

Why communalism is bigger issue than graft for Kejriwal?
Updated 31 March 2014
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Why communalism is bigger issue than graft for Kejriwal?

Why communalism is bigger issue than graft for Kejriwal?

Arvind Kejriwal formed Aam Aadmi Party to encash the growing anger of the public against the corruption, which was witnessed during the Anna Movement.
The huge crowd that was seen at Ramlila Maidan, India Gate and Jantar Mantar tempted Kejriwal and his trusted associates to taste the fruit of the politics as it was widely perceived by them that if they do not form a political party at this juncture, the entire benefit of this movement will be hijacked by the main opposition party BJP.
With these thoughts, Kejriwal and his party AAP contested the Delhi Assembly Elections shouting everywhere that he wants to fight against corruption and Shiela Dikshit will be sent to jail after his party comes to power in Delhi. Another major promise was that he would bring a Janlokpal Bill in Delhi.
Initially neither people nor other political parties took any of these promises made by Kejriwal seriously and if his party was able to win 28 seats in Delhi Assembly, it was only because that people of Delhi believed that Kejriwal and his party would do something to eradicate the corruption and provide a clean and effective governance.
What actually happened in his 49-day rule in Delhi has become that part of history, which people will like to forget. Sending Shiela Dikshit to jail based on the 370-page document was not a practicable thing, as we have seen that she has already been appointed as the governor of Kerala, which provides her immunity from all types of prosecutions.
Similarly, when Parliament has already passed the Lokpal Bill (whether it is acceptable to AAP or not is another debate), there is no point in making a false promise that another Lokpal under a new name — “Janlokpal” will be passed by the Delhi Government. Delhi already has a Lokayukt Act, which was brought by the BJP when it was in power in Delhi.
States can only have “Lokayukts” and not “Lokpals.” Public is unfortunately not aware of these fine legal complexities and is carried away by what Kejriwal promised him. The whole thing was messed up in a manner, which enabled Kejriwal to quit the Delhi Government after 49 days to start the work on his dream project of “Mission Lok Sabha 2014.”
During his brief stint, Kejirwal was criticized for his failure to rule a small state like Delhi. This criticism further angered Kejriwal who was the darling of the media and not used to such type of criticism.
He was also caught red handed on a YouTube video wherein he was trying to fix his interview with a senior TV journalist.
By now, Kejriwal understood well that he couldn’t fight the Lok Sabha elections on the issue of “corruption” because of two reasons. First, he and his party did nothing to eradicate corruption in 49 days and people were of the view that he formed the government with Congress and in return allowed Shiela Dikshit to escape to Raj Bhawan of Kerala.
Since Kejriwal is a man in a hurry, without wasting any further time, he junked the issue of “corruption” and started saying everywhere that “communalism” is a bigger issue than “corruption” and in fact, he intends to fight this “communalism” first.
Kejriwal must have thought that the corruption is an issue only with the urban middle class, which is in any case is divided and his party will not get 100 percent urban middle class votes. On the contrary, if he raises the issue of “communalism,” he will get minority vote and support, which is most likely to be undivided and he may get near 100 percent support from minority voters.
Whosoever wants to project himself as the fighter against communalism, has nothing to do, but to start criticizing Narendra Modi and his work is almost done. That is what Kejriwal is doing. Whether he will succeed in his designs — only time will tell.