Somnath Bharti was wrong, but Kejriwal's motives are noble

Editor’s note: This is a comment we received from one of our readers, Mahesh Sarma, on the article Arvind Kejriwal: From anti-corruption role model to street thug . Apart from some light editing to fix grammar and spelling, the comment has been left as is. I wouldn’t be so quick to castigate Kejriwal so much. Being a card carrying member of the middle class most of us keep quiet, earn our keep and keep our heads low. So we never encounter the police on a day to day basis. [caption id=“attachment_1353097” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Naresh Sharma/Firstpost[/caption] And on the occasions where we do, as in at traffic signals, a few notes exchanges hands and all is well. But Kejriwal does not represent us. The poor, underprivileged, people who live in unauthorized colonies, and who do unauthorized but essential jobs are at the boot tips of the police. The police needs hardly any excuse to beat them up, get into their shanties and terrorize their womenfolk. Kejariwal’s protest is directed towards them, in solidarity with them. We can castigate Bharti for his high handed behavioiur and his pathetic macho act, but to say Kejariwal is an arrogant politician may not be very appropriate. We have a law for the rich and law for the poor. Kajeriwal might be wrong on his tactics. But questioning his commitment may be slightly far fetched.