Arvind Kejriwal should govern Delhi, not weave mischief of a 'killer' Modi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is back at doing what he does best – taking potshots at the Prime Minister. This time the Aam Aadmi Party chief has posted a 9.48-minute video on the YouTube to tell the world that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah are conspiring to murder him so that they could stay in power.[caption id=“attachment_2919394” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Image courtesy PIB[/caption] Most Indians would loathe to hear and ponder over what the Delhi chief minister broadcasted on the internet against his country’s PM but Kejriwal as usual is playing both victim and hero. Victim because, he claims to be constantly on the receiving end of a conspiracy unleashed through the Income Tax, Delhi Police and CBI and hero, because he and only he has the guts to fight a tyrannical Modi regime at the Centre. He presents himself to be the only hope of the people and thus Modi wants to eliminate him and his party leaders. Towards the end of his around 10-minute long video message to his supporters, Kejriwal claims, albeit without naming Modi but with clear references to him and Shah that its time all AAP leaders and workers should talk to their family and be prepared for Kurbani (sacrifice): “Ye kisi bhi had tak ja sakte hain. hume marwa sakte hain, mujhe bhi marwa sakte hain. Kuch bhi kar sakte hain. (They can stoop to any kind of low. They can get us killed, even I could be killed. They can do anything).” Going to jail is a small thing. Be prepared to risk your life and therefore you need to talk to your family for larger sacrifice." He then adds that if the workers are prepared to lay their life for the cause as propounded by him then they should remain with him, else pack their bags from politics and the party.

Mind you, this comes from Delhi chief minister, who has 67 MLAs out of total strength of 70 in the Delhi Assembly and aspires to become Prime Minister of the country in the near future. He had earlier termed PM Modi as a “psychopath” and “coward” and kept on telling the world that Modi was so obsessed with him that 24x7 his only occupation was to conspire against him and AAP. But this time around Kejriwal has crossed all limits of propriety in a federal set up, virtually saying that the Prime Minister of India was actually a criminal of worst order who would turn into a murderer, killing a chief minister and other rivals just to hold on power. Kejriwal begins making his statement by saying that 10 MLAs of his party have been arrested, another one was raided by the Income Tax department, one MP suspended from Parliament and 21 MLAs face possible disqualification under provisions of office of profit. He calls it a daman ka chakra (cycle of atrocities) where daily juthe-sachhe (false-true) cases were registered because PM Modi and Amit Shah were masterminding and directing Income Tax, Delhi Police and CBI to go after AAP. While listing these cases and claiming them all to be conspiracies, he forgets one of the first arrests, his law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, who was booked in a fake degree case and later proved that he not only had procured fake degrees but also was part of a racket. Former law minister and MLA Somnath Bhati was booked because his wife filed a complaint against him for domestic violence. It could be argued that police could have shown restraint in some other cases but by make a sweeping generalisation Kejriwal is not helping his party. In any case, Kejriwal these days is mostly out of Delhi campaigning for the party in other states and has virtually become an absentee chief minister. The Delhi government runs in his name but does Kejriwal have intent to run the government is big question. His time and energy is mostly spent on negative energy, counter a self-created Modi phobia. If one believes Kejriwal then he has moles in the inner decision making group of Modi, who keep on informing him of the PM’s thoughts and his next move against the AAP chief. “Insiders” tell him that these days Modi is very angry and deeply hassled. He then gives provides an answer as to why Modi is angry and hassled – because Modi feels threatened by his good work in Delhi, he has not reconciled to his defeat in Delhi and feels threatened by AAP’s rising tide in Punjab, Goa and Gujarat. He then attempts to explain the motive (as prosecution needs to attach a motive to a crime, real or perceived) as to why Modi would want to have him and other party leaders eliminated. Kejriwal claims that since Modi has failed on all fronts and all sections of the society — students, traders, farmers, SCs, STs and so on — are very angry with him, he has no hopes of retaining power through democratic process. So the only other option left before Modi and Shah is to eliminate his potential challengers. Congress and other regional parties have been effectively crushed and it is only Kejriwal who has the courage and conviction to stand against him and in the process be his only threat. Sometime back Kejriwal’s men had made it a big issue, even calling a threat to life, when one of erstwhile AAP member, 26-year-old Bhawna Arora had thrown ink at him. But now things have gone to an entirely new tangent. Delhi needs governance from him. He need not be paranoid about his security. One would like to believe that security agencies are competent enough to provide security to a serving chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.