AAP: Unconscionable Vigilantism
An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister, Somnath Bharti, attempted to intimidate Delhi Police into raiding a residence where some Ugandan nationals lived by alleging that they ran a drug trafficking and prostitution ring. However, the police deemed the demand illegal and refused to conduct a raid on a residence without a court-issued search warrant. Law prohibits questioning a woman after 6:00 p.m. unless there is evidence of a heinous crime.
However, neither the AAP minister nor its vigilantes were dissuaded. Accompanied by hooligans affiliated with the party, they ambushed a taxi in which four Ugandan women arrived past midnight. They called the women prostitutes and drug addicts and held them captive inside the taxi for more than three hours. The terrified and defenseless women were assaulted, bruised, groped, and sexually molested by the party men, who also uttered racist slurs, stereotyped blacks as criminals, and warned them to leave India. AAP vigilantes humiliated one of the women by forcing her to urinate in full public glare.
The four Ugandan women were forcibly taken to a hospital, cavity searched, and tested for psychotropic substances. It appears that the police, who had initially refused to conduct an illegal raid, eventually caved in to the political bullying and authorized the medical examinations to be conducted. Alternatively, it is possible that the police was convinced of the innocence of the women and authorized a medical examination to falsify the vigilantes’ accusations and build a case against the vigilantes. However, had the police arrested Bharti and the AAP hooligans for acting illegally in the first place, the tragedy would’ve been averted.
The prestigious Mayo Clinic proceedings report that urine sample-based psychotropic tests detect ingestion of a wide range of drugs such as amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, and opiates over the past several days. The four women, who had been traumatized and abused by the AAP vigilantes for several hours, tested negative for psychotropic substances. In other words, the charges leveled against them were false and the women aren’t drug addicts as alleged. The vigilantes had assaulted, abused, and sexually molested the women without basis.
Arvind Kejriwal didn’t apologize to the traumatized women for the illegal and despicable conduct of his minister and party men. He didn’t initiate any legal action against the vigilantes. Instead, he shielded and defended them. He accused the Delhi Police of collusion with the criminals, demanded the suspension of the police officers who refused to conduct the illegal raid, and has threatened to launch an agitation. However, the Delhi Police chiefrefuted Kejriwal’s charges and insisted that his officers had followed the law. He also endorsed an impartial inquiry.
One needn’t doubt that India’s politicians and police often side with, shield, and refuse to act against the criminals and corrupt. Kejriwal’s conduct itself testifies to this. During the election campaign, he accused the former chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, of indulging in rampant corruption and promised to prosecute her. However, after he came to power, he made a U-turn and denied that there is any evidence that she was corrupt even though the 772-page CAG Audit Report on XIXth Commonwealth Games 2010(Report No. 6 of 2011-12) indicts Dikshit on several charges of corruption. Therefore, Kejriwal is effectively shielding the corrupt Dikshit. One need not doubt that many police officers emulate Kejriwal’s example to shield the criminals.
However, in this case, there is no prima facie evidence that the four Ugandan women had committed any crime. Medical tests have falsified the charge leveled by the AAP vigilantes against these women. This incident should alarm a reasonable person for several reasons:
- Kejriwal has made a show of creating hotlines where the public could report grievances. He encourages the public to record video or audio that would bolster their case and promises to act on their complaint. Why didn’t the AAP activists follow their own prescription and report the alleged drug trafficking and prostitution ring on the grievance hotline? They could’ve easily taken a video clipping with their mobile phones to support their complaint. Or, should one infer that only vigilantism and hooliganism would follow whenever the public call the grievance hotline?
- AAP insists on going to the public to mobilize opinion. Kejriwal did that when he constituted government with Congress support. Assuming that the Ugandans were indeed running a drug trafficking and prostitution ring, and that the police were in cahoots with them, AAP could’ve taken the case to the public. A video clipping to support this allegation would’ve swayed public opinion and made it impossible for the police to avoid taking action. Why was this not done? Or, is it possible that the AAP minister and hooligans launched this attack to evict the Ugandans on some pretext to help the real estate mafia?
- If reasonable people tolerate vigilantism, it would come back to haunt them. Let us not forget that many young women, who work in call centers and software companies, return home late. Many young women may also travel with their male colleagues or boyfriends. They may wear a pair of tight jeans or saree low on their waist. They may enjoy an occasional drink or dance with a beloved one at a wedding party. Do you want self-appointed moral police and vigilantes to call them prostitutes? Do you cherish the prospect of your sister, daughter, or wife being molested and forced to urinate in full public glare merely because some vigilante alleges that she is a prostitute? Do you want her to be illegally detained by hooligans and forced to undergo cavity searches and drug tests? If you do not wish your kith or kin to undergo these travails, you cannot be a silent spectator to the travails of the four Ugandan women.
- Kejriwal has been effectively shielding Sheila Dikshit by refusing to prosecute her for corruption despite a CAG indictment. Should the public take to vigilantism and assault Dikshit and Kejriwal for indulging in corruption and shielding the corrupt respectively? One cannot reform society by indulging in hooliganism and subverting law. Only by streamlining the system can one reform society.
- The dehumanizing of the Ugandan women in this episode on the suspicion that they were prostitutes should shock an empathetic person. A prostitute is a victim of organized crime, exploitation, and human trafficking. She lives under abject conditions and is exposed to AIDS and other lethal diseases. She is unceremoniously discarded when she is no longer young. If she has children, they face social opprobrium. She deserves our sympathy and empathy so that she could be rehabilitated. We cannot tolerate vigilantes stigmatizing, assaulting, molesting, and publicly humiliating her.
One of the abused Ugandan women aptly asked, “There are many Indian people living in Africa but we never ill-treat them the way they (the AAP hooligans) have treated us. Some of the men told us that we are blacks and so we indulge in illegal activities. (…) How can they say all this?” I had made a case for reclaiming the sacred feminine in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya rape tragedy. I would add that the feminine is sacred regardless of the woman’s skin color.
A reasonable person should set aside ideological affiliations and demand justice for the wronged Ugandan women. Molesting a woman is a serious crime. A court judgment urges making it a non-bailable offense. The police should take Bharti into custody for interrogation to determine the identity of the hooligans who molested the women. I do not believe that the local residents were the culprits. Had the Ugandans been criminals who ran a drug trafficking and prostitution ring as alleged, local residents wouldn’t have dared to attack them fearing retaliation. Had the allegations been false, the docile middle class of the neighborhood wouldn’t have found a reason to attack the harmless Ugandans. Therefore, prima facie, it appears that Bharti brought in an organized gang of hooligans in a well-planned assault. Unless Bharti is interrogated, one cannot determine the motive and identify and punish the hooligans.
Kejriwal’s conduct in shielding and defending the molesters is barbaric. His penchant for extra-constitutional methods and craving for publicity have been the catalysts to this barbaric attack. He owes an unconditional apology to the abused women. However, instead of apologizing, a combative Kejriwal persists in defending the culprits. In an interview, instead of admitting that medical tests have vindicated the women and that they were unjustly abused and humiliated, he dishonestly argued that had the women undergone blood tests they would’ve been found guilty.
Why should innocent women be forcibly subject to tests at the insistence of vigilantes? How would Kejriwal feel if a group of vigilantes allege that the Kejriwal residence is a den of drug trafficking and prostitution, illegally force his wife to undergo urine sample-based drug tests, and even after the test results vindicate her, continue to insist that blood tests would’ve found her guilty? What is sauce for the Kejriwal goose is sauce for the Ugandan gander too. A civil society cannot be indifferent when its unscrupulous political leaders unfairly blame the victim. The public has a moral duty to launch a peaceful agitation until justice is served the Ugandan women and the hooligans who assaulted and molested them are punished according to law.
We rallied for Nirbhaya and refused to relent. We will rally for the Ugandan women too.Kalavai Venkat
Kalavai Venkat is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, a practicing orthodox Hindu, and author of the forthcoming book What Every Hindu Should Know About Christianity.
Dangerous Deceptions - Part 4: Punch Drunk Harrys
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014
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(This is a MaxiPost and the final part in the Dangerous Deceptions series – Part-1: The book of love. Part-2: Password: Anti-Hindu. Part-3 Multiplicity.)
If you open the Google homepage for a search there are two buttons below the block for the search text. One is “Search” and the one next to it says “I’m feeling lucky”. The “feeling lucky” comes from an iconic movie of a maverick cop who liked to dispense instant justice and he hated all criminals equally and couldn’t be bothered with courts and trials. Let’s watch the video (3.00 mins)
That punk was lucky there was no bullet left. Harry Callahan aka “Dirty Harry” has been copied, imitated and remade hundreds of times in Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and every place on earth that has woods. Lately we also have politicians who want to deliver instant justice; just like Dirty Harry.
True story: There was a man in a school teaching English and other subjects. He was a million miles from his home-state, a genuinely nice guy and also brave. He once fought thugs, who attacked girls on a school-trip on a train, almost single-handedly. It was hard to believe the guy could also suddenly handle so much violence. One fine day he appeared in starched white Dhoti and Kurta which was shockingly different from the ordinary pants-shirts he wore for about 3 years. When asked about the sudden change in appearance he said he had now become an MLA. Huh? Imagine the shock on everyone’s face. Where? In Bengal! The CPM came to power in 1977 after the Emergency. Turns out this nice gentleman was a naxal on the run and contested elections in absentia and won. I wonder if an underground naxal parading as a school teacher can be called “deception”. His public bio won’t tell you this story. His name is…. Oh wait! On second thoughts maybe I should leave it to you to guess.
The good thing about that Commie is that he didn’t fool or cheat anyone while he was a teacher. Some people not only fool others, they do so while claiming to be public intellectuals and thinking for the best of society. Here’s a gallery of Fiberals with something common among them:
Yeah, you guessed right! These are “Fai Fighters”; the Pak-loving, Free-Kashmir, assorted fake peaceniks and “Useful idiots” of Ghulam Nabi Fai who was arrested by the US Govt for being an ISI stooge. When Fai was arrested these idiots claimed ‘oh we didn’t know; had we known we wouldn’t have attended his anti-India conferences’. What they don’t know and won’t tell you is that Fai had picked these “useful idiots” precisely for their known positions on Kashmir which aren’t friendly for India. Fai had picked them because they had proved themselves to be “idiots” in their own country. They loved the foreign junkets and luxuries as guests of ISI. There’s another motley crew, another bunch of “useful idiots” now roaming the streets of Delhi. Here’s the gallery:
Some of the above are AAP Party founders, some are “I-want-what-you-have” wagon hitchers like Gopinath and Ashutosh; some are professional agitators like Mallika, Medha. And some are Fai-fighters like Chenoy and Bhushan. All of them are “useful idiots” for someone; some of them know it, some don’t. We can only make a fair estimate who their Master is. So I estimate one day, like those Fai idiots, some of these people will say “Oh I didn’t know AAP would turn out like this. I thought they would take us to the Promised Land”. That’s how idiots usually start out to fool others but more importantly, they fool themselves. Events of the past few weeks reminded me what I tweeted on December 12 about dogs chasing cars. The AAP guys simply don’t know what to do now and have turned Delhi into a daily street battle with vigilantes raiding schools and hospitals and ministers raiding imaginary prostitutes.
In the previous part I asked how in the world Commies can even talk about democracy. They are mostly street thugs or good at agitations and when in power they’re bad dictators.Somnath Bharti proved it by chasing some Nigerian women calling them prostitutes and threatening the police to carry out raids without any warrants. The Nigerian women were harassed, their private parts searched and were even racially abused. This is typical Commie-Goonda behaviour. They have now become the same “goondas” that they accused politics was infested with. Somnath is the same guy indicted by a Delhi court for tampering with evidence and he’s the Law Minister. The best part about this crook is he took the media along to his midnight express. The TV scenes of Bharti could have well been from a movie like ‘Gangajal’ with the goonda threatening the police. Punch Drunk!
On the issue of rapes there was a lot more clarity from Arvind Kejriwal. The man campaigned calling Sheila Dikshit “Beimaan” (Dishonest) and even put up posters on Auto rickshaws. But this is what it looks like now:
If it was just political gimmickry that forced AK to make those statements pre-elections that is understandable. Politicians make grand claims for votes. But there is something even more dangerous that AK does that is similar to Bharti’s act. He wants the police to avoid penalising Autos that break rules. He wants Autos to refuse passengers. AK is neither interested in law nor is he interested in protecting women or any citizen. He simply doesn’t know what to do. He forgot that he gladly enjoyed agitating during the Nirbhaya rape incident and mouthing filth against the police, the transport system, the CM and the govt. In my post ‘Broken Windows’ I had tried to explain that bigger crimes start with ignoring small crimes. AK forgets that Nirbhaya happened because an Auto refused to carry her and her friend and they had to walk a bit and finally board that monster bus which was not certified road-worthy. “I am the Lord and my WILL be done”. That’s how AK and his Law Minister are behaving and fool people by repeatedly telling them “we are Aam Aadmi, we live an Aam life” and such bogus crap. AK is the guy who said “Ruling Delhi is not rocket science”. Self-deception!
By now most of their hypocrisies, U-turns and deceptions from the past and the present have become a daily routine. A reader, Sanku Das, points out the shocking amounts due from many AAP members to utility boards and departments. Shazia Ilmi has assets worth 17.45 crores. Look up on other members when you have the time. How AAM are these people? Let’s catch up with some more punch drunk idiots:
There’s the anti-national Kamal Chenoy who wants Hurriyat and others to unite against India. Prashant Bhushan wants the same with a plebiscite and referendum in Kashmir and prefers Kashmir separate from India. He echoes Arundhati Roy. Bhushan also prefers Rahul Gandhi as PM and that’s just a hint. There’s Medha Patkar who has been a nuisance to people and to the law. Apart from that there are issues concerning her funding which is also in the public domain. Almost every prominent person joining AAP seems to have some funding-related bad history. Capt. Gopinath is reported to have defaulted on 500Crs worth of loans and there are reports he still hasn’t paid dues of some former Air Deccan employees. I call him Capt. Topinath. Meera Sanyal told CNN-IBN on January 14 she is in favour of BJP’s economic policies but is against Hindutva so her choice is AAP. That is one small secret that unites all these “useful idiots”. It is important to unite against the “evil” of Hindutva. What is surprising about that, eh? Shekhar Gupta & Co. hounded Kiran Bedi for her petty travel billsbut he never thought it fit to look into the funding of AK & others and their NGOs when the Fords, AID, ASHAs etc. were all in the public domain. That too is a hint.
While in IBN7 Ashutosh said those objecting to Retail FDI are “illiterate” (Imagine this guy calling anyone illiterate; laughable!). He now agrees to AAP’s anti-FDI policy. If, like Ashutosh, other media celebs like Rajdeep, Sagarika, Barkha, Arnab were to join politics just imagine how many flip-flops you would see. Maybe, they’d tell you that was a “journalistic opinion” and this is a “political stand”. That’s why there’s no incentive to trust any word these people say unless it’s just raw news. You know, those “illiterate” leaders that Ashutosh refers to in his tweet are those of the BJP who opposed it. But if it’s because he’s in AAP now or not, Ashutosh has never shown any signs of being literate. Worse, never shown any signs of sound thinking or honest reporting. The AAP deceptions are so many that it will take a whole book to write about each. Here’s another give-away from Manish Sisodia:
Indian Express later withdrew their tweet claiming it was a typo. I don’t accept their nonsense. Someone pointed out that typing “teh” instead of “the” can be a typo. I’d say “Tamish” instead of “Manish” can also be accepted as a typo but surely, even a Sagarika wouldn’t type “anti-BJP” instead of “anti-corruption” as IE claimed. There is another tweet from an AAP member in 2012 which confirms that AAP is anti-BJP although he mentions IAC at that time. By August 2012 IAC was over and done with and AK & Co. were headed for politics. That’s where the kingpin Yogendra Yadav comes in. From the day I saw Yadav on TV (much before AAP or IAC) and heard him talk he has reminded me of Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’. Of course, I must add that his political colleagues and TV friends vouch for him as an honest and genuinely nice guy. But honesty and politics rarely go together.
The first time I saw YY’s involvement in the Lokpal agitation was when he called for AK to end his hunger strike (he probably also ran a signature campaign for ending the fast) in March 2012. A few months later AAP was formed and I learned YY had become a member. I believe YY was perhaps instrumental in this decision. I also believe YY was deputed by the Congress for the AAP formation. After all, YY has long been a Congress sympathiser and also one of those who were “evolving” Rahul Gandhi (read this DNA report). Look closely and you will find the manifesto, political philosophy and “dole culture” of AAP is entirely an YY enterprise. So on January 16 when Vinod Binny made some serious allegations against AK & Co. YY was quick to state it was all a BJP conspiracy. However, Vinod Binny’s allegations were backed by another member, Surinder Singh. So, any criticism by its own members is now a BJP conspiracy for YY. Pretty neat and quite predictable, isn’t it? YY conveniently ignores the fact that Binny was formerly a Congress member.
That brings us to AK, the front-desk, factory and top-management of AAP, all rolled into one. And he has two side-kicks, Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav. I am not sure AK really wanted to be CM. I’m not sure AK even wants to be PM as YY so fondly dreams. The media too has decided AK, with about 21 days experience of CMship and about 10 years of street-agitations, is now a PM candidate to challenge Modi. Oh, they don’t trust that forever-bride Rahul Gandhi anymore. But if you really want to know if a candidate is fit for anything it’s not who he is or what he is that one should look into. What matters is: What’s your story? Anyone who cares knows Narendra Modi’s story but most people haven’t looked deep into AK’s story. Let’s do that now and below is a summary extracted from a history of Arvind Kejriwal. This is his story and I recommend you read the whole long dossier to understand the person and not the position (Emphasis and comments in brackets are mine):
So there you are; a long history of AK’s flip-flops, manipulations, poor accountability for funds in his own NGOs, using and dumping people, changing ideology when convenient and leaving every campaign unfinished. He and AAP have no policies and no vision. They just want to be Dirty Harry dispensing instant justice. Harry still had someone to answer to and had to face bullets. These guys just keep getting more and more brazen in their street justice every day. AAP’s thrill was to announce massive freebies and doles which were not even properly thought through.
The current propeller of AK’s soap opera is none other than Yogendra Yadav who is like being on Congress deputation to AAP. My favourite line for deceivers has been “the mask and make-up of Chachi 420 wasn’t meant to last forever”. This mask and make-up is now peeling away faster than expected. I doubt AK ever wanted to be a CM. He probably wanted to create a revolution and be a high authority like a Lokpal or a CJI (He can’t be CJI though) or the CIC by which he could dispense instant justice, haul anyone before his court and sentence anyone without proper hearing. He wants to play Dirty Harry. The Congress calculations forced him to settle for something less like a CM position. He has used people as “tools” in his public life but for once he has become a tool himself for the Congress. I’m sure his mirror will tell him that. He could have been an honourable public figure doing great service. He chose the evil path and evil always gets defeated in the end.
Punch Drunk is the description of a person showing signs of brain damage and disorientation caused by repeated blows to the head. Punch Drunk is also a British drama model where audience members are free to roam the performance site, which can be as large as a five-story industrial warehouse. They can either follow the performers and themes or simply explore the world of the performance. I guess both definitions apply to AAP’s performance as a party and govt so far.
The guy in the true story is Nikhilanand Sar.
Thats the reason our ancestors says "History repeats and history never lies"
If AAPtards read with their brain open then they will know where they are leading the country to!
Oh Wait! Do they have brain! haha
Very authentic observation I can guarantee that anyone can test your views on MSM by just monitoring their reports. I can see now Daink bhaskar is giving daily front page coverup for RG I rarely find them reporting genuine local news. Irony is that very few peoples do such critical analysis before voting. Moreover, your articles are only published in English so it not hard to expect that very few peoples can able to see the truth.
" heard him talk he has reminded me of Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal"This is too good..... I have had RUM PUNCH but this is a first time i am hearing PUNCH DRUNK... I always love the edition with movies as part of it.
I was watching the NEWS and the news TITLE was "AAM AADMI KI KAAS KABAR"...AAM AADMI is spreading like virus without any anti-dode. Frankly, i dont see light at the end of tunnel.
A simple fact would be, had there been atleast decent chances of Congress party coming to power then folks like Aruna Loy or Yogendra Yadav wouldn't have cared to leave NAC and would have remained at Madamji's feet. In Hindi, we have a great tag for them "Thaali Ke Baigan"..!!
But we got to appreciate Kejriwal for re-enacting "Special 26" in real life where real people are made fools and worst is, even after saying these people, that you are being fooled, they would not believe that they are getting fooled and continue to remain fool.
Good article.
Most of us Indians don’t even know what communism is, to understand how evil this ideology is read http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Hate-Communism/1428263. The MSM will happily call AAP socialists but will not touch the word communists. But don’t you be fooled, they are nothing but hard core commies and we must stop romancing them, rather equate them with Dawood. The Naxals too want to change the system they do it through bullets and AAP has been assigned to do it through the ballot.
The AAP crew (A word used to describe Mafia Gangs) did not expect so many seats in the Delhi elections as Ravi has already pointed out, hence all these irresponsible statements before, during and after the results including the “Bachon Pe Kasam”. Now this is where the BJP made a huge tactical error, instead of forming a government and asking for support on the basis of fighting corruption, Dr Harshvardhan unilaterally announced that he will not form the govt. He fell into AK’s trap of “Jod Tod ka Sarkar”. I am pretty sure that it was a unilateral statement by Dr Harshvardhan because on the night of the result when all other BJP idiots were saying they will take a descion after meeting, this guy comes on national TV and transforms from Harshvardhan to Harishchandra (Shocked the shit out of me).
This is where the commie brigade steps in; they do a deal with the Congress who offer “unconditional” support in return for no prosecution for corruption and no bad mouthing the Congress and most important stopping the MODI juggernaut. The commies make AK risk the lives of his children realising that here is the perfect opportunity to continue the election campaign by being in govt. A drama for counting show of hands is arranged for and they are in power now. They then unleash a slew of populist measures and announce they are now ready for the LOK Sabha elections. The Binny, Bharati and Birla episode was in line with the same campaign mode. That they can even take on their own and shake the system (read cops, schools, and hospitals) for the people and keep the public memory fresh that they were honest. It is a different matter that the cops refused to play ball and Binny was treated as a rebel by the media rather than a crusader. They will continue in this manner, the next thing will be, the repair of the Lokayukt in Delhi. If they manage it, they will become heroes, if they fail they will blame the BJP in opposition. WIN WIN for the commies. Among other things they will wait until just before the code of conduct and start the Sheila investigation when the congress will pull support AAP will get sympathy win a few seats and STOP NAMO (Less messier than an assassination). What they don’t realise is that it is not the BJP that will be hurt it will be the regional parties Congress Clones like Mulayam, Nitish, Laloo Mamta etc. will be wiped out in this election unless AAP self-destructs before that. Either way, it’s a win win for India and all that the BJP morons have to do is continue their positive campaign and not go on every channel for a fixed shouting match.
Even if BJP had gone ahead and formed the Govt. AAP and Congress would have voted them out of any flimsy reason.
What BJP had done is right and their convictions proved right that AAP had no agenda, ideology or action plan to Govern the state, much less the country. The people of India would not have known what creature AAP is and its being part of the Govt had helped common citizens wake up of its agenda of anarchy. Why BJP voters who voted AAP (about 2% are back to BJP fold now), the neutral ones are also thinking and AAp has steadily lost its support in three weeks of 'nautanki' it called Governance AAP style.
This is really amusing---8:30 onwards for the next 5-6 minutes Ashutosh lectures Capt.Gopinath that he should have read the manifesto that AAP is against FDI in retail and should not have joined the party and he (Ashutosh) strongly believe in the philosophy that there should be no FDI in retail.
At 23:40 Kiran Bedi points out that before joining the AAP party, Ashutosh had tweeted that 'All those who oppose FDI in retail are idiots'. He was dumbstruck for sometime.
This is the level of an (ex-)editor.
(* it is well known that will surely happen when BJP with Modi will be at the helm of affairs.) Those times will be worse for India and its gullible people -- nutters.
There we had blind king Dhritarashtra who was not bad or corrupt but had compulsions which stopped him from speaking against the injustice happening right in front of him.
Bhishma, Dronacharya were all great people but they had their compulsions too and they couldn't go against the evil Duryodhana.
Gandhari loved her son and wanted him to be the king. She ignored all his shortcomings.
Duryodhana had the highest fear from Arjuna who was the most skilled warrior among all. Even if Duryodhana had answer to the rest of Pandavas, when it came to Arjuna, he was defenceless.
Duryodhana needed someone from outside the Kauravas clan who could counter the Arjuna factor.
He found the quintessential Aam Aadmi of the times - Karna, and gave him a small kingdom to get him on his side because the main prize was the bigger kingdom of Hastinapur.
Pandavas meanwhile had been living in exile and continuously hounded by Duryodhana during those 12 years. Same as Modi is being hounded for last 12 years by almost everyone in govt. and their mercenaries - media, NGOs, Lawyers, leaders within and outside the party.
Keep it up.
you got it wrong, you got it all wrong. arvind kejriwal is doing exactly what he was told to do and the most-unfortunate part of that is - he is right on that track - sorry to say, but thanks to 'weak - bjp' and extremely - extremely sorry to say - thanks to 'fool-bjp'.
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And there is another important question. With chants of " Arvind kejriwal as PM" , Will now AAP ready to take support of all other corrupt parties (like SP, Congress, DMK, BSP etc). Because frankly, they cannot expect AAP to have more than 20-30 seats. So what is AAP stand on coalition???????????????Are they comfortable aligning with corrupt parties to have Kejriwal as PM?????
I visit your blog so many times a day to see if you have posted a new one! And what an analysis!! As always, I regret that it is accessed and read only by a miniscule minority of Indians, while the vast majority of those are gullible ones, who keep thinking that this AAP and AK are the messiahs who are going to be the saviors and if we lose out this time (Modi I mean) it is going to cost our nation another decade or so, by which time so much of damage would have been already done.
Read carefully.. There is something at the end of the article...
Jayanthi Natarajan said in one of the TV channels that the Congress performance these last ten years was "phenomenal". I think she meant "phenome-null".
Rahul's speech was at the "Talkatora" stadium. Knowing about Rahul's past performances, Siddu apparently was not sure if delegates from Karnataka would "Tadkotara" ('tolerate' in Kannada) Rahul's speeches and would quickly "Talkotara" ('make a stealthy exit' in Kannada) from the venue!
Sonia's glee and facial expressions when listening to Rahul's speech at Talkatora were a hoot! She was grinning from ear to ear and thumping the table like a little child. Yesterday, SONIA was the acronym for "Son's Obnoxious Nonsense I Applaud"! In Kannada there is a saying "Hetta Thayige Heggana Muddu" that translates into "Even a bandicoot is beautiful for the mother who bears it". It was very much on display yesterday.
Situation will be more or less like what was shown in Movie Tango Charlie where Commies pronounce Jamindar Guilty..Watch sequence from 7:55 Minutes to next 2 Minute from the clip which is from same Movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNMEpW8cMjw
Delhi has seen them coming and going - Remember Indira Gandhi's kitchen cabinet? Raj Narayan? H N Bahuguna? H K Surjeet? Amarsingh? now we have this AK.Wait for his AAP to fall flat in 2014 Ls elections.Then wait for his minority govt to be dismissed.then wait to see him sliding in to oblivion.
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I hope you are not suggesting when saying "If we want to change India, someone got to play the game differnet way" that crowds should take law in their own hand. That is what leads to mobs lynching whoever comes in their way.
Excellent article as always.. I am a fan of your article but hardly post comments.. Here i would like add something; which is not related to the topic of discussion; but something relevant..
I see that in the article you have used the word "thug" to denote the anti-social elements. But i have heard in many forums that "thug" was a tribe in North India who opposed British and later they added it to the dictionary that meant "criminal". I see the following definition when i searched in google as well
" a member of a fraternity of professional robbers and murderers in India, suppressed by the British in the 19th century."
So don't you think we Indians should start using a different word to describe the "anti-social elements"?
It is becoming increasingly amusing to watch the growing uneasiness in behaviour of Arvind Kejriwal for past few days. Here are some points which I think we must understand :
1) A few days back there was a panel discussion on Timesnow where Mrs Anjali Damaniya from AAP commented that most of people joining AAP from Maharashtra are from BJP & NCP ! Although this statement is completely crap, It seems she was giving an indirect message to Congress that they are still working on the Congress plan to divide BJP votes.
2) During an interview with Burka Dutt Mr Arvind Kejriwal challenged Congress to remove their support while claiming he is working on Common Wealth files & will prosecute Congress leaders. This is a clear 2 point strategy where they are claiming they do not want Congress support while in reality they are sending signals to Congress that AAP is their only hope in trying to divide BJP votes in some cities.
3) In the end, Mr Arvind Kejriwal's only hope is to achieve martyrdom by resigning in April claiming that Congress is not allowing it to work properly & Congress denying all these charges. Congress feels it can benefit by AAP martyrdom by actually diverting a few gullible BJP voters in Delhi to AAP.
it seems you have gone complete blind in aap-bhakti. get your eyes checked or rather get you mind checked immediately at some reputed hospital near you.
and just do not - read carefully - just do not forget to take some aap-minister along with you - one more reminder - media persons along with camera - must - why ?
don't you know lot of corruption in hospitals as well - you can have great pictures & videos of your ministers shouting at those ' corrupt - doctors'. sorry, but one more reminder - do it 'late at night as late as possible' - after all - aap-ministers at available only late at night and naturally - it will have more impact and then as a 'fundamental right' the entire 'aap-govt.' along with 'God - Kejriwal' can sit at 'dharna' this time along with you for you as always.
great going – aap-bhakts
special regards to you