Why’s Arvind Kejriwal silent about the massive loot of banks by large and small businessmen and politicians?
Arvind Kejriwal is, without doubt, one of the sharpest minds on the political scene today. His guerrilla tactics of destabilising established power centres has won him an impressive victory in Delhi and his anarchist ways and disregard for rules has only increased his following among disenchanted Indians who want change at any cost. His followers are uninterested in facts and details. So, if one asks Mr Kejriwal why target Mukesh Ambani alone and remain silent about others, he could well argue that he will do what he can and it is for others to take up the rest.
He has probably calculated that training his guns on public-private partnerships in bijlee and paani will yield better political dividends than issues that do not affect the aam aadmi directly, or are less catchy. But even taking all these calculations into account, one cannot help wondering why Mr Kejriwal is silent about the biggest source of the loot of public money and the watering hole of all dubious capitalists—the frightening amount of bad loans run up by public sector banks.
In this context, one also wonders about the silence on the Rs7,000-crore largesse, in the guise of corporate debt restructuring, handed to ‘pepper spray’ Rajagopal, the founder of the flying Lanco group, who has run up huge losses and gets bank funding with ease. There is similar silence about Vijay Mallya of Kingfisher Airways, who also owed Rs7,000 crore to Indian banks. One could list many more who are not in AAP’s crosshairs. But one can’t help wondering why they are not.
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His only objective is to gain popularity at any cost by announcing controversial statements. To raise issue is one thing and to offer effective solution is entirely different ball game. Delhi voters have already understood his game and I am sure other voters across India will show him the correct place in 2014.
“The Indian Aam Aadmi has asserted his right to make his voice heard, thanks to the conduit provided by AAP. Let us not compel AAP to show the results they apparently promised. Now, it is the turn of the common man(Famously referred to as “WE THE PEOPLE” in the preamble of the Constitution of India) to organise, wherever they are, and force the legislature, executive and the judiciary at all levels to uphold the spirit of the Constitution and bring back ethics and morality to governance.
If Aam Aadmi and the BPL(Businessmen-Politician-Lawyers) Combine which is managing the show in Delhi take the message sent out by AAP through the medium of broomstick seriously, and act in a proactive manner, during the short period left for Elections, 2014, several stages of pre-stabilisation experiments of India Growth Story can be skipped. Here, all political parties(Right, Left and Centre) have a responsibility to participate. Time is running out.”
Mr. Raju Parulekar, a senior marathi journalist has been exposing 'Saint' Kejriwal.
It is all there for all to see on Mr. Raju Parulekar's twitter account.