AAP is all pretension and hypocrisy
It’s just the same as other parties.
AAP freely accepted huge donations in black money. To buttress the charge, photocopies of four bank pay drafts of Rs 50 lakh each were brandished at a press conference in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections. It was black money which AAP had arranged to have deposited in its bank-account after getting the same turned into bank drafts, they had claimed. Having allegedly accepted Rs 2 crore in cash from a couple of donors, the AAP set about making it appear licit political funding, it was claimed.
But should you be surprised? We think not. For, Kejriwal has all along been dubious. He joined government service, never put in an honest day’s work, drawing full pay and perks while doing “social work” with a Ford Foundation-funded NGO and getting paid a substantial sum as “out-of-pocket expenses”. As a social worker, he used someone else’s car, while saving his own money.
When he quit government on becoming a politician, he left without paying nearly Rs 7 lakh, which he had owed it. Again, someone else paid that money for him, though it was his own personal debt. We can go on and on in the same vein. Suffice it to say that he is as worldly-wise as they come. In fact, the AAP boss is neither honest nor democratic. A highly ambitious man, he can do everything which conventional politicians do plus more for the sake of power.
Incidentally, last year following the leak of e-mails of a business group, a couple of journalists were made to resign when it was discovered that they had used the car and/or guesthouse of the said business house for a couple of days. But Kejriwal is honest, though he used someone else’s car and relied on others to pay his personal debt. A case of clear double standards, isn’t it? at stake should caste-based preferences continue to distort the selection process indefinitely. The case in point is that of the recent IAS “topper”. Curiously, though Tina Dabi barely got 50-odd per cent marks overall, yet she was the topper in this year’s allIndia civil services exam. But what is not widely known is that she had failed in the preliminary exam, but using the reservation route still succeeded in sitting for the main examination. However, what has really rankled a number of aspirants who could not pass the prestigious exam despite having done far better than Dabi in both preliminaries and mains is that she is a third-generation beneficiary of reservations. Her grandfather got into the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research using the reservation route. So did her father in the Indian Telecom Service. Ditto for her mother who joined the Indian Engineering Service through the SC quota. Also, wonder what will remain of the once muchvaunted steel frame of India if candidates with barely 50% marks can emerge toppers in the IAS. Of course, no sensible person can question the need for affirmative action for the traditionally disadvantaged groups, but to extend it indefinitely is bound to render the system ineffective, especially when they are now insisting on reservations in promotions as well. Merit cannot be sacrificed fully at the altar of political expediency.