If the AAP continues with the likes of Bharti and Vishwas, while sidelining the likes of Prashant Bhushan, Kejriwal does a huge disservice to his own movement, which promised the rebirth of progressive politics in India. And this is to Kejriwal himself: I personally am very disappointed with whatever transpired in the last few days. Especially the dharna, which I can only see as a very shameless and thinly veiled attempt to protect a racist among your rank. I for one had thought that your movement would become perhaps a game changer in our political culture, but it turns out to be nothing but cheap populism and ideological hypocrisy. When you held your dharna, you claimed that your main aim was to bring the Delhi Police under the Delhi Government – a goal which we support. But you have raised your dharna without any commitment from the Centre on this supposedly central demand! Instead, you raised the dharna following disciplinary action against two SHOs including the Malviya Nagar SHO. It’s quite apparent to us here that the dharna’s aim was not police reform or accountability of the police – but to embolden your Minister and penalise the police officer who refused to cooperate with his racist raid. You personally claimed that the Ugandan High Commission had written approving of Mr Bharti’s raid. Did you bother to verify the veracity of the letter before using it to try and cloak your Minister’s racism with a facade of approval from the Ugandan Government?
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:53:52 +0000
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