Lines from a Tina Turner classic - What’s love got to with
it can read like this!
(Modified!)
What’s AAP got to do with it do with it?
What's AAP got to do, got to do with it
What's AAP but a burnt out emotion
What's AAP got to do, got to do with it
Who needs an AAP when a hope can be broken?
Yes, hope it is we all had of a political party born of an impeccable
non-political lineage. It would be different, it would be for us, of us and by
us the people. All other political parties including the current ruling one was
of them, by them and for them - thier power, their money their votes, their
prestige. All of them hid behind the
politically correct fig leaves of Nationalism, Secularism and development as
per their wont!
Corruption was on their agenda - Sorry , prevention of
Corruption was on their agenda, but it was another fig leaf - otherwise nothing explains the scams of the
UPA and the reluctance of the NDA to institutionalise and provide for an
independent the CBI and appoint a Lokpal - which the Supreme Court said was an
"eminently workable legislation". Both the established political
parties screamed for it when the India Against Corruption movement was at its
peak, but seem silent ever since their own power objectives were achieved..
From the ashes of corruption was born an anti-corruption
political party - One that promised to be different in more ways than one.
Imagine winning 67 out of 70 seats in an assembly election - It was hope at
work - hope of people who felt abandoned by everyone - and mind you of all
economic strata, across all ethnic divides.
Finally someone cared. But all
hope was belied within two years.
True Delhi is a half-baked state - where the chief minister
is more a fall guy rather than a chief minister. Hemmed in by the Centre, the
Delhi Police and the MCD - all run by people whose objectives are not the same
as that of the Delhi government in the present circumstance, life was difficult
for the AAP Chief and Chief Minister.
However if you play your cards right, hold a moral upper hand and be
seen striving to improve the lot of people then the populace is forgiving. The
AAP chief had it all on a platter - all he needed to do was walk the talk
albeit in difficult circumstances - he had no real power, he had beaten a goliath
to the winning post and would not be forgiven - yet he could have used all his
goodwill and persuasive powers to do the needful to win their confidence.
But he went of the formula circuit. There were many things
he didn’t do right - from alienating his original team from the moral high
ground of ethical politics – the Bushans, Yadav, Illmi, Bedi, other well-wishers, including Anna Hazare his
mentor and guide when at the peak of his popularity to taking decisions that
alienated the centre, the municipality and the people. Shoot and scoot press conferences and
allegations only made it worse. Once a darling of the electronic media, now
they all railed against him, each one trying to outdo the other in bringing him
to the media book!
What went wrong? None of us, other than the players in this
saga will know the real story, and if we do we will have our perspective of
what played out behind closed doors. But as time passed AAP lost its mojo and
with it the media support. That was key. Was the media won over by the Centre
or did the AAAP lose the media? Difficult to say though I have a feeling that
the answer tilts towards the former...but AAP only added to its woes by failing
to walk the talk. Once won over the
media was waiting for a chance to bite and they got a chance almost on a daily
basis. You could sense the fatigue in
its spokespersons, and gradually even their big guns went silent. The latest
bribery allegations were just another nail in the coffin, probably the biggest
one. Now all they can do is prove that that those allegations were false, and
they do not seem to be doing a good job of it.
For us the common man, what’s left is despair, where once
there was hope
What’s AAP got to do with it do with it?
What's AAP got to do, got to do with it
What's AAP but a burnt out emotion
What's AAP got to do, got to do with it
Who needs an AAP when a hope can be broken?
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