Chapter 1 - Twilight
For me, AAP is like the girl you adored in school even when she was not pretty, and later she flips you when she becomes this hot chick when puberty kicks in and sleeps with the badass of the college and does nasty things. As much gay as it may sound but I have had a love-hate relationship with Kejriwal. It all started when IAC was still budding and holding anti corruption rallies in metro cities. Not the big Freedom park, Ramlila maidan type ones, these were little known then. That was when I first saw her...err.. joined the rally. I dragged my lazy ass out of my bed at 7 am on a Saturday to join some 80-100 folks and took it to the streets shouting slogans in Kannada. The movement picked up pace with Anna Hazare's anshan and so forth. And then slowly I started losing faith, interest and hope in what was to come in the near future.
Chapter 2 - Eclipse
It started with IAC holding the the government ransom to their version of the bill. And then the long scuffle on whether the PM should be included in the purview of Lokpal or not. All the three parties involved the Govt, Opposition and IAC made sure that the Bill is not passed. A couple of more hunger strikes later AAP was born the incorruptible party, for the common man which will bring poorna swaraj. Though I was skeptical about the idea of activists entering into politics, I still had hope that this is for the better.
Chapter 3 - New Moon
AAP swelled ranks with all the newly agitated educated youth who had no clue what should a government be doing other than being non corrupt. There were rallies,charity shows by music bands,protests to garner support. AAP fielded its candidates in all the constituencies in Delhi. Soon began the three-way allegations, mud slinging and name calling. The black day in Delhi's political history will be observed when Raghu from Roadies campaigned for AAP and called the other candidate Haramzade. How awesome is it that the crowd was awed by the messaiah who preached women equality on his show by calling one behen and madar chod. Kejriwal said "we will form the government and show you how it is run". Promises were made like any other party makes, cheaper electricity, water,gas and I guess cheaper Dhoom 3 tickets too. The 90%(Katju quotient) voters went ga ga and bowed to their savior. I too wanted to see AAP to power and show how a good a state can be administered. But I was afraid that if it wins it would want more. One can never be satisfied with the power one has. Everyone wants more, thats what Pepsi has taught us all these years. I was afraid that they would go national and might destabilize the economy with their immaturity and I was not overly optimistic about their freebie idealogy as well. I just wanted that there is a stable government other than the UPA at the centre. I dint care about who the new PM may be as long as he can speak more words than a 3 year old ( or 3^4 year old, tht MMS age 81->you see what I did here). Gods were kind and instead of a majority to AAP, the elections resulted in a hung assembly. Finally AAP formed the government with outside support of Congress' support after a never before publicity gimmick- The SMS elections. AK backtracked his "I will not take support of Congress or BJP, we will sit in the opposition" and followed the mandate the people of New Delhi(read anyone with a cell phone across the globe). .
Chapter 4 - Breaking Dawn I
Heart-broken, my love turned to hatred. And it keeps piling on as each day of AAP in government passes. The decisions they have taken in hase and keeping 2014 elections in mind are extremely disappointing. The word FREE brought back Sharman Joshi back from coma so it was not surprising to see the people of Delhi cheering every subsidy Mr. AK had to offer. Katju coefficient was again empirically proved when people on the Internet, Media, middle class cheered puny publicity stunts like no security, no bungalow, no cars etc.. Austerity became the new "Reservations" which none of the political parties can ignore, even though it makes no difference. With the announcement to go national and contest 2014 general elections my worst fear has come true. With the insensible comments by AAP leaders on Kashmir & Reservations it has proven that it has no clue how a country can be run. It just strengthens the fact that activists running the government is just going to fuck everything up. How ideal would it had been, had they taken their time and molded their idealogies from being activists to administrators and then contested 2019. With the increasing fiscal deficit, weakening Rupee, and huge debt payments due from 2014 onwards, a non corrupt populist government is going to embarrass India on the world stage. So far what AAP has done is like any other political party, it has been populist and opportunistic. It just couldnt control its hormones.
Chapter 5 - Breaking Dawn II
This is not fucking Twilight that it would always end well. In all likelihood with media finding its new found love Kejriwal, AAP can definitely play a spoilsport in the future of the country. Sometimes good things at bad times do more harm than good. Hopefully due to some divine intervention, sense will prevail and we would have a stable government winning majority in 2014 and its not AAP. Hopefully people give more value to what Kiran Bedi thinks than Aamir Khan. Hopefully Prashant Bhushan speaks a lot more. Hopefully, the 10% kick some sense into some of the 90%.
Note: I have intentionally not written much about the specifics of the crappy insensible decisions, publicity gimmicks that AAP has been involved as it is a good long list even though it is just less than a month in govt. Also it is being widely discussed across the social media.
