Arvind Kejriwal opts for jail over bail in libel case

Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on May 21, 2014 sought to drum up drama and sympathy by refusing to furnish a bail bond of Rs. 10,000 in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari and chose instead to go to jail. In the evening, around 100 AAP supporters attempted to heighten the drama by staging a vociferous protest against the arrest outside Tihar Jail prompting Delhi Police to impose Section 144 in the area. Some AAP supporters were also arrested for violating the prohibitory orders. Kejriwal had included Gadkari in the party’s list of India’s most corrupt was sent to judicial custody by a trail court when he refused bail. The court said Kejriwal can’t seek differential treatment to be let off on an oral undertaking in violation of the settled practice regarding bail. The court remanded him to custody till May 23 with the observation that Kejriwal’s stubbornness can’t be tolerated at the cost of throwing legal procedures to the winds, said Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha. The court reminded Kejriwal that the offence of defamation under section 500 of the IPC was bailable but despite this when Kejriwal refused to seek bail, the court ordered him to be taken into custody. AAP is set to challenge the court order on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. The Patiala House court on May 21, 2014, sent Kejriwal to two-day judicial custody in...

Black Flags to Arvind Kejriwal also

Should we call it as irony of fate or paid back in the same coin? Arvind Kejriwal, the revolutionary Aam Aadmi Party leader had to encounter black flags at Faridabad in the beginning of his Haryana road shows. Purushotam Dagar, the AAP candidate of Faridabad parliamentary constituency and Arvind Kejriwal had started the procession from Sector 37 market. It is apparently an agitation of the local people who had vouched against any form of political party, but it is yet to be unraveled, who triggered the gun. There are some people in the country who strictly dislike politics. Anna Hazare had come to the limelight because of his uncompromising stance against corruption and many eminent personalities stood by him as he could maintain a distance from all political parties. The history of growth of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP are well cherished. When the people started thinking the horrible outcome of such civic society movements, the local people of Faridabad could exhibit their guts to show resilience to political parties. India has witnessed Arvind Kejriwal to lead a demonstration in the street against the center even during his tenure as Chief Minister. We know Arvind Kejriwal had organized many such black flags in the past, but ironically the Faridabad people paid him back in the same coin. Such showcase of black flags might not have sent Arvind Kejriwal and his party AAP on the back foot, but it may be termed as the tips of the iceberg of what is going inside the party supporters and...

Arvind Kejriwal’s Mumbai visit

It seems that Arvind Kejriwal is the only personality in Indian politics who can give Narendra Modi and his NDA a run for their money and Lok Sabha seats. Though the clear line of distinction seems to be that Modi has a lot to show for his claims in the political realm especially the futuristic growth curves in Gujarat while Kejriwal only has a failed governance. Yet it seems people have been attracted to Kejriwal all through India as he generates hope for the people who have been crushed by the innumerable cases of corruption that has punched the UPA-II reign. Kejriwal knows how to put his cards on the table and address the people but he is yet to learn the difference of raising a revolt campaign and running a government from an elected seat. Mumbaikars were granted a chance to see him live for never has the Indian political scene witnessed such a meteoric rise and dramatic downfall of any party in its history. The Mumbaikars did not miss it for anything and watched him in great numbers as the Aam Aadmi Party boss traveled in an auto. Kejriwal’s acts again brought traffic to a standstill in Mumbai thus enraging the common man that too on an otherwise ordinary working day. However it seems the general thought among the masses that had accumulated was to wave and salute a man who is being brave enough to take on the established political parties in India. Kejriwal was accompanied by the party candidate for Mumbai South former banker Meera Sanyal and Medha Patkar, the activist and party candidate from Mumbai North...

Arvind Kejriwal left the battle front

Astute, ruthlessly ambitious Arvind Kejriwal perhaps has been aiming for the sky. His eventful stint in the political firmament for a couple of weeks will raise acrimonious debates even in future. Perhaps Arvind Kejriwal tends to forget that political career is a truly roller-coaster that often bestow high praise on the leader, but also can become equally rude to bluntly throw him out of the fence, when the time comes. If he is credited with changing the face of politics with the buzzword of anti-corruption drive, the youngest Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal has found him at the center of many a controversy in one of the shortest possible tenure. His exit has been as dramatic as his entry in the Chief Minister’s office. The oratory confidence or uncompromising stance against corruption cannot transform one leader of opposition to the Chief Minister – true to its definition, Arvind Kejriwal has also proved that he is fickle, fictitious and inconsistent. Arvidn Kejriwal on his resignation has received many accolades like glib-talker, liar, gimmick-driven politician and many others from the oppositions and also various corners. The purported recommendation for dissolution the Delhi government seems to be quiet untenable. Arvind Kejriwals’ quit is just a political gamble that the country has been watching over decades. The Jon Lokpal or Lokpal had been just an excuse. It was obvious for his government to suffer a defeat in the assembly house as Congress and BJP had clearly disagreement on the bill, which had not been approved by the center. Arvind Kejriwal had been acclaimed and criticized due to his various stunning decisions. Free Water Supply or Reduction of Electricity prices have received garlands and his protests on the street have received brickbats. He has attacked Congress, BJP and even Jung on various issues. His minister’s unruly behavior to the foreign ladies has raised eyebrows, so as his endeavor to protect the concerned minister. His FIR against Mukesh Ambani or Petroleum minister should not be treated in isolation in case of gimmick-driven politicians like Arvind Kejriwal. The mockery is that Arvind Kejriwal believes to be only an anarchist, where any democratic governmental system demands evolution of changes from within. The reaction of the mass remains the most burning questions at this stage as Arvind Kejriwal has decided his party to contest in around 300 seats in the General Election 2014. The future can only unravel whether Delhi people will keep on their support for the Arvind Kejriwal or withdraw the support to the drama-driven...

Arvind Kejriwal lifts the siege

The ridiculous siege in the heart of the capital of the country India has been lifted by the ruling Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, offering a shy of relief to the city dwellers, Delhi Administration and also the police force. It is an unprecedented protest which the country has never witnessed in the past, whereby the Chief Minister is spending nights on the street. The decision of sending the two accused police officers had been the fig-leaf for Arvind Kejriwal, who has emerged as the face of new horizon in Indian political firmament. Their key demand of handing over the Delhi police to the state government has been ignored for obvious reasons. Arvind Kejriwal knows it better that he rules a state that hosts the parliament and Rashtrapati Bhavan. He has been blessed with millions of votes of Delhi citizens for his commitment to wipe out corruption by broom stick, but his sensational protests are adequate to dismay his invaluable voters, who aspires systematic governmental and administrative...