This content was originally posted by: charminggenie
Actually I differ here, they should focus on the two parties a little later, for now work towards providing basic facilities and improving the ground realities of Delhi If they heckle on the Cong/BJP now , they will sound all too negative.
Agree with the part about focusing on opponents later and focusing on governance first. Unfortunately Mr Kejriwal sems to be oversensitive to any dissent voiced by the public or media. So far it has influenced his decision to form the govt with support from the Congress, drop his earlier choice of accommodation, to re-think his candidature for LS, and now with the growing dissent voiced by the opposition regarding the delay or soft atitude in taking the Congress to task for alleged cases of corruptions, Mr Kejriwal has declared that he would do just that within 4 days! He has a penchant for self imposed deadlines!
I doubt in 21 days you can take concrete steps against the ex-govt or the present Municipal bodies. it's like asking them to jump the procedure and protocol and act urgently. How to we expect clean governance after 21 days is what surprises me. Hype or not this is unfair on our part, give them atleast 6 months and another Assembly session, read what bills they have passed , before we create a judgement. I wonder if other newly elected govts are also scrutinized the same way?
Its true that the AAP is under undue scrutiny which is unfair but it is Kejriwal himself who keeps coming up with seemingly impossible self imposed and self declared deadlines.
See in this context I researched and read a bit, I stand firm on the wrong steps taken by the Law Minister and he should apologize unconditionally but then when you hear the region's RWA and their months long complaint about the sex/drug racket and no action taken by the police , you do wonder what is the Delhi CM suppose to do. He is the face of Police, even if he doesn't have control over it. Not justifying but really what alternative is left with the govt? Should they not have Police under them like in other states .
Genie, what the law minister did amounts to taking the law in his own hands. An example of the powerful wanting immediate results irrespective of the lawful procedures that need to be heeded. Its the narco division or a special task force that handles cases dealing with drugs. The members who go to conduct such raids are carefully searched /frisked to rule out any possibility of their planting drugs at the site of raid. This necessary precaution was blown away when the law minister and his motley crowd took it upon themselves to conduct a raid and punish the suspected wrongdoers! It sets up a dangerous precedent.!
Nope they were then and now demanding the same thing - Police under state govt which has been requested since 2004. If we listen to Arvind , there is no difference of narrative, he says if people complain to my office over Law ministry about a nuisance and no police action is taken after months, what "legal" power do I have to solve them, should I not demand and mount pressure for these powers. I doubt any party in Delhi will disagree with this. We should never read too much about election narratives , they are fought on totally different perspective. If we continue to live in ti , we will overlook the bigger picture.
Sheila Dixit's govt had been making the same demand for the police to be under the ambit of State govt. But that had not stopped the AAP from holding her accountable for the police inaction. Moreover, there are some genuine concerns regarding placing the police under state govt as it could pose some security concerns in the event of different government at the Centre and the State and it needs some in depth deliberations. No quick fix solutions there! The CM could have mounted pressure at a senior level by legal means . Taking recourse to vigilantism and mob culture is unacceptable in a civil society. Midnight raids into anyones house on mere suspicion, arresting a female at night , beating her, conducting the search by unprofessionals, the racial abuses that the suspects were subjected to, inciting an unruly mob - all constitute breach of law and the law minister could rightly find himself behind bars.
The bigger picture is cleaner politics but not by encouraging lawlessness.
I give them the grace period of 6 months when I have given years and decades to to the other National parties. One thing is for sure , they have stirred and shaken the Indian Politics, shift in how every political party is trying to connect with the people and the voter feels more closer to Indian politics. I like that. They may fail or they may stay but surely the focus would be on their slogan on "anti-corruption" and clean politics.To have a more sustained impact it is essential for the AAP to survive and retain the voter's confidence. Immature and hasty decisions could be its undoing and also of the hopes that people have pinned on them.
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