The expected announcement of the first freebie from the Arvind Kejriwal government has come. Every household in Delhi with a metered water connection will receive 666 liters of water supply free per day. He and his cohorts will tackle the electricity tariff next. What is interesting is the universal acclamation by the media to the announcements.
Even the media houses which usually patch up an editorial questioning the freebie policies of other state governments have muted their response. The people of Delhi will soon come to their senses when they realise that all these freebies would have to be paid for by the taxpayers, and not those occupying the unauthorised colonies. The non-tax paying poor, who are the squatters of those colonies would grow weary of the Kejriwal gang even sooner, once they realise that these hoi-polloi do not have the magic wand they crave.
These matters should be of concern only to the people of Delhi. The rest of us can sit back and watch as the people of Delhi try to rectify the mess they have voted for in the state elections. What is of more interest to a political watcher is the Kejriwal gang has adopted tactics closely patterned on the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia.
(image courtesy manjul.com)
Once the Bolsheviks were successful in the putsch, they quickly organised street level committees to bring Petrograd under their control. Arvind Kejriwal has proposed to form 2700 ‘Mohalla committees’. These Mohalla Committees will decide on area specific development plans. In effect, people from colonies and slums will decide on the alignment of a highway or flyover, or even starting an industry.
Another favourite tactic of the Bolsheviks, at first, was to decide on the course of action based on instant referendum. Kejriwal had already pulled that trick when he flamboyantly put out 25 lakh questionnaires on whether he should form the government. That drama was within days of the election results where the people of Delhi created the mess by voting AAP to the 2nd position in the house.
Kejriwal and his AAP gang have made thinly veiled threat about going after corrupt politicians and officers. They have already instituted some measures like drop-boxes, and special telephone and SMS numbers to report corruption. This drama was enacted for the public consumption while dedicated Anti-Corruption departments and numbers already do exist.
Lenin fell out with Trotsky once his purpose was served. Have you heard of a mentor and anti-corruption crusader called Anna Hazare?
Oh! People of Delhi, what have you done?
My intrigued half interjects, ‘If Kejriwal names his Anti Corruption Committees as “Extraordinary Commission for Combating Profiteering and Corruption”, called CHEKA in 1917, it will be proof that India has a full blooded Bolshevik Chief Minister for the first time.’
Even the media houses which usually patch up an editorial questioning the freebie policies of other state governments have muted their response. The people of Delhi will soon come to their senses when they realise that all these freebies would have to be paid for by the taxpayers, and not those occupying the unauthorised colonies. The non-tax paying poor, who are the squatters of those colonies would grow weary of the Kejriwal gang even sooner, once they realise that these hoi-polloi do not have the magic wand they crave.
These matters should be of concern only to the people of Delhi. The rest of us can sit back and watch as the people of Delhi try to rectify the mess they have voted for in the state elections. What is of more interest to a political watcher is the Kejriwal gang has adopted tactics closely patterned on the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia.
(image courtesy manjul.com)
Once the Bolsheviks were successful in the putsch, they quickly organised street level committees to bring Petrograd under their control. Arvind Kejriwal has proposed to form 2700 ‘Mohalla committees’. These Mohalla Committees will decide on area specific development plans. In effect, people from colonies and slums will decide on the alignment of a highway or flyover, or even starting an industry.
Another favourite tactic of the Bolsheviks, at first, was to decide on the course of action based on instant referendum. Kejriwal had already pulled that trick when he flamboyantly put out 25 lakh questionnaires on whether he should form the government. That drama was within days of the election results where the people of Delhi created the mess by voting AAP to the 2nd position in the house.
Kejriwal and his AAP gang have made thinly veiled threat about going after corrupt politicians and officers. They have already instituted some measures like drop-boxes, and special telephone and SMS numbers to report corruption. This drama was enacted for the public consumption while dedicated Anti-Corruption departments and numbers already do exist.
Lenin fell out with Trotsky once his purpose was served. Have you heard of a mentor and anti-corruption crusader called Anna Hazare?
Oh! People of Delhi, what have you done?
My intrigued half interjects, ‘If Kejriwal names his Anti Corruption Committees as “Extraordinary Commission for Combating Profiteering and Corruption”, called CHEKA in 1917, it will be proof that India has a full blooded Bolshevik Chief Minister for the first time.’
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