The media’s gung-ho over AAP’s principles on VVIP culture was omnipresent more than appreciating the historic announcement of anti-corruption initiatives. Poor media, I can understand how their feeble wisdom teeth got submerged by the infamous corporate-political nexus!
Almost all the mainstream channels and newspapers have waged a war against Kejriwal post Ajay Makan’s tweet on VVIP. Nothing could have been a better OPPORTUNITY than this for the 4th pillar of democracy for making usual ballyhoo and questioning the Delhi Chief Minister’s credibility on his “principles” and “core values”. Add to the apathy, the ousted rebels like Bhusan, Yogendra and Anand have been given a wide footage for puking their venom, adding fuel to the fire. More than entertaining viewers, it was soothing many media stakeholders and corrupt politicians. Intently, the objective is to inculcate a sense of regret among Delihites for mandating a wrong party in Delhi.
More than questioning the credibility of Arvind, media should check their journalists’ instincts if they are showing off the “sponsored scripts” drafted by corporates and politicians, basically the stakeholders? It’s not shrouded in mystery that politicians and corporates stake a higher percentage both in print and TV including, but not limited to NDTV, India TV, CNBC, India News Network 18, Zee News, Bennett Coleman, NewsX, Deccan Herald and Hindustan Times. The political and corporate nexus together controls the media and their content.
To me, they are NO longer the 4th pillar of democracy, but Social Media’ certainly is, which is more transparent offering a platform for a participatory democracy without any seared conscience of political and corporate nexus.
Beyond an ounce of doubt, the mutineers’ call for a Swaraj Samwad on 14, April 2015 would be given a very high footage that does not require me to answer WHY. Those who are holding Swaraj Samwad, they may likely to use it as a “political stethoscope” to gauge the temperature that would possibly decide them to go with either forming a new alternative political party, or continue to shed paroxysm of tears.
Who are mostly supporting Yadav, Bhusan and Anand? Obviously, not the masses, but predominantly a section of teachers, journalists, theoreticians, populists and academicians, primarily due to a common factor of “like mindedness”. History has witnessed that academicians and theoreticians had never been successful when a mass politics is lumpenized. Our former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (an academician) did not win a Lok Sabha seat. Of late, Professor Anand Kumar lost the NE Delhi seat to BJP’s Manoj Tiwari in 2014. Yadav won with a meager margin of votes when he contested the Gurgaon seat in Lok Sabha elections, but lost his deposit and finished fourth. Bhushan never fought an election. Social activist Medha Patekar lost deposits in Maharashtra. In my opinion, in a competitive political race of a multi-party system, the people’s icon, not the so-called moral pedagogues win, do they?
I have a few questions for those who play this dubious game misleading the movement to use it for gratifying their personal political greed. They must answer, or I’m open for a constructive debate whichever they like:
- Why have the so-called ‘moral judges’ made Kejriwal its mascot and innovated a slogan – ‘PaanchSaalKejriwal’? WHY NOT “PaanchSaalYogendra Yadav” or “Bhusan” or “Anand”?
- Why the election was fought surrounding a personality cult of Arvind?
- Who went to Tihar and sat on an indefinite fast? Who struggled with the heat, mosquitoes on first day in Tihar? Did Arvind accept the court’s decision to furnish a personal bond for his release or Yogendra Yadav?
- Who was beaten ruthlessly by police? Who became a victim of several conspiracies plotted by political-corporate nexus?
- Whose face was blackened with ink? Who slept on the platform or on the streets?
6. Who faced the ignominy of Lok Sabha’s defeat? - Who was personally attacked by the opposition parties during the Assembly election in Delhi?
- Who is still facing the flak from political and corporate media?
“Agni Path” is not mere a word to be updated poetically on social media. The one who has passed through ‘agni path’ knows what it really stands for. Populism, principles and idealism matter, but what matters more is a “leader” capable of a ruthless real politics. And, I must say, it requires “Arvind” to transform AAP from a party of intellect to a party of mass connect.
