What does a CM do? What are his roles and responsibilities? What is his Dharma? keeping the legal, constitutional definition aside, my intention is to think about what are the answers to these questions in the context of contemporary times, with respect to the people of Delhi, and with respect to Arvind Kejriwal - The Anarchist CM.
Anarchy is the word being used to describe the Aam Aadmi party's Dharna and their ways of getting their points across , right from the opposition to the media, everyone is using this word, and the AAP is not getting any respite from any corner. We have to understand one thing here, AAP's idea, inception, and rise to power has been full of Anarchist flavours, so their governance being Anarchic should hardly be of any surprise.
The people of Delhi voted them into power knowing very well, being impressed by even, their anarchic and disruptive nature. You can't buy a ticket for a Rohit Shetty entertainer and expect an Anurag Kashyap epic when you enter the theatre. I know its not as simple as that, a CM is supposed to have some responsibility towards governance, but he is also entitled to his own police force, otherwise how can he assure safety to his people, and the fact that he takes to such unprecedented,extreme (anarchic some might say) measures to ensure his Dharma should be taken in a positive light instead of aspersions being cast against him. At least he is ready to ask the tough questions and fight for them in these times, instead of using them as an excuse for his government's inefficiency.
A Dharna is his way to express the frustration and helplessness that any one of us will feel if we were in his place. He cannot turn away from his Dharma and shirk the responsibility away by completely blaming the central government. In the previous Delhi governments, this precise problem was a perfect excuse to respond to most law and order problems, and everyone said how convenient it is for Sheilaji not to own up to anything and not even do anything about it except to write a letter to the Home minister once in a while!.
There is also the argument of all the disturbance and inconvenience being caused to the real "Aam Aadmi" by these protests. How four metro stations are blocked and how the republic day preparations are being affected. Like somebody very rightly said, if you want to build flyovers you have to bear with the inconveniences that come with its construction. The "Aam Aadmi" needs to ask this question to himself, is he ready to feel some inconvenience right now to cherish the fruits of the flyover in the future.
I just feel, something had to be done, there a very many such issues facing Delhi right now, and all of them need to be taken up, need to be addressed, just like some of these issues would require deep thought, wisdom, fresh new ideas in terms of governance, others would require extreme, aggressive steps that many may call anarchist. It is for us, for each one of us to contemplate, how can we get things done in this country, have letters to ministers ever achieved anything here? we shout out loud only when people don't listen to us, and how the centre responds to the CM's Dharna will tell us if he is shouting at deaf ears or not.
Let's just hope that someday the Delhi phoenix rises from these anarchist ashes.
The people of Delhi voted them into power knowing very well, being impressed by even, their anarchic and disruptive nature. You can't buy a ticket for a Rohit Shetty entertainer and expect an Anurag Kashyap epic when you enter the theatre. I know its not as simple as that, a CM is supposed to have some responsibility towards governance, but he is also entitled to his own police force, otherwise how can he assure safety to his people, and the fact that he takes to such unprecedented,extreme (anarchic some might say) measures to ensure his Dharma should be taken in a positive light instead of aspersions being cast against him. At least he is ready to ask the tough questions and fight for them in these times, instead of using them as an excuse for his government's inefficiency.
A Dharna is his way to express the frustration and helplessness that any one of us will feel if we were in his place. He cannot turn away from his Dharma and shirk the responsibility away by completely blaming the central government. In the previous Delhi governments, this precise problem was a perfect excuse to respond to most law and order problems, and everyone said how convenient it is for Sheilaji not to own up to anything and not even do anything about it except to write a letter to the Home minister once in a while!.
There is also the argument of all the disturbance and inconvenience being caused to the real "Aam Aadmi" by these protests. How four metro stations are blocked and how the republic day preparations are being affected. Like somebody very rightly said, if you want to build flyovers you have to bear with the inconveniences that come with its construction. The "Aam Aadmi" needs to ask this question to himself, is he ready to feel some inconvenience right now to cherish the fruits of the flyover in the future.
I just feel, something had to be done, there a very many such issues facing Delhi right now, and all of them need to be taken up, need to be addressed, just like some of these issues would require deep thought, wisdom, fresh new ideas in terms of governance, others would require extreme, aggressive steps that many may call anarchist. It is for us, for each one of us to contemplate, how can we get things done in this country, have letters to ministers ever achieved anything here? we shout out loud only when people don't listen to us, and how the centre responds to the CM's Dharna will tell us if he is shouting at deaf ears or not.
Let's just hope that someday the Delhi phoenix rises from these anarchist ashes.
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