Kejriwal gives hope, to the nation as well as humanity. A meteoric rise indeed yet there may be many years when he finally arrives
unless of course all poll predictions go wrong that they may and he emerges
from the shadows to occupy the throne of Hastinapur.
A former civil servant whose
better half still serves the national government and for one who still resides in accommodation
provided by the very sarkar he seeks to replace, his guts are indeed
amazing and therefore the slight tinge of envy in many of us who would love to be
in his boots yet do not have the courage, integrity or the commitment to be so.
His incessant battle against the
establishment and also the anti establishment is against all odds, yet
a battle that he is fighting with gumption. For his cause is right and
intentions noble and this is what really matters when one is fighting for righteousness. Perhaps his integrity and commitment to the cause is
what gives him the strength to keep on fighting what appears to be a one sided battle. This reminds us of the Mahabharata,
the epic battle between the kauravas and the pandavas, the battle between the
right and the wrong, between evil and goodness where despite heavy odds the pandavas won and in the process gave eternal hope to the people of Bharatvarsh.
“Ekalo Chalo Re”is his slogan and
perhaps the right and the only way when the odds are stacked almost to the
level of being regarded as impossible. It is always only one man who can take
an organization, a state or a nation forward. Gandhi dressed in the barest of
attires amidst a sea of immaculately attired adversaries achieved for this
nation what even massive armies would fail in. Truth was his only weapon and
renunciation of ego his biggest attribute yet he achieved what till the very end appeared almost impossible.
Arvind Kejriwal is not a Gandhi,
but the closest to Gandhi that the nation has got so far. His battle is for a
cause that is right, though his means are more direct and do not totally abjure
violence. India is not China or Egypt or Syria where the masses have sufficient
inner conviction to move out on the streets and face bullets for a cause, yet many
people have often come out at his call, not sufficient enough to cause an
uprising, yet sufficient enough to create a nationalistic fervor.
The nation is staring at the toughest electoral fights in its history. The battles are bound to be severe and maybe violent at
times as patna has recently displayed yet the thought that nectar emerges only
after a massive churning exercise has kept the nation moving forward in search of good
governance, something that we have missed in the first sixty seven years of existence
of an independent yet not a free nation.
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