Dear Mr Kejriwal

Dear Mr Kejriwal

Sir,

Since you were writing so many letters to so many people with so many concerns.I as a not so "aam aadmi" ask you few simple questions.

What should I do to convince my dad who is a communist by ideologue and a judge by profession to clear doubts about you and your party? He raises the following questions.

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1)He says that all the political movements which started with an ideologue like yours eventually ended into something which is nowhere close to its earliest starting point.For instance the JP movement culminated into multiple parties who have no clear ideologue and contest people with all types of shortfalls in elections viz corrupts, criminals, dynastic,castists et al. Even the communists are very divided and unclear.With your party not having a clear ideologue on many issues why should someone vote for you?

2)He says that you might be the most honest person in your party and many others in your party are deemed to be honest.But what about everybody in your party,the members,the people who are giving you donations,the people who would vote for you??.You say that a Lokpal will change everything.He says that corruption is so deeply rooted in our mindsets that its not merely systemic but its in the Indian psyche inherited from our ancestors.How would you improve the morals of Indians?How would mere bringing a Lok pal change the whole scene of corruption ?Keeping in mind that Lokpal is mainly to deal with corrupt govt servants, how would you punish the corrupt businessmen who don't pay taxes,the traveller who boards a train without a ticket,the street vendor who is ready to pay a bribe in order to stand on a crowded chowk,the common man who litters on the streets,the person who is ready to pay more so that he can book his ticket quickly? Don't you think according to you standards even a Tatkal is a hitch for common man.??He says its not always about punishment and fear ..many a times its about mentality and culture.

3)He is too apprehensive about the complaining nature of you and your party members.While he is used to complaint cases in his profession,he thinks mere complaining and not having a proper backup of evidence proves useful only for buying time and not on the ground and in the courts.What would you do to really tab up the corrupts?How would you change the criminal justice system which lacks everything??There is scarcity of resources,there is scarcity of policemen,there is scarcity of judges,there are complexities and bottlenecks in the system.How would mere complaining bring the change or even a Lokpal as an institution single handedly change everything?

4)You talk about Mohalla Sabhas and people participation in day to day decision making of their areas.Don't you think it might prove a havoc.?Suppose if a ward/mohalla decides to build a drain which is ought to affect an adjacent mohalla as well,who would be the final decision making authority?Sometimes giving everything in the hand of Janta might lead to delays and litigation in courts? There are specialists and people who have been elected by the Junta who can very well work with the people. But to give the whole decision making thing into the hands of the Janta might not be useful.As it might lead to the neglect of the minority interest in that area and might lead to further systemic complexity and wastage of time.He thinks there are enough institutions in our country and we should work to improve them rather than putting in more institutions and more complexity.Don't you think our constitution makers would have included every aspect of Gandhian Swaraj at the word go if it had been feasible??Whats your take on this ??

5)He is apprehensive about govt servants,social activists,journalists joining your party.While he says there is a need to have people with diverse backgrounds in politics.He also says that its sending a wrong signal to the dedicated govt servants,activists,journalists.How is your party different from others when soon to retire govt servants are joining politics through your platform, isn't it opportunist?Aren't social activists joining your cause in a way divulging from the interest of the people they are involved with?

6)He says that while you are raising the issue of gas prices and corruption why are you not raising environmental issues,issues pertaining to pollution,science and technology,space? Is it because they don't garner media attention?.While the letters written by you to the stalwarts of big political parties contains very important issues, there are other important issues than corruption as well which these stalwarts do not raise in their speeches.Are you not acting in the same way as these and others media mongers do?

7)He says that you talk about democratization in politics and political parties.How is your party different from others when you are choosing people for standing in the national elections merely on the basis of the decision of your political committee?? Don't you have a way to involve people in that decision making?This is not much different from other political parties.What are you going to do to bring transparency and democracy within political parties.??

While I used to be a staunch AAP supporter from the word go and to an extent I will still vote for them in the national elections.I have had enough doubts raised and I echo many thoughts of my father.Even my maid says now"Mera zindagi toh jhaadoo lagaate hi beeta hai is baar jhaado lagaane se kucch hoga kya??"

Hope you people have answers to these questions and you bring in real change in this country.

Regards

A not so "aam admi"

PS:Its my fathers questions in my own words and few questions of my own and this has nothing to with BJP or Congress in any way :)