Kejriwal Follows Modi-Model Vote Catching And Succeeds

By Ok Raveendran

Arvind Kejriwal appears to have come of age as a politician. The Delhi chief minister is outwardly taking a web page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ebook to talk the identical language, identical content material and put on the identical demeanor.  He must be given credit score for his evaluation that Modi’s language strikes a chord with the lots. He has solely put himself in the identical sneakers.

Within the early a part of his profession, Kejriwal used to assault Narendra Modi for no matter he did and mentioned. However in the end of time, he realized the folly, and at occasions paying a heavy value for it. Within the course of, he appeared to have realized the spirit of the saying ‘in the event you can’t combat your enemy, be part of him’. He’s now doing simply that: adopting Modi’s personal fashion and strategy. In fact, by way of political combat, Modi and his BJP should be on the alternative facet.

A few of Kejriwal’s latest remarks can simply move off as these of Modi. The contents of a few of his speeches can simply be blended up with speeches of Modi with out compromising both the movement or the import of what’s sought to be conveyed. Kejriwal’s election marketing campaign, significantly outdoors of Delhi, can also be strikingly comparable, aside from the safety detailing of the prime minister, which is each pompous in addition to fool-proof.

There may be each chance that Kejriwal’s newest name for a ‘Bharatiya schooling system’ might be confused with Modi’s personal views on the topic. Talking at a gathering with dad and mom and lecturers at Vadodara as a part of his election marketing campaign in Gujarat, the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) chief mentioned that India ought to change into a vacation spot for college kids from everywhere in the world, like Nalanda College was once in historical occasions. Modi has typically spoken about India reclaiming its place because the data capital of the world.

“The whole system of schooling was left to us by the British. It’s the system Macaulay ready within the 1830s in order that we might serve them by changing into clerks. I respect all freedom fighters, however when the nation attained independence, we should always have ready a brand new system of schooling for impartial India by abolishing the outdated British schooling system,” Kejriwal mentioned.“College students from the world over got here to check at Nalanda College in historical India….In the present day our college students are going overseas,” he added.

The politician-turned former IRS officer kicked off his Gujarat marketing campaign, in typical Modi fashion, by visiting and praying on the well-known Dwarkadhish temple in Devbhumi Dwarka district.  The Delhi chief minister additionally Kejriwal visited Surat within the night to participate in ‘aarti’ at a Ganesh pandal, arrange outdoors the social gathering’s workplace within the Seemada Naka space and named ‘AAP Ka Raja’.

Kejriwal utilized his new system within the Punjab meeting elections, which AAP received convincingly and has since change into a template for adoption in different elements of the nation. He successfully performed the Hindu card the place it mattered, and reaped the advantages. Whereas campaigning in Ludhiana, he raked up the sense of fear among the many Hindus and merchants of the state by pointing to the prime minister’s safety lapse. The truth is, his assertion evoked sharp reactions from the Sikhs and Dalits in addition to a bit of the Hindus themselves.

Whereas campaigning in Uttarakhand, the AAP chief had declared that his social gathering would make the hill state the non secular capital of the world for Hindus if it got here to energy within the state. He additionally projected Col Ajay Kothiyal, who performed a key function within the reconstruction of Kedarnath after the devastating floods, as his social gathering’s chief ministerial face for the state. Uttarakhand being a Hindu majority state, Kejriwal was clearly taking part in the Hindu card in addition to pandering to the ex-servicemen’s vote financial institution.

The Aam Aadmi Occasion can, of late, be seen to make deliberate makes an attempt to shed its pro-Muslim picture by taking part in the Hindu card. The truth is, his stoic silence and failure to denounce the anti-Muslim slogans raised at a Jantar Mantar rally had even prompted pro-Muslim twitter activists to explain the Delhi chief minister as a ‘Sanghi’.

His new ‘strategy’ has prompted eyebrows to go up among the many liberal public opinion, which had all alongside supported the AAP political philosophy. However for Kejriwal and his social gathering, like everybody else, what issues most is the vote financial institution and never philosophy. (IPA Service)

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