Very few in the country are at all aware that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is a master of quantum computation. As recently as October 17, he gave the world a glimpse of his expertise in this formidable computing method that will define tomorrow's human existence. Speaking to a crowd of pensioners of the erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board, he first disclosed that "80% of IAS officers don't work"; then, as the waves of quantum computation surged in his inner brain, he corrected himself and said that "90% of IAS officers don't work."
It's not possible for ordinary mortals like us to understand the complexity of quantum computation that Kejriwal carries out to work out amazing figures. We have a personal mundane request to make to Kejriwal: could he please tell us who are the 10-20 percent officers who actually work in his government? If he furnishes us the list, we may be more than pleased to publish it on our website.
For years, Kejriwal has been working hard at appearing the most generous leader ever born. Of course, with taxpayers' money, not his own. Yet all the money that he squanders has not really helped him win new friends, much less retain old one. His reckless indulgence in blame game has alienated his once fragile and vaporous support base that has come to view him as a man who is not qualified to handle power. And Aam Admi Party's dismal performance in the last assembly elections in Punjab and Goa demonstrated that the people had begun to see through the ambitious self-serving design of Kejriwal and won't trust him with power much before political analysts could figure that out.
Kejriwal is his own worst enemy. Immediately after winning a landslide victory in Delhi elections a couple of years ago, he set out on a perilous course to pitch the street power against the establishment. One may have not much compunction in admitting that Delhi's establishment may be rotten and corrupt to the core. But one can argue - and now it's proven by the vapid failure of Kejriwal's sinister program - that the street power is hardly a smart instrument to clear out corruption from Town Hall and Delhi government's various departments. After an initial lull, corruption is back in the corridors of Delhi government with vengeance.
Failures make normal human beings reflect, revise, and work out different action plans in the hope of succeeding. Really successful people don't blame others or the situations for their failure. They begin with admitting that there has been something wrong in their planning. That requires intellectual humility. And losers are losers because they are unable or unwilling or both to cultivate this quality. As an old adage goes " a bad workman always fights with his tools."
So has been Kejriwal.
First, he began with fighting the central government. True to his nature and ability, he called the PM of India by names only the hate mongers like Islamists and their left-secular collaborators have been using against Narendra Modi. In the process, he badly disrupted the working relationship between the central and state governments to the detriment of the latter. And the ordinary citizens of Delhi had to bear the brunt of his politics.
In the month of April last year,