After Kejriwal's recent multiple exposé of misappropriate assets and sources of income of people associated, directly or indirectly, to the major politics parties of India, it struck me -
Kejriwal's aspires to don the avatar of the change-maker of the country, pretty much on the lines of the movie Nayak - The Real Hero.
See, in the movie, Anil Kapoor plays the character of an ambitious TV camera man, Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, who accepts a challenge by the chief minister of Maharashtra to run the state for one day.
Don't agree? Look at the similarities.
In the movie, Shivaji is a cameraman with a leading news channel and is asked specifically to conduct the interview with the corrupt CM. Here, throughout the Lokpal bill and other protests, Kejriwal took on the PM and his cabinet of minsters head on. Also, the web is full of tweets and posts from people like you and me stating the obvious- Kejriwal is more of a journalist than a politician.
Where's the filmi angle to all this? Arrey, just like the big players of Bollywood, he too has taken a panga with a 'Salman' (Khurshid). No wonder he has received a 'murder threats' off late!
So, all in all, Kejriwal posits the role of the Nayak of Indian politics. I don't know if he'll ever be a part of the ruling party but at this point of time I can't help but wonder what it'd be like.
(Information sources: http://www.imdb.com, http://en.wikipedia.org)
Kejriwal's aspires to don the avatar of the change-maker of the country, pretty much on the lines of the movie Nayak - The Real Hero.
See, in the movie, Anil Kapoor plays the character of an ambitious TV camera man, Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, who accepts a challenge by the chief minister of Maharashtra to run the state for one day.
Don't agree? Look at the similarities.
In the movie, Shivaji is a cameraman with a leading news channel and is asked specifically to conduct the interview with the corrupt CM. Here, throughout the Lokpal bill and other protests, Kejriwal took on the PM and his cabinet of minsters head on. Also, the web is full of tweets and posts from people like you and me stating the obvious- Kejriwal is more of a journalist than a politician.
The movie depicts Shivaji being challenged by the CM to take up his job for a day and experience the problems of ruling a state himself. Kejriwal, on being poked and prodded repeatedly during his protests with Anna, decided to set up a political party of his own.
On becoming the chief minister, Shivaji brings about lots of improvements and quickly becomes an idol in the people’s eyes. In the present scenario, Kejriwal is no less than a hero for a lot of Indians who believe in his ability to bring about the necessary changes.
In addition, Shivaji's actions prompt the leaders of political parties to join hands against him. Going by the rate at which Kejriwal is publicizing our politicians as ek hi thaili ke chatte-batte, I won't be surprised if Congress, BJP etc. do the same.
Where's the filmi angle to all this? Arrey, just like the big players of Bollywood, he too has taken a panga with a 'Salman' (Khurshid). No wonder he has received a 'murder threats' off late!
So, all in all, Kejriwal posits the role of the Nayak of Indian politics. I don't know if he'll ever be a part of the ruling party but at this point of time I can't help but wonder what it'd be like.
(Information sources: http://www.imdb.com, http://en.wikipedia.org)
Arvind Keiriwal is not "Nayak"; he is a man with motivation to hack off corruption, but its being driven by people's movement. To be more precise - he is not going and investigating the corruption cases nor he has units to get investigation done(once Lok Pal bill is in place may be he can play some role), as of now the material he is getting is from journalist who are afraid to publish it in news papers or the politically motivated candidates leaking the information - either of these wont help achieve what India needs now.
ReplyDeleteIndia needs a strong lok pal - but with todays jurisdiction too we can get a lot of things done to prevent corruption. But the ideal situation what India would need is every citizen with strong morals - if all of us just do our jobs honestly we dont need any policies and any specific laws (yes this is an umbrella statement but this is what is required).
Even with Lok pal bill can you prevent auto walas not charge more, can you stop harassment of women/domestic violence, can you stop hatred between communities, can you stop discrimination? If we keep on implementing laws for each of this - we will end up with just laws defining our lives[which again would be required to change because people will find loopholes].
All i can say at the end of the day is we need to strengthen the educational institutes (which are night now focused only on getting jobs and less learning and self awareness) and for me TeachforIndia campaign is more valuable and impacting than the IAC(India against corruption).
Appreciate the comment and your involvement with the topic.
ReplyDeleteWhat I was trying to convey through this post is how Kejriwal has taken on a considerable share of the responsibility to pursue what Anna Hazare and comrades set out to achieve in the first place. The reason behind identifying him as a 'Nayak' was largely based on his willingness to lead from the front, and altering his path keeping in mind the surroundings.
You have very rightly said that any change requires engagement/commitment of the aam junta. And any change on such a massive scale essentiates a leader, possibly Kejriwal in this case. This is not an effort to campaign/promote his party or beliefs that may as well lead our country towards a positive change, but a step towards recognizing one.