Dear Arvind,

I don’t know whether you are aware or not but you have taken several attempts at committing your political suicide. Latest one is your apology to Bikram Singh Majithia. India has seen rise and fall of several leaders and your personal demise in the Indian political hardly matters but the sins you have committed are much bigger than you can imagine. You have literally killed the hopes of a generation. You have forced many revolutionaries of our generation to chose best among the worst. You are a murderer of a generation’s hope Arvind and it gives a lot of pain to many of your die-hard fans. You are like the first crush of many Indian youth who even after getting betrayed by you think that may be some day you will become old Arvind Kejriwal and they will unite with you.

You have taken the final step towards your political suicide. Because of your suicidal steps AAP is now just a regional party of Delhi and mark my words (लिख के ले लो) you will become really insignificant by next assembly elections of Delhi. The Party, the Movement which was all set to throw the traditional establishments out of the India, has been marginalized to a regional party and soon it will also vanish.

I hope you read this and do something good for the nation before dying a sad death from Indian politics.

Let me first remind you how you took the movement and yourself closer and closer to death. Below are some of your suicide attempts in latest order:

1.) Your Meek Surrender to Majithia

When you apologized to Majithia, one of the journalist who used to be your fan wrote “five years down the down, with an uncharacteristic apology to Majithia, that ‘Kejriwal’ brand of politics has changed“. You have lost most ardent of fans of yours with this decision.

Do you even realize what damage you cause to the Party and its volunteers/members? Did you realize what face AAP MLAs will have in front of their people from which they sought votes by saying they will fight with the likes of Majithia? This step of yours dismantled the Punjab unit and has left them faceless in front of the people of Punjab.

If you believe even 1% in real democracy, don’t you think before taking any such decision at least Punjab unit should have been consulted? Have your ever heard of the words like bravery, sacrifice and courage? People are ashamed that they thought of you as a courageous leader. Do you even know that there are so many volunteers who are facing police cases since IAC days? They are facing their cases bravely but you apologized like a coward.

2.) Your Very Famous 2G Scam

You had the option to send 3 Rajya Sabha MPs from Delhi. You could have sent any 3 original AAP members who could have raised the voice of people in Rajya Sabha. Let me give you the list of available options which you could have opted:

Ashutosh

Atishi

Dilip Pandey

Raghav Chaddha

Kumar Vishwas

Ashish Khetan

Meera Sanyal

You know that there are many more. Even if you don’t like Kumar Vishwas, you can’t deny that he is an excellent communicator and he could have brought lots of publicity by his speeches in Rajya Sabha which could have helped AAP. But let’s accept that your personal problem with Kumar is so much that you could not have selected him even then you had several other good options.

But you opted for 2Gs. Even a kid will understand Arvind that this was a clear deal. When you give ticket to someone who joined you just few days back from Congress, then it is evident that some kind of deal took place. In order to raise funds for the party to fight future elections you forgot that we had won when we didn’t have money and we had defeated the powers who had mighty money power.

How can you be so stupid to think that you can fight and win any elections on money power? Winning elections with money is traditional party’s forte, you can’t defeat them on their turf. Your USP was the honesty, conviction, courage of mad volunteers like us. But you sold your USP to the likes of 2Gs. Punjab was an example in front of you when you could not win election even with lots of money and a wave going in favour of you.

This was another big suicidal step of yours.

3.) Dismantling Maharashtra Unit

Let me tell you Arvind, after Delhi and Punjab the best performing unit of AAP was Maharashtra. Since Mayank Gandhi exposed your conspiracy and hypocrisy of ousting Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Prof. Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha from the party you simply released an order that all the Maharashtra committees are dissolved? You brutally murdered AAP in Maharashtra.

After Delhi win AAP had got huge boost across the nation and Maharashtra unit was in best position to ripen the fruits of our hard work and before that due to your insecurity firstly you removed PB and YY and later you just removed everyone who raised voice against your wrong-doings.

Maharashtra is just an example, the organization died in almost every part of the country.

Remember Arvind, “Upar Waala Sab Dekh Raha Hai”. I don’t know how much ground volunteers you talk to after your every selfish decision but let me tell you my experience. Since I was handling outside volunteer management in Delhi elections 2015, volunteers from across the nation had my number. When you were murdering the movement there were at least 15 volunteers who cried on phone and begged to save the party any how, but like all others I was also helpless. When you take the name of “God”, “Bhagwan”, “Upar Wala”in your speeches, trust me Arvind, if there is really an “Upar Wala” then you are bound to get very big punishment.

4.) Removing PB, YY, AJ and Anand Ji

Do you remember your 3Cs – crime, corruption and character? Can you tell me out of Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Prof. Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha who is a criminal? Who is corrupt? And who has poor character? If answers to these questions are none of them, then can you try to explain to the nation that why you removed them from the party? Did you conduct a poll among ranks and files of AAP whether these people were assets for AAP or were detrimental to AAP?

This single move of yours had split the movement in two halves. Other than your insecurity and selfishness what justified reason you can give for this step of yours? I still remember that day, volunteers were crying. Volunteers from across the world were tensed and you the murderer of everyone’s emotions were busy in playing your cheap conspiracies. In front of me your call used to come to people whom you were instructing from Bangalore to throw PB-YY out, and your puppets used to tell media that you can’t even take calls in Bangalore.

The discussion of hiring the bouncers had happened in front of me though in the lighter note but later after the NC meeting when I heard about the bouncers being actually deployed at the meeting, I felt like all these days I supported a goon. Now all your puppets are turning against you one by one. And they were just puppets, anyone who was inside system knew that the architect of whole drama was you. Others who were coming to media and abusing PB-YY and those who were running a filthy SM campaign against them were just your puppets Arvind. They were only acting as per your directions.

Now take a look back and try to realize what you achieved by removing most credible leaders of AAP and what you lost. If you would have apologized to people like PB you would not have to apologize to Majithia.

5.) Giving Tickets to Tainted Candidates in 2015 Elections

In 2015 election, your volunteers had created such wave in Delhi that even if you have given to an unknown person he/she would have won from any seat in Delhi. But god knows what made you think that only powerful and high net worth people can win election for you.

Initially I had thought that it is the middle men who are distributing tickets are miss guiding you and giving tickets to tainted candidates but when I had visited your house with Faheem for Buzz Campaign and Outside Volunteer Management meeting, after hearing your conversation with Dilip I understood that it is not middle men but it is you who want powerful candidates even if they are tainted.

Many volunteers were upset over ticket distribution, in some cases tickets were given to the candidates against whom they had fought in 2013 elections and in 2015 they had to campaign for their rivals of 2013. I remember one volunteer saying that “I am ready to work hard for 5 more years but we should not compromise with such candidates to grab the power”.

Prashant Ji was angry over tainted candidates. As a part of grievance team I carried out investigation of the backgrounds of all the candidates and based on our investigation we found that 28 candidates were unsuitable and out of them 12 should never get ticket. After Prashant Ji’s objection, Lokpal was invoked and 2 tickets were cancelled and one turned to BJP immediately after getting ticket. Now you must be realising whether it was worth to give them tickets or may be you are not realizing as your are blind. You can now think about yourself and no one else.

6.) Trying to form government from backdoor with Congress after 2014 Lok Sabha loss

When you had resigned after 49 days without consulting majority of NE or PAC members, many opposed this decision of yours. But I was one of those who said if Arvind would not have resigned I would have stopped supporting him as I felt you were right in resigning when you were not able to pass Lokpal in the assembly.

After resigning we decided to fight Lok Sabha elections, all volunteers faced problems in answering the “Bhagora” remarks because of your resignation but everyone worked whole heartedly and everyone put their everything in Lok Sabha elections. We were all in Varanasi to campaign day and night to fight against the might of Narendra Modi and we believe even in the loss it was a huge victory the way we fought Varanasi elections.

Even when we were fighting Lok Sabha elections we knew that we will not form government at centre. We knew that we will lose. We knew that we will lose in Varanasi. But After losing why you got so scared that you felt that if we don’t form government again in Delhi then we will be finished? You started talking to the 6 Congress MLAs from back door and this started the main rift within the party. Even after majority of the NE expressed that this will not be right to form government again with the support of congress you continued to approach them from back door. Do you know that if you would have made the government again with Congress you would have been finished in 2015 itself?

If you have read about the above six suicidal steps, here are my suggestions what you can do now:

My Suggestions for you

Please do Something Good for the Nation before you die.

It is very certain that your political career is nearing its end. In the next assembly elections of Delhi AAP will not form government and if you are not in government then you will hardly continue in politics. And outside Delhi, the condition you know for yourself.

What damage you have caused to this generation of India can hardly be repaired but at least before your political career ends, please do following so that there can be some hope for the future:

Accept all your mistakes in Public, explain people how you conspired against your own people and let everyone know your mistakes. You are good in apologizing and you can do this. Do this for the nation.

Apologize to the people like Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Prof. Anand Kumar, Mayank Gandhi, Admiral Ramdas and most importantly to all the volunteers across the globe. Make this apology in public.

Handover the AAP to the rightful people. Before handing over read your book Swaraj yourself once and create proper systems of internal democracy, transparency and accountability. Whatever happens, there is no doubt that you are the best administrator amongst all the old and current AAP members and only you can make those systems. I can help in creating those systems with the help of IT.

Call a global volunteers meet, ask all the volunteers to come to a meeting at Ram Leela Maidan or at any suitable place and tell them that you made mistakes, you had become selfish and now you will never repeat such mistakes.

Take a pledge that in next 5 years you will work in AAP under other leadership which should emerge from democratic process and for next 5 years you will not hold any position in party or in government.

Arvind, if you could do above may be the movement gets reenergized and may be the movement can reach its conclusion of removing corruption from the country. before you die due to your political suicide attempts, please do something good for the nation. Otherwise history will remember you as a fraud who killed a generation’s hope for his personal hunger for power.

I want to end this with the example which Atishi had given in a meeting before 2015 elections. She had given the example of “Boiling water and dying frog” at the house of PB when we were discussing about the tainted candidates. She had told that when you put a frog in boiling water then it jumps off but if you put the frog in cold water and you star heating it, before the frog realizes that it is hot, he is unable to jump and dies. By this example she had told that we made one compromise and we thought may be this was necessary and this much is fine, then we did another and so on and now we are in a position that we can’t jump off the boiling water and we will die. By this example I want to tell that you have crossed elasticity limit long back and maybe it can’t be restored to its original, but still I will love to see you giving an honest try. As Kumar always says the lines of Dushyant Kumar “कैसे आकाश में सूराख़ हो नहीं सकता, एक पत्थर तो तबीयत से उछालो यारो”

About Author

The author of this article is Neeraj Kumar. He worked for AAP from 2013 to 2015. He had joined AAP after leaving his job at Infosys and worked with various teams of AAP.

Note: The content of this article is the personal opinion of the author.