Nautanki Saala

Kejriwal said he was okay to move to two 5-bedroom houses. He later backed out saying that his party and supporters were against it. Now, he has said that he will not contest the Lok Sabha elections. Now again, his party is opposed to the idea and believes that he should contest the Lok Sabha elections. No one knows what the final decision would be but there are two points worth noting;

1. If Kejriwal takes a stand that he firmly believes in and then later backs away, how does this reflect upon him as the leader of a 'revolutionary movement' and a potential future PM? How is he very different from Manmohan Singh then. Manmohan never used to make the decision and relied on his party to make the decisions for him. Kejriwal makes the decisions and then changes them and follows what his party shows. Not the perfect example of the strong character that his supporters believe he possesses
2. What if all this is a gimmick just to show that the party believes in democracy and all the decisions and made democratically? If that is the case then the decisions made in the first place were never meant to be followed!!! If that is case, Kejriwal is pretty quick on his learning curve as far as politics is concerned. But then, was he not supposed to be different from 'politicians'?

Moreover, I find their talks of democratic way of governance very amusing. Democracy means a 'form of government where people chose the leaders through voting'. It also means 'rule of the majority'. Now majority also can be defined in various ways. In terms of elections, majority means 'more than half of the votes/seats'. AAP did not have that. Neither did BJP or any other party. Majority also means being greater in number. That way BJP had the majority. So, AAP's government is not the example of democracy at all.