Letter I received from AAP and My response....

This is the email I got and my response is below. Of course AAP has neither acknowledged my mail nor do I expect them to since you see they are god, perfection rolled into one.

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From: Aam Aadmi Party
To: Ravindra Vasisht <................> 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2014 9:53 PM
Subject: Why did Arvind Kejriwal resign?

Dear Ravindra Vasisht As an Aam Aadmi Party supporter, you must have been asked a hundred times, why Arvind Kejriwal resigned as the Delhi Chief Minister? Well, here is the answer. AAP got only 28 of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly election. Still, the Lt Governor invited Arvind to form the government, as the Congress (with 8 seats) had offered unconditional support. Finding it hard to believe, Arvind sent a letter to the Congress President listing out the 18 points in the AAP manifesto, including passing of the Jan Lokpal bill. The Congress reverted saying it will support AAP unconditionally on all 18 points. With this commitment, Arvind formed the minority government in Delhi. However, when AAP presented the Jan Lokpal bill in the Assembly, the Congress and the BJP came together to ensure the bill is not passed. The Aam Aadmi Party had won the vote and trust of citizens of Delhi on the plank of anti corruption. And since the minority government could not pass the Jan Lokpal bill that was promised to citizens of Delhi, Arvind resigned.  Click on the image below to know why Arvind resigned in Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party will return to form the government with a full majority and pass the Jan Lokpal and Swaraj bills in Delhi Assembly. Please share this email with all those who have asked you this question. To support us, click here to donate to the Lok Sabha election fund. Jai Hind Aam Aadmi Party Team

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Dear Folks

Firstly thanks for addressing this issue which means that finally, even if late you are realising that this is becoming an issue that is affecting your party.

Secondly AAP has a set of followers/supporters who are like a cult. Any nonsense you spew they will lap it up as gospel truth. For the really educated aware citizens like me, your bluff and rhetoric does not impress me. If you have the patience and humility, read this email below or if you have the arrogance to believe that you know all and riding some kind of a wave, hit the delete button now.

Background :

1. I participated in your IAC movement and donated money.
2. I donated money to AAP and you are the ONLY political party to who I have donated in  my life.
3. I honestly felt that AAP can make a difference.

My opinion now :

• AAP is arrogant. Anyone who disagrees or questions you, you term them as corrupt or whatever.
• AAP sees no need to have a economic policy or have the humility to learn by getting in various thoughts.
• AAP is no longer aam aadmi - it is hijacked by a set of people who have money, influence, social standing and having failed to grow further or get desired opportunities in politics due to the barriers have jumped on your band wagon. Not all but many.  Your support base grew AFTER you won Delhi.
• AAP should have first learnt  how to govern in Delhi and then go national. Your ambitions are woefully divergent from your capabilities or talent. At this rate if I hear tomorrow that  you want to take over the UNO or USA or  EU and change the world I would not be surprised. I am being sarcastic here.

Delhi episode :

1. You won on a anti congress platform. Dont be stupid to drag BJP in  since neither the central or state government for the last 10 years was from BJP. 
2. The mood overwhelmingly is anti congress and after AK swears on his children, 24 hrs later he accepts congress support. Dont give me the bull shit that they supported, you didnt ask etc. That is balderdash.
3. The circumstances on which you quit Delhi were unwarranted, nonsensical and irrelevent.  Let me tell you why.
4. A state government has 70% administrative work and only 30% is legislative. So even assuming that you could not get anything passed in the assembly you could have still had a tremendous impact on the 70%  by showing what you are capable of. Results on the 70% could have meant that 2019 LS you could aim to win power on your own steam.
5. Let me now assume that you have all 70 seats in Delhi assembly and zero opposition. Can you get the Janlok pal bill passed, approved, notified and gazetted as law ?????  The answer is NO.  So cut the crap that cong/bjp ganged up against you. Your cult members will swallow that but not the educated aware voters.  For making it approved/notified you would still need the MHA, Governor, President and your bill could be blocked at any level and delayed for years.
6. If you guys had even an ounce of brains and  as  principled and sincere as you claim you had 2 options to take both of which were practical, possible and would have resulted in huge support for you morally. Option (1) Amend the existing Delhi lokayukta act to modify it in line with your Janlokpal. You did not need any prior approvals and could have presented this in assembly for discussion and exposed cong/bjp. Option (2) You could have accepted the constitutional requirement/ procedure and kept advertising its status to the people  and exposed cong/bjp that it is being deliberately delayed even if you follow procedure as per law.  You folks did neither and instead  walked away since you realised that talk is cheap and easy but action is costly and tough.
7. After having brandished 300 pages of evidence against Sheila Dikshit you arrogantly wanted BJP to give evidence - shows either you were bluffing or in bed with congress.
8. You started smartly by announcing a CAG audit of the discoms but even before the audit happens you took them head on and made a mess and a drama. Again stupidity.

I can go on and on but let me stop here.

Overall :

• Above all you should have stayed in government and quietly  worked to bring about change. Demonstrate to the people what a difference you can make. This if you had done would have gone a long way to helping your Lok Sabha campaign, but you didnt.
• You should have focussed on say 50 to 60 LS seats and put the entire might of your support/finance and tried to get at least 5 to 10  seats. Instead you want to contest 300, 400 and what not, spread yourself thin. That to me is again stupidity and blind ambition without vision.
• Whatever argument you may give about BJP being the real competition your excessive focus on BJP is making your campaign counter productive. You are perceived and exceedingly believed to be a stooge of the congress. In politics remember perception is often fact.
• You dont criticise congress with the argument that they are history. This shows either supreme arrogance or again that you  are in bed with congress behind the scenes.
• Dont blame media since the same media created you. But your constant dharnas and protests without substance,  shoot and scoot at all and sundry shows a seriously juvenile teenage tantrum behaviour than maturity to lead a state let alone a nation.
• On issues economic  you have zero knowledge and think that if you state a bluff a hundred times people will believe it. Yes, your cult members will. But remember a cult is never large enough to rule a state or country. At best they will always be a painful pimple on the bottom.
• Learn from Mamata in WB, she also started her CM as a street protestor but quickly learnt from criticism and today doing well and getting excellent ratings quietly. But AAP seems to have the supreme arrogance that you know all, you are the only honest people in this country and the rest of us citizens are fools. Congress incidentally also thinks the same way except they dont talk of honesty too much
• This feedback from a educated, intelligent citizen can either be thrown with a delete action or can be an opportunity to change course and become a change agent in India.
• Lastly I am no astrologer to predict what will happen in the delhi assembly. Seems it would be difficult for AAP to win but all I can say is that I wish that AAP wins all 70 seats. That way either AAP will destroy itself completely and become a footnote in Indian history if you continue the same arrogant, holier than thou, intolerant, immature attitude OR you will become sober, stop protesting, become more humble, be more accommodative and when that happens you will also have to start compromises in politics.

Time will tell the answer.

Regards

Ravindra