S Gurumurthy has some questions for Arvind Kejriwal

February 03, 2014 12:05

S Gurumurthy first met Arvind Kejriwal in August 2011, before the famous Anna Hazare fast demanding the Lokpal Bill. Spilling the beans on that meeting, which was not a confidential one -- unlike another one he had years ago with a Bofors payoffs accused -- the chartered accountant turned anti-corruption activist says this of the Delhi chief minister in the New Indian Express:

'Kejriwal always took Anna's name and said Anna would not agree for this or that. Next, he said that he could never cross Anna's apolitical line. When I told him finally that he might himself have to form a political party to fight the issue politically, he asserted that he had no political ambition at all. I wished him well and the meeting ended.'

But since then, watching the contortions the AAP government has been going through, Gurumurthy is forced to ask this of the reluctant politician:

'Was apolitical IAC just a strategy to lure guileless Anna and throw him out later? Would Kejriwal have deliberately used Anna knowing that a truly apolitical and undoubtedly innocent Anna would be useful but irrelevant if Kejriwal and his ambitious colleagues morphed IAC into the AAP? Where is the IAC agenda now, will he tell the nation? Was the political AAP always incubating in Kejriwal's mind even as he was espousing apolitical IAC?'

Kejriwal needs to come clean with the nation, Gurumurthy writes.

'Kejriwal needs to tell the nation why and when did he think of snuffing out the IAC and giving birth to AAP. Unless he takes the country into confidence and explains what made him ditch Anna and why he formed the AAP after promising a million times that he would not enter politics, his political morality will barely equal that of any Aam politician.'

Read his rivetting account here.

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