"5 saal ki gudiya ko bachaya" (He saved a five-year-old innocent girl) — I have seen this sentence written below the picture of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Arvind Kejriwal on a poll poster behind a three-wheeler. There is also a picture of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit adjacent to Kejriwal's. And, she is blamed for the rising crimes against women in Delhi. Does it behove Kejriwal, who claims to be a selfless leader doing principles-based politics, to ask votes in the name of a five-year-old innocent rape victim?
About a year go I had emailed a letter (published as the August 7, 2012 post here) to India Against Corruption when Kejriwal had decided to leave Anna Hazare's apolitical movement in favour of a career in politics. The India Against Corruption had replied with a formal 'Thank you' mail. In that letter I wrote if you become part of a system (Kejriwal joining politics), your priority would be to survive in that system. So now to survive in politics Kejriwal has no scruples to thump his own back for saving the innocent child and ask votes in her name.
It's ok to criticize government for corruption. But as we are receiving rape reports from various states, rape is not a problem restricted only to Delhi. And, to check rapes you just can't have a policeman in front of every house and office and CCTVs in every room and every moving vehicle in Delhi. Many researches have shown that a great number of rapes are committed by people who are known to victims. So, how can a policeman or for that matter anyone save a girl or woman from her own people?
Our leaders, particularly those who swear by religion, and we ourselves as parents have to impart the value for respect of the fair sex to our children to tackle the grave social problem of rape. We also need to keep a constant watch on them, as they have easy access to the porn world through the Internet. So, my request to Kejriwal, please don't do politics on rape.
In Delhi the inflated power or water bills are not the real issues. The real issue in the capital is how to check people's growing inflow. If you succeed in doing so, many problems will get solved on their own. On July 4 after years I by chance had to travel from Preet Vihar to Shahdara (both in East Delhi separated by about 5 km) in the evening. I was surprised to find that a small stretch of hardly 1.5 km from Preet Vihar Metro station to Karkari Mod took me 20 minutes to clear despite the fact that the Metro line over this road also shares a great load of daily commuters. Delhi doesn't have sufficient water to quench the thirst of its one crore plus people. However, Delhiites are lucky that they are being provided power almost round the clock. Maybe Delhi has been allowed to extract a lion's share from the Northern Grid.
To make Delhi a city actually befitting its status of the nation's capital, all political parties must join hands to check people's inflow and to find ways for judicious use of its limited water and other resources for the benefit of its present population.
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