Arvind Kejriwal - Revision history

Jyoti: /* 2015: a comeback */

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‎2015: a comeback

Jyoti: /* Grassroots work */

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‎Grassroots work

Pdewan at 04:51, 19 March 2015

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Pdewan at 18:06, 23 February 2015

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‎Feb 2015: changes the political landscape

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	People are prescient. It is said BJP president Amit Shah had never lost an election he supervised. Arvind Kejriwal showed that there's always a first.		People are prescient. It is said BJP president Amit Shah had never lost an election he supervised. Arvind Kejriwal showed that there's always a first.
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		+	=2024: SC grants bail in Excise case=
		+	[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=14_09_2024_001_002_cap_TOI AmitAnand Choudhary, Sep 14, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: The Excise case and Arvind Kejriwal- 2021-2024 Sep.jpg\|The Excise case and Arvind Kejriwal- 2021-2024 Sep <br/> From: [https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=14_09_2024_002_001_cap_TOI Atul Mathur, Sep 14, 2024: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	'''See graphic''':
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		+	'' The Excise case and Arvind Kejriwal- 2021-2024 Sep ''
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		+	New Delhi : Supreme Court granted bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a CBI case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, ensuring his release from jail as he had already been given bail in a money laundering case pursued by ED.
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		+	The order in the corruption case came as a big relief to AAP ahead of Haryana assembly elections. All its senior members accused in the case are now out on bail.
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		+	Applying the salutary principle of “bail is the rule and jail is the exception”, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said that the requisite triple conditions for grant of bail — that the CM has no criminal antecedents, is not a flight risk, and poses no threat of tampering with witnesses or evidence — were satisfied.
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		+	The court, though, spelled out certain bail conditions: Kejriwal shall not visit the CM’s office and the Delhi secretariat; he shall not sign official files unless required and necessary for obtaining clearance/approval of LG; has to be present in the trial court on each date of hearing unless granted exemption; and can’t make any public comment on the merits of this case. He has to furnish bail bond for Rs 10 lakh with two sureties of like amount.
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		+	Both the judges were unanimous on granting bail to the CM, but penned separate judgments, diverging sharply on the merits of his arrest. Justice Kant, who examined the procedure adopted by CBI in arresting the CM while he was in judicial custody in the money laundering matter, held that the arrest was valid and there were no procedural lapses.
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		+	On the other hand, Justice Bhuyan looked into the “necessity and timing of the arrest” and came to the conclusion that the arrest was unjustified and its timing “quite suspect”, while questioning CBI’s motive in arresting him almost two years after the case had been lodged.
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		+	Underscoring that personal liberty was sacrosanct and bail was closely tied to liberty, the bench said bail ple- as should be adjudicated promptly on their merit, rather than oscillating between courts on mere procedural technicalities. It said trial courts and high courts must remain adequately alert to the need to protect personal liberty, which it said is a cherished right under the Constitution.
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 He was a part of the Team Anna, along with first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan and others. He was the civil society representative member of the committee constituted by the Government to draft the jan lokpal bill, following the campaign for introduction of such legislation. Arvind Kejriwal extended his full support to Anna Hazare's 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, which was a series of demonstrations and protests across India intended to establish strong legislation and enforcement against perceived endemic political corruption. The movement was named among the "Top 10 News Stories of 2011" by Time magazine.
 =Politics=
 After feeling "betrayed" by the government when it rejected their draft, Congress and other leaders challenged them to join politics, win elections and come to Parliament if they wanted to "fight system from within", root out corruption and get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed. Known for taking on challenges, the indefatigable activist decided to take a plunge into politics and formed "Aam Aadmi Party" on November 26, 2013, after a formal split of Team Anna.

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 Often poked fun at by politicians, the former Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was challenged by none other than senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal in — not to criticize the political system as an outsider but join it to cleanse it from within.
 Belying all claims of being a "non-actor or no factor" in the Delhi assembly elections by Congress and BJP, Kejriwal was largely instrumental in snapping the 15-year rule of incumbent chief minister.
 =Feb 2015: changes the political landscape=
 Kejriwal’s AAP swept the Delhi Assembly polls, winning 67 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats, leaving rivals BJP with 3 seats and the Congress with none.

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 In 2013, Kejriwal was the poster boy of a brave new India. He was the cri de coeur of commoners against the entrenched political elite, the anti-graft crusader who had brought that dirty eight-letter word, idealism, back in politics. In doing so, the former IRS officer had underlined the possibility of real alternative politics, of an engagement beyond the BJP-Congress binary , of the idea of another India. The AAP's failure to win a seat in Delhi in LS polls (although its vote share rose marginally) was a body blow to every citizen who felt the party was the agency of an experiment that could fundamentally alter the way politics was conducted in the country .
-=Five-Year Plan=
+==Five-Year Plan==
 The beauty of Kejriwal's second coming is that few expected it; certainly not last year's opinion polls. When the campaign began, BJP resembled a juggernaut. Under the Modi-Shah combine, the saffron party attained an LS majority when everybody thought coalition governments were inevitable. Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra -no bridge was too far for the duo. With Congress comatose and AAP supposedly reeling from the shock loss, the Delhi battle seemed a walk in the park. Early opinion polls showed BJP in pole position.
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 The idea was to address these issues.Kejriwal was clear about going to the people and apologizing for quitting. “People had to be assured that the party had the vision and desire to govern. We'd first coined a slogan: Dilli kahe dil se, Kejriwal phir se. But it didn't address the bhagora issue. So we came up with Paanch saal Kejriwal. This was a statement of intent: We're here for the long haul,“ he says.
-=No magic bullet=
+==No magic bullet==
 This time AAP decided to go beyond the Jan Lokpal Bill as a magic cure for all ills. Delhi Dialogues was launched in November. The idea was to create a participatory manifesto following exchanges between experts and common people -professionals, homemakers, youth, residents in JJ clusters and unauthorized colonies -across the city . Dharnas were dumped.
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 “It's a feat building a movement on the middle-class desire for change, their anger against corruption. Then losing out in the national polls, rebuilding your party , reformulating strategy and defeating a party that looked unbeatable,“ he adds.
 On the last day of campaigning, Kejriwal's grey Innova and his kaafila stop at a red light near North Block.Two young men on bicycles spot him. They rush with cellphones for selfies. It's not a meeting of two voters and an ex-CM. With Kejriwal, there's no fear or pedestal. The distance between a political leader and an ordinary citizen collapses.

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	Kejriwal’s AAP swept the Delhi Assembly polls, winning 67 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats, leaving rivals BJP with 3 seats and the Congress with none.		Kejriwal’s AAP swept the Delhi Assembly polls, winning 67 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats, leaving rivals BJP with 3 seats and the Congress with none.
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		+	=2015: a comeback=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Common-Man-Uncommon-Comeback-11022015006005 ''The Times of India'']
		+	Feb 11 2015
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		+	Avijit Ghosh
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		+	''' Common man, uncommon comeback '''
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		+	''' How the AAP Chief retrieved a near impossible situation & scripted a house wapsi '''
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		+	Politics can be as brutal as boxing. When the punches, jabs and barbs sting your face, there's nowhere to hide. No one cares about the bruises on your body , or the knocks your ego takes. When you fall everybody cheers. Sometimes, just sometimes, there's a twist in the tale. Down for the count, a boxer staggers back to his feet. He draws from a secret reserve of strength, rains unexpected blows on his rival and pulls off the improbable.
		+	Arvind Kejriwal has done something like that. Slaughtered in last summer's national polls, pummelled by the press, mocked by rivals and largely shunned by the public, the AAP mascot fashioned one of the most romantic comebacks in India's new-millennium politics. AAP 67, BJP+ 3, Congress 0 -a knockout. As his saffron rivals might say , it's that upadravi (disruptive) gotra at work.
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		+	In 2013, Kejriwal was the poster boy of a brave new India. He was the cri de coeur of commoners against the entrenched political elite, the anti-graft crusader who had brought that dirty eight-letter word, idealism, back in politics. In doing so, the former IRS officer had underlined the possibility of real alternative politics, of an engagement beyond the BJP-Congress binary , of the idea of another India. The AAP's failure to win a seat in Delhi in LS polls (although its vote share rose marginally) was a body blow to every citizen who felt the party was the agency of an experiment that could fundamentally alter the way politics was conducted in the country .
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		+	=Five-Year Plan=
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		+	The beauty of Kejriwal's second coming is that few expected it; certainly not last year's opinion polls. When the campaign began, BJP resembled a juggernaut. Under the Modi-Shah combine, the saffron party attained an LS majority when everybody thought coalition governments were inevitable. Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra -no bridge was too far for the duo. With Congress comatose and AAP supposedly reeling from the shock loss, the Delhi battle seemed a walk in the park. Early opinion polls showed BJP in pole position.
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		+	Senior AAP members say if anyone was certain the party could make a comeback, it was Kejriwal. “ After we resigned last year, stories were planted that the party is falling apart. Some of us were disappointed. Arvind was sure it wouldn't happen. He radiates posi tivity,“ says party leader Manish Sisodia.
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		+	Senior member Ashutosh says everyone in AAP was feeling low after the LS setback.“Arvind's view was: Nothing is impossible.He was clear people were angry with AAP only because we quit the government, not for any adverse reason like corruption.He was positive our party had earned goodwill and enjoyed high approval for what it did in its 49-day rule.“
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		+	What followed under Kejriwal was a masterclass in grassroots politics. “The three main critical views against AAP were iden tified. We were regarded as bhagora (not interested in governance), too ambitious (aspiring for national prominence without doing local work) and addicted to dharnas (habitual agitationists),“ says Ashutosh.
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		+	The idea was to address these issues.Kejriwal was clear about going to the people and apologizing for quitting. “People had to be assured that the party had the vision and desire to govern. We'd first coined a slogan: Dilli kahe dil se, Kejriwal phir se. But it didn't address the bhagora issue. So we came up with Paanch saal Kejriwal. This was a statement of intent: We're here for the long haul,“ he says.
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		+	=No magic bullet=
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		+	This time AAP decided to go beyond the Jan Lokpal Bill as a magic cure for all ills. Delhi Dialogues was launched in November. The idea was to create a participatory manifesto following exchanges between experts and common people -professionals, homemakers, youth, residents in JJ clusters and unauthorized colonies -across the city . Dharnas were dumped.
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		+	AAP's preparation had depth and detail.Kejriwal attended 110 public meetings. Sources say it was his idea to posit Jagdish Mukhi's face as BJP's CM candidate on the back of autos early on in the campaign though the party had made no such announcement. Kejriwal's cough and muffler had turned into a viral joke. But a cool social media poster titled, Muflerman (sic) Returns: The Corruption Hunter, a take-off from the Hollywood movie, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, turned the joke on its head.
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		+	In the national elections, Modi spoke of development. Kejriwal's tirade was more personal. Now roles were reversed.Kejriwal focused on the electorate rather than BJP and forced the rival to a more extreme and negative position. Among other things, he was called “a bandar“, “a thief “, “toxic“ and worse. The AAP leader wasn't pugnacious but didn't back off when pushed. When Arun Jaitley accused AAP of taking hawala money , Kejriwal dared him to arrest him. It was truth or dare.Kejriwal won the face-off.
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		+	Social commentator Santosh Desai says this election saw a very different and more substantive Kejriwal. “He avoided confrontation, negative strategies and overtly aggressive postures. He focused on his strengths such as the positive public memory of his 49-day government. People were disappointed and angry with Kejriwal for shirking his duty . Which is different from not being worthy of it. Even his campaign against Kiran Bedi was handled with finesse, restraint, and without malice,“ says Desai.
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		+	“It's a feat building a movement on the middle-class desire for change, their anger against corruption. Then losing out in the national polls, rebuilding your party , reformulating strategy and defeating a party that looked unbeatable,“ he adds.
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		+	=People connect=
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		+	On the last day of campaigning, Kejriwal's grey Innova and his kaafila stop at a red light near North Block.Two young men on bicycles spot him. They rush with cellphones for selfies. It's not a meeting of two voters and an ex-CM. With Kejriwal, there's no fear or pedestal. The distance between a political leader and an ordinary citizen collapses.
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		+	A little later, at an informal meeting with journalists, washing down a parantha with chai, the Magsaysay winner smiles and says, “People are greeting me during the campaign as if I'm CM.“
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		+	People are prescient. It is said BJP president Amit Shah had never lost an election he supervised. Arvind Kejriwal showed that there's always a first.

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 Belying all claims of being a "non-actor or no factor" in the Delhi assembly elections by Congress and BJP, Kejriwal was largely instrumental in snapping the 15-year rule of incumbent chief minister.
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 Kejriwal’s AAP swept the Delhi Assembly polls, winn 67 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats, leaving rivals BJP with 3 seats and the Congress with none.

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 Belying all claims of being a "non-actor or no factor" in the Delhi assembly elections by Congress and BJP, Kejriwal was largely instrumental in snapping the 15-year rule of incumbent chief minister.
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 Kejriwal’s AAP swept the Delhi Assembly polls, will 67 of the 70 seats, leaving rivals BJP with 3 seats and the Congress with none.

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+Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns such as Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar.
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-Yogesh Kumar,TNN | Dec 31, 2013
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 Moved by a young boy's oratorial skills, Asha Srivastava had adjudged him best speaker at a debate competition in school. He subsequently became her student. The next time she came face to face with him was last week, the same skills amplified manifold, as he spoke at Ramlila Maidan, drawing people in droves to a political pulpit he had just reincarnated.
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 Unfortunately after class tenth, she has not met Kejriwal but always came to know about his achievements. Being herself an AAP supporter, she is waiting for the party to fight election in Gurgaon and Haryana this year. "Everyone wants to get rid of corrupt politicians and system I am sure much like Delhi, people of Gurgaon will also support AAP for corruption-free governance," she said.