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| Should J&K rulers worry about Kejriwal or themselves? | | | early times report
Jammu, Jan 5: State CM Omar Abdullah has given some good advice to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Omar Abdullah has said Kejriwal should not bother about whether he stays in a 5-bedroom flat or elsewhere. Instead, Kejriwal should concentrate on delivering on his election promises.
The advice is well-timed and well thought, but the problem is that the advice is required more by the giver than the one it is intended for. The promises of the NC-Congress coalition government in the State are still to be fulfilled while the 6-year term of the coalition government is now barely nine months to end.
Kejriwal has delivered at least two of his most spoken about promises made during the elections. He has already announced relief on electricity and also 700 litres of water free daily for households in the union capital. These two promises were delivered even before the government headed by Kejriwal settled down in office. What about the lofty promises made by the State government? Where the 80,000 government jobs? Where is uninterrupted electric supply for Jammu and Valley? Where is corruption free good governance? The list of promises made by the NC and the Congress before and after they forged an alliance in 2009 to form the present government in J&K is as endless as the list of the coalition government's unfulfilled promises.
The biggest advantage that politicians in India and especially in J&K have is that the people have short-lived memory. People forget what promises have been made by the politicians before they come to power and the politicians remember those promises because they have to repeat them from one election to the other.
The fever of goodwill and expectations generated by AAP is something that must rattle every political party in the country. The fact that this few days' old party has caught the imagination of the common man is not entirely because of the popularity of the AAP leaders, but it is basically because of the levels of notoriety of the politicians belonging to other political parties.
As has rightly been said elections are generally not won by anybody, these are lost by parties and persons. The Delhi election is also a serious pointer in this direction. The election was lost by Shiela Dixit and her party more than it was won by Kejriwal and his men.
In the same manner, elections in J&K would perhaps not be won as convincingly in 2014 as they would be convincingly lost by those who lose them.
It is, therefore, high time Omar and his ruling partners stopped talking of Kejriwal and the good governance he must deliver as he has promised to. Let politicians of the State stop worrying about others and start worrying about themselves.
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