Mistakes Kejriwal should never have committed

Kejriwal’s Mistakes which proved very expensive to him

1. Arwind Kejriwal started gimmicks the day he won elections. His desire to hold Assembly Session in the Ram Lila Maidan was the start of the downward spiral. However this being the first mistake, people just ignored it.

2. His refusal to take the larger Chief-Ministerial accommodation, car and security was considered by the people not to be in good taste and cheap gimmick. His cost him the most. The fall of impression started here.

3. Public humiliation of a lady by an act of vigilante by one of his ministers was against the rule of law. Such mistake should not have been allowed to take place. When it had happened he could not do the proper damage control.

4. Invading the BJP office was seen by people as an act of vandalism. A people is known by the friends he keeps. Such associates cost Kejriwal a fortune.

5. The dharna at India Gate by Chief-Minister Kejriwal was too much. However in itself it was not enough to cause much damage to the image of “Kejriwal”. However it showed his immaturity and unpredictability. He should have adopted other methods to expose the corruption in the Delhi Police. By installing CCTV cameras at strategic locations like check-posts, he could have been able to show the rampant bribery in the Delhi Police.

6. His criticism of Narendra Modi was not likes by people. When you criticise anyone, you lose your own impression before causing any damage to the image of the person you are criticising. Therefore wise people do not indulge in criticism campaign by anyone. The correct way of criticising is just put some facts before the people. The keep silent. Do not express your reaction. For example, you show a sting operation video of bribe being taken. Then keep silent. Do not add your commentary like: “Look, these thoroughly immoral and corrupt people, how they have created a tower of corruption! They have no morality, and they will ruin the nation… “ etc etc. Thus, some 500 farmers have committed suicide in Gujarat was highlighted too much by him. However this was a tiny number compared to the number of the suicides by farmers committed in Maharashtra. People thought he is trying to mislead them. This was not needed.

7. Narendra Modi has a very strong image in most of the people’s minds. Instead of attacking Narendra Modi, he and his cadre should have focussed on attacking those leaders of BJP whom people really do not like, rather hate. Such leaders are: Rajnath Singh, Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Anant Kumar. That approach would have not cost the AAP the loss of image which it suffered by criticising Narendra Modi baselessly.

8. The time has changed. When you play a caste card, you lose sympathy of the other castes. In the same way if you play the Muslim card, you lose votes of others. Show neutrality towards religious groups and castes. This is a very difficult terrain and very high level of skill is required for playing the caste and religion cards. Better avoid it.

9. He is not seen now as a leader. He is not leading his cadre now. His surrounding coterie is leading him now. Every organization including a state, a nation or a government needs real leaders, not someone who can be manipulated by his lieutenants.

10. Kejriwal is now considered an egoist. He does not tolerate his criticism by any of his colleagues. He needs to create an impression that he has his own vision, he is flexible and accommodates good ideas; he is intelligent and distinguish between good and bad ideas and can pre-judge the future implications and impact of any action he does. The reality is that he comes to know the effect of any action only after the action’s effect has badly damaged him.