What a fall! Or is it a fall, really?

It was like watching an agonisingly prolonged tableau and a terrible one at that. Arvind Kejriwal has tendered his resignation. He's cited the reason of not being allowed to table the 'Jan Lokpal bill' in the Assembly. There's another point of view that seems to be doing the rounds - Kejriwal is positioning himself as a game changer on the national firmament and perhaps, he too nurses Prime Ministerial ambitions! There's little time left before the elections are gonna be notified!!

To me, Kejriwal came down quite a few notches in esteem on the following occasions:-

      (a) the day he decided to form a government with the support of the Congress party.
      (b) the day he'd backed one of his ministers who'd asked the police to take action against certain
            African women for allegedly bad conduct.    
      (c) the day he took to the streets to force the central government to throw out the policemen who
            refused to obey his minister's bizarre orders and then, meekly surrendering to the compromise
            formula thrown at him.
      (d) for not fulfilling a single poll promise that he'd made and which could have easily been
            provided if he'd wanted:-

            (i) providing 700 litres of water to every citizen.
           (ii) bring out the rampant corrupt practices in power distribution.
          (iii) take effective steps for the safety of women in Delhi.

Sadly, he has failed in every department. Hope the Assembly is dissolved at the earliest and elections conducted. And let the Delhiites be more prudent this time and give the necessary mandate to the best among the lot to rule.


Tailpiece.

Or is it that the pantomime has been enacted well, in that, he and his party fare well in both the repeat Assembly elections and the Parliamentary elections out of a 'sympathy' wave........ I, somehow, am not able to buy that!