Back in 2011, when I was a reporter with NDTV, I remember the non stop, saturated coverage of Anna Hazare’s anticorruption movement. I was among the many reporters at Ramlila Maidan, where Anna launched his fasts against Manmohan Singh’s government.
The UPA government at the time was mired in one corruption scandal after another. And here were a bunch of seemingly non political activists who were challenging the status quo. They would start a political entity which would emerge as the biggest political disrupter of our times. Leading it was former bureaucrat Arvind Kejriwal.
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The UPA government at the time was mired in one corruption scandal after another. And here were a bunch of seemingly non political activists who were challenging the status quo. They would start a political entity which would emerge as the biggest political disrupter of our times. Leading it was former bureaucrat Arvind Kejriwal.
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00:00Life really has come full circle for Arvind K. Jeeval. The man who became a political
00:09leader on the basis of an anti-corruption movement is today in jail on corruption charges
00:15arrested by the Enforcement Directorate just weeks before the Lok Sabha elections.
00:20There are several aspects to this story. One is of course the fact that the ED has been
00:25proactively going after opposition politicians and particularly ahead of the general election
00:31it's created a very uneven and unfair playing field. The second aspect of it is the politics
00:36of the Aam Aadmi Party itself. As I said, K. Jeeval's politics was born from andholans
00:43or protests from an anti-corruption movement that began with Anna Hazare's fast back
00:48in 2011. The AAP within years emerged as a formidable political force and in the last
00:54decade has in fact gone on to become a much bigger force than many had anticipated. It
01:01decimated the Congress in Delhi and it also won the state of Punjab comprehensively proving
01:07that it could possibly be the biggest challenger to the BJP not now, not even in the medium
01:13term, but perhaps in the long run. Maybe that explains why the BJP has never really liked
01:19Arvind K. Jeeval, his politics of governance, schools, mahalla clinics, etc. But what happens
01:27to the AAP from here will be interesting to watch. They can either turn Arvind K. Jeeval's
01:32arrest into a political opportunity and hopefully be able to gather the opposition together
01:38and mobilize sympathy for him or this may actually end up being in a sense the end of
01:45the road for the AAP. If they aren't able to convince people, if they do end up losing
01:49the elections badly or if there's no clear path that the party has charted out for itself
01:55in a post-K. Jeeval scenario because he's going to be out of action for some time, for
01:59at least the next several months. So what does the AAP do from here? We'll just have to wait and see.