Change.

I don’t usually write and certainly not when I have mountain loads of work and when my final exams are just around the corner. So what made me write today?  

Well, since a few days, I have been messaging all the people in my phone list to support AAP (If you’re in the list you would know!) and I received a lot of feedback. Ridicules and laughs and questions related to AAP and it just  reminded me of a phrase I read in my childhood, “Sabhi chahte hain ki Bhagat Singh Paida ho, magar mere nahi padosi ke ghar mein” and I find it so apt in today’s time. Everyone including me has a problem with the ‘System’. Everyone including me blames all wrong on the ‘System’ and then everyone including me steps back when asked to come forward and fix things. We want good people to come up and change the system, but never try to do it ourselves. Why?  Maybe because we know that this system is so filthy that even one step in the direction to clean it and all our past accomplishments may go in vain.

Even after knowing all this, there are a bunch of courageous people who are doing what we refused to do. Those ambitious guys are not doing it because they had nothing else to do but because they can’t just sit behind like us and expect others to take the initiative to clean the rotten system. Yes, I am talking about Arvind Kejriwal and his fellows at Delhi working under the banner of AAM AADMI PARTY (AAP). Whether you like them or not, you cannot deny that they have put their prestige, good work and name at stake to make an effort towards cleaning the system.

You and I could be a supporter of Congress or a Na-Mo government, or any other party but can we today say that these parties are talking about the issues we struggle in daily life? Will you or I get a hassle free transportation or Tatkal tickets easily if a Temple/Mosque is build in Ayodhaya? Do you know where the extra money we are spending on the Onions and Tomatoes are going and why politicians are not fixing it? Do you know why these parties do not reveal their sources of funding and refrain from coming ambit of RTI?

For moments, let’s put aside all our differences and think about it. Here is a party which:

1.       Has put all its donations online for public scrutiny, no matter whether 1 rupee or 1 crore rupees.

2.       Is willing to come under the RTI about their fundings.

3.       Has fielded all good candidates, well educated and without any criminal records.

4.       Doesn’t believe in appeasement politics (allegedly Congress’s style) or divisive politics (BJP’s style) and wants to forget our caste or religion and focus on issues which we face in everyday life.

5.       Has members who have written their resignation on affidavits if promises they have are made are not fulfilled in a defined time. (FIRST TIME EVER IN INDIA)

6.       Have been getting donations from common people like you and I who never thought of donating money to a political party.

It’s AAP which has changed the political discourse of this country. This is AAP which has adopted the best possible standards of transparency a Political party can. Why so many good things about them make us uncomfortable with them? Is it because they are new in the political arena or is it because we are blind supporters of a party or politician? If it’s the latter then maybe we DESERVE the system we live in and if we are not comfortable because it’s a ‘NEW’ party and do not know how to work then believe me they deserve a chance more than anyone else because being new they don’t even know how to properly loot the money which others parties know very well.

I do not want you to support them blindly. I want you to analyze/criticize them as much as you want but at the same time see what kind of parties we got at the other hand. They are new comers and there would certainly be hiccups in their plans and executions but what matters the most in longer run are INTENTIONS.

Do not forget what makes police different from thieves are the ‘Intentions’.