Lesson Number One

For Arvind Kejriwal - and his team of ministers and MLAs - lesson number one is :

TALK  LESS   /  WORK  MORE

You did not have to declare ( from roof-top too ! ),

"  If elected , we will shun government bungalows / cars / servants etc  "

No one had asked you for proof of your simplicity

But you went ahead and did it on your own !

Now that you have placed yourself under the microscope , people of Delhi are asking :

"  Why is Arvind moving into a 10 room bungalow  ?

    Why has he accepted security from UP government  ?

    Why are AAP ministers using government cars ( - chauffer driven too )  ?

    What were you trying to achieve - except perhaps fool the public - by

    travelling in metro / auto / Wagon-R , for first 4 days  ?  "

People of Delhi think that ,

>   they have been taken for a ride ( - no doubt , on metro ! )

>   you have pulled a fast one on them

>   you have betrayed their trust

DEAR  ARVIND ,

There was no need for you to have made those lofty declarations

But for your failed attempt to project your simplicity as a virtue , no one would have bothered to wonder why you are moving from a 3 bedroom flat to a 5 bedroom flat

People may have even appreciated that you intend to continue your office work ( beyond office hours ) , in a 5 room office attached to your residence

Every single Chief Minister of India  has to do that  !

More than 50 years back , Dr Jivraj Mehta ( - the first Chief Minister of Gujarat ) , spent a night at my father's modest house in village Vadia

He had just one peon in his retinue ( - apart from his driver ) , who carried a heap of files inside the house

After dinner , he sat down cross-legged , on a bed laid out on the floor and answered questions of the villagers

When I got up next morning , I saw him going thru those files and making notes . My father later told me that the CM had started work at 4 am - still sitting cross-legged on the floor  !

Dr Jivraj Mehta did not have to declare his " Simplicity " to anyone  !

Then 3 years later , corrupt Congress MLAs of Gujarat , who could not stomach the honesty of Dr Mehta , got High Command to replace him  !

DEAR  ARVIND ,

You have many lessons to learn from history

Lesson  No ONE  is  :

>  Do not undertake / promise anything that you cannot sustain

>  Once you promise anything , don't go back on it


>  Always ask , " Will I be able to defend my position later ? "

>  TALK  LESS  /  WORK  MORE

*    hemen   parekh  (  04  Jan  2014  /  Mumbai  )