A ‘˜Sorry’ Kejriwal Defies Judiciary, Jailed

It seems Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal is still not up for mending his ways. After losing bitterly in the Lok Sabha elections and losing hold of Delhi, it was being considered that he will try to change and do some introspection.

He did work on some expected lines and acknowledged the fact that his resigning from the post of Delhi CM was a ‘mistake’ and apologized for the same. He even announced ‘Sorry Sabhas’ in Delhi to pacify the pubic there. But the very next day it was proved that Kejriwal is capable of nothing but fooling people and taking foolish steps.

Kejriwal was arrested and sent to Tihar Jail on judicial custody for refusing to pay the bail bond in Nitin Gadkari defamation case that was filed by the AAP. The court had asked Kejriwal to pay a bail bond of Rs 10,000.

On January 31, Kejriwal had released a list of “India’s most corrupt” people which included the name of BJP leader Nitin Gadkari. The former president of BJP had told the court that “false, baseless, scandalous, defamatory statements” by Kejriwal against him had lowered his dignity and had filed a defamation suit against the latter.

It is learnt that when asked for bail bond by court in the same case, Kejriwal said that he was “fighting for corruption” and that he will not seek bail as he has “not done anything wrong”. He is also learnt to have said that the case was of “political nature” and hence he would not furnish a bail bond. Instead he asked for an undertaking which would have enable him not to furnish bail bond and appear before the court at every hearing.

The judge of the court reportedly had asked Kejriwal to furnish the bail bond as it was part of the procedure and that by refusing to do so he was “seeking a preferential treatment”. When he remained defiant, the court sent him to judicial custody. He will be produced before court on May 23.

Later, Kejriwal’s counsel and AAP leader Prashant Bhushan told the reporters that it was “against his values and principles” to take bail. Kejriwal is also learnt to have said that he did not have the kind of money to furnish the bail bond.

Now one cannot see the logic in it as Kejriwal is already paying Rs 85,000 as a rent for his Delhi government house which he has still not vacated even after resigning for the post. And procedures of law are completely different from the set of principles that drive one’s life.

By agreeing to go to jail, he may think that the matter will escalate and put him in some kind of good light which may generate some sympathy towards him. But with the lies about his arrest that the AAP is already spreading and the kind of foolish step that he has taken, well, the janata punished him for the same crime – trying to fool them.

Not furnishing any substantial proof against your claim and not furnishing the bail bond is obstructing the justice and wasting the time of judiciary. And an Aam Aadmi should behave like an Aam Aadmi afterall.

Now that a sorry Kejriwal is in jail, he should re-think his strategies and understand sooner that he will have to do more than Sorry Sabhas to win back the popular support he once had.