Prashant Bhushan of all people must know how political movements headed by charismatic figures conduct their affairs. I am sure he is aware of how VI Lenin dealt with his rivals, ideological or otherwise, even when the Soviet Communist Party was in its formative days. He dealt with Trotsky, Zinoviev, Bukarin and the Menshviks among others ruthlessly from time to time. They all came back into the fold from time to time on his terms. We know how Mao Zedong dealt with inner party rivals. We also know of MK Gandhi dealt with those who opposed him and his ways. Subhashchandra Bose was the greatest example of his ruthlessness. And he should know how his friend Muppala Ganapathy dealt with Kondpalli Sitaramayya, the founding father of the PWG.
Prashant Bhushan and goody two shoes Yogendra Yadav want the AAP to run like a urban co-operative bank or a publicly held corporation, with inner-party democracy practised with rules etched in stone. Or even how the CPM and BJP function. AAP is a political party only in name. It is a mobilization for change. It has decided that change will come by capturing political power. To do so, it will turn and swerve as the situation demands. Bhushan and Yadav can carry their constitutions and rule books and other bourgeois accoutrements, but in a charismatic party the most important and probably the only rule is FOLLOW THE LEADER. Quietly and implicitly. Read the biographies of Lenin, Mao and Gandhi among others. read how Castro was happy to send Che Guevara to Bolivia. For that matter recall how Hitler dealt with Rohm and the SA.
The danger comes when the mobilization becomes a party with a bureaucratic apparatus. Thats when the Stalins strike.They lie low close to the leader and when they seize power all residual idealism goes out of the window and only the apparatus of power remains. Thats why I look at Manish Sisodia with suspicion. H e never leaves Kejriwal's side. For some reason he reminds me of Chandrababu Naidu.
Prashant Bhushan has complained to the AAP inner Lokpal about the manner in which money has been raised. Reading history will tell you that Joseph Djugashvilli aka Stalin under thealias of Koba used to rob banks near Tbilisi whenever Lenin wanted money. Lenin had no hesitation in taking the assistance of Kaiser Germany's secret service to prepare for revolution in Russia. Gandhintook money from GD Birla and Kamalnayan Bajaj all the time. As a matter of fact he took money from whoever he could. He stayed in my grandfather's house in Vellore and took away my soon to be married mothers jewellery. My great grandfather acquired his fortune by squeezing farmers he lent money to. Ho Chi Minh took financial and military help from Communist China and no sooner the Americans were driven out Vietnam turned on China. Kejriwal is a child of our history. He has learnt history .well. He is on a well trodden path. As Bob Dylan sang "dont get in the way, if you cant lend a hand!"
Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan offer to opt out of political affairs committee
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/aap-rift-yogendra-yadav-and-prashant-bhushan-offer-to-opt-out-of-political-affairs-committee/articleshow/46424678.cms
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