Kejriwal targeting Modi to pave way for national politics, but is he choosing the right issues?

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal has his own brand of national politics wherein he sits in Delhi, and does national politics through statements or writing letters etc. Since people from every state of the country live in Delhi, they also feel that he is doing politics across the country. For example, on the occasion of Onam on Thursday, Kejriwal printed a one-page advertisement. Onam is a festival of South India and especially Kerala, but in Delhi, Kejriwal got a one-page advertisement printed and also congratulated by tweeting in Malayalam language. In this way he ‘carried out’ the politics of Kerala. With such advertisements, he continues to do politics of other states. Although the weapon of advertising is with every state government, but the Delhi government has made it into a ‘Brahmastra’.

Similarly, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, in which he said that 80 percent of the schools in the country have become junkyards and their condition is dilapidated. Now the question is, what should the Prime Minister do in this? Education is the subject of the state government, so Arvind Kejriwal should have written a letter to the chief ministers of the states. Moreover, on that basis, if he has any survey of the schools that have become junk, and has the required data to back his claim, he should, ideally, have written letters to the Chief Ministers and Education Ministers of the states, telling them how many schools have become junkyards in which state. But, that would not have projected him as a ‘national leader’, so he wrote a letter directly to the Prime Minister. They directly target the Prime Minister on the matter so that his party can say that Kejriwal’s fight is with Modi.