By TCN News Desk,
Today is the floor test of new CM of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal. Since he is too busy to give appointment to TCN, our news desk held a mock interview with him where he answers every question using maxims of prominent people. Following are the excerpts of the interview:
1. AAP has bagged 28 seats in the state election and you have become 7th CM of New Delhi. How is it to become a politician from an activist?
A.K. : I believe in what HL Mencken once said, “A good politician is quite unthinkable as an honest burglar”. Therefore I wish to remain as aam aadmi only.
2. After assuming office you might have understood that according to your manifesto there are many undefined problems. Will you be able to solve them?
A.K. : I believe in what Robert A. Humphrey once said, “An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions”. Don’t worry, we will certainly fulfill what we have said in our manifesto.
3. You are showing great intensity in work soon after assuming office. Are you going to work with the same spirit and intensity in future?
A.K. : I believe in what Will Rogers once said, “Even if you are on the right track , you get run over if you just sit there”. We have assumed office to work and definitely we will deliver till we are in office.
4. You are in power till the Congress supports your party. What if they revoke their support?
A.K.: I believe in what Don Ward once said, “Others can stop you temporarily, only you can do it permanently”. That will stall implementation of our manifesto only till we come to power in future elections.
5. Congress and BJP are in politics for number of years. AAP is like a child to them in politics. What do you want to say on this?
A.K.: Don’t forget what William Wordsworth once said, “The child is father of the man”. At times it becomes very difficult for father to control his child. The whole world is watching the changed political situation in Delhi.
6. AAP has promised many things before elections. Will you be able to fulfill all of your promises by changing the running system?
A.K.: Once James Baldwin has said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”. I don’t have magic wand with me to change everything. We will try to fulfill promises as much as we can.
7. You started well by declaring that you will announce a number to public to report about corrupt officials. That will certainly help in containing corruption but still you have a long distance to go to make New Delhi a corruption free state.
A.K.: My answer to this lies in what Marquise du Deffand once said, “The distance is nothing, its only the first step that is difficult”.
8. What do you like to say on the allegation put forward by Nitin Gadkari that there was a deal between AAP and Congress?
A.K.: This allegation was raised just before my oath. Such allegations will keep coming till we are in the politics and aam aadmi loves us because FC Hayes has rightly said, “The wind blows strongest against those who stand tallest”.
9. What was your first advice to AAP ministers once you assumed the office?
A.K.: I repeated what Caroline K Simon has once said, “Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog”.
10. BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is projecting development carried out in Gujarat and is promising to change the whole India into a developed country. What do you want to say on this?
A.K.: I would like to remind him what Leo Tolstey once said, ”Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”.
11. When your party won over Congress in the state elections then Rahul Gandhi had said that they have to learn from AAP. What message you would like to give to Rahul Gandhi through TCN.
A.K.: I would advise Rahulji what Confucius once said, “To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle”.
12. Do you think AAP can form government at centre in future?
A.K.: Buckminister Fuller has rightly said, “There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly”. Do you have any doubt?
13. You came to recognition due to Anna then parted ways and formed AAP. Today you became CM and proved that you are smarter than Anna.
A.K.: Anna is my guru. Guru always remains guru. Remember what R.H. Grant has once said, “When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are”.