Just brandishing brooms in the air is not governance. I get the strong feeling that the Aam Aaadmi Party (AAP), having had a great journey has lost its nerve on reaching the platform. The train stops here, old son, time to get off and get to work. You identified the problem, now you become the solution. All these delay tactics and this recent cheap shot about asking the public what the public thinks about it forming the government is merely eyewash. What are you going to do, take a consensus? The support has already been given. It is one thing to sit in judgment but when you are holding the hot potato it’s quite another.

With every passing moment they are letting down all those who wished them well. Why is Kejriwal asking for ten days time from the Lt. Governor to make up his mind? Your party stood for the elections, right? Not for fun but to upstage the Congress and to usher in a new era cleansed of corruption and ineptitude.

This is what history always says. Be careful what you ask for, you might get it. They have got it and now they haven’t a clue what to do with it. This display of humility is rubbish and impresses nobody. You were elected to rule not be humble. That trick is wearing thin. Every day we have this ‘we are simple’ people homily and the people are getting bored of it. We want courage and conviction, not piety.

The longer they take to do what they set out to do  the more people are going to feel the disquiet and suddenly Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi will look a lot more secure and workable. At least it was going places. Now we have a shy bride playing coy and the scary part dawning on all those who were cock a hoop over the AAP is that even if they did form a government with reluctance, between them they have no idea of running it.

Various things that could happen— Mr. Kejriwal could get Z security and start zooming about in cavalcades. So much for the ordinary man. His MLAs could be introduced to political clout and as we know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So much for the ordinary man. The more things change the more they stay the same.

The bureaucracy could enjoy this incompetence to such an extent it would become the master of its masters and run rings around them. Can you see the administrative officers licking their chops in glee over these innocent lambs being led to their political slaughter? So much for the ordinary man. With great expectations come great disappointments.

Wake up, AAP and get cracking, you asked for it…now use those brooms to sweep clean before the system swallows you up. You are not performing and that is not good enough. Your passive bashfulness is on the verge of getting very boring. Modesty becomes indecent when it has no back up.

And while we are on the subject, I apologise for my naïve question but will someone, who knows, clarify whether Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal are buddies or foes or what…I, for one, have completely lost track.