MASTER OF MANIPULATIONS

ARVIND KEJRIWAL MAKES REPEATED U-TURNS WHETHER IT WAS MISUSING ANNA HAZARE TO FULFIL HIS POLITICAL AMBITION OR USING AND THEN REMOVING FOUNDING MEMBERS OF AAP

- GB REDDY

Arvind Kejriwal (AK), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo, remains an enigma due to his chameleon (a person who often changes his or her beliefs or behaviour in order to please others or to succeed) like personality, behaviour changes best suited to changing environmental political situations to achieve his end objective: by "hook or crook" reach the pinnacle of politics in India - the Prime Minister.

Viewed broadly, AK’s individual personality and behavioural traits are highly complex. Neither ideology worries him nor key features like ethics, morals, values and mental ethical traits bother him. AK is highly calculative in all his moves: exploits and attempts to seize opportunities with disregard to its fallout - political opportunism. AK makes repeated u-turns. His behavioural pattern is a product of contextual inherited life-altering experiences including current day "do or die" vicious politics.

Can such a controversial character be expected to steer the nation on an even keel? Key milestones of AK’s life story are reviewed broadly. Born in Agrawal community in Haryana in August 1968, none can deny credit to AK for his academic par excellence intellectual credentials - a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Served in TATA Steel, Jamshedpur, from 1989 to 1992. Resigned and spent some time in Kolkata, where he met Mother Teresa, and volunteered with The Missionaries of Charity and at the Ramakrishna Mission in North-East and at Nehru Yuva Kendra.