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Arvind Kejriwal has had aspirations to become India’s prime minister since the day he sat on stage with Anna Hazare at the Ramlila Maidan as an obscure bureaucrat-turned-activist trying to make India corruption-free. His journey from that stage to Delhi chief minister’s office has been miraculous and full of drama, especially if you consider his resignation that came on a whim, and the subsequent re-election. Since then, Kejriwal has quickly turned from an over-enthusiastic ‘
Nayak-style’ activist to a calculative politician who has figured out the thumb rule of making it big in Indian politics.
Clutch on to power with all your might and try to grab more of it. He ventured into Punjab and Gujarat but realised something was missing. Something stopped him from being catapulted into the league of extraordinary politicians, like Prime Minister Narendra Modi who seems invincible, at least for a decade to come. But Kejriwal’s recent speech in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha seems to indicate that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener has found the missing ingredient to become the alternative to Narendra Modi — Ram Bhakti.