By Ikkz Ikbal

There was once a man who promised to cleanse Indian politics. Arvind Kejriwal rose to power as a beacon of hope—a symbol of honesty in a system drowning in corruption. He spoke of change, of a political system where power belonged to the people, not to the rich and powerful. Delhi believed him. India watched in admiration. But today, his story stands as a cautionary tale—a tale of how politics in India crushes idealism, and how those who claim to fight the system often become a part of it.

Kejriwal’s journey began with a promise to the common man. He was a man in a simple muffler, a former bureaucrat who had left his comfortable job to fight corruption. He spoke a language that resonated with the middle class and the poor—words filled with dreams, justice, and the hope of a better tomorrow.

He was not like other politicians. He was not here to make money, he said. He was here to serve. He attacked the high and mighty—calling out corruption in Congress, BJP, and every political heavyweight. He assured people that governance could be clean, that elections could be fought without black money, and that a new India was possible.

But as the years passed, his words lost their weight. His party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which started as a movement, began behaving like any other political party. The leader who promised transparency now finds himself surrounded by allegations of........

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