{"id":3667,"date":"2015-12-03T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:17:11","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-vs-santa-and-banta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/arvind-kejriwal-vs-santa-and-banta\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Kejriwal vs Santa and Banta"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Post has a headline right now that says: “Kejriwal speaks out against ‘Santa-Banta’, supports plea to ban jokes on Sikh community.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Kejriwal is doing this, no doubt, because AAP intends to stand for elections in Punjab, and he’s taking what he hopes will be a popular line there. This illustrates what I’ve said all along about the man: he only cares about power, not principle, and will take whatever populist line gets him votes. His opposition to FDI in retail was one example of how he’s against economic freedom. (Such opposition amounts to redistributing wealth from poor consumers to a specific rich interest group, as I pointed out here<\/a>.) And now we find that he doesn’t believe in free speech either. He’ll do whatever it takes to get votes.<\/p>\n

In this, he is no different from any other politician. But he projects himself as being different, which is why pointing out this aspect of his character is important. The politician Kejriwal reminds me of most is the vile Indira Gandhi. And as I wrote recently<\/a>, Narendra Modi also reminds me of Indira in some ways. Talk about picking a bipartisan role model!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Post has a headline right now that says: “Kejriwal speaks out against ‘Santa-Banta’, supports plea to ban jokes on Sikh community.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Kejriwal is doing this, no doubt, because AAP intends to stand for elections in Punjab, and he’s taking what he hopes will be a popular line there. This illustrates what I’ve said all along about the man: he only cares about power, not principle, and will take whatever populist line gets him votes. His opposition to FDI in retail was one example of how he’s against economic freedom. (Such opposition amounts to redistributing wealth from poor consumers to a specific rich interest group, as I pointed out here<\/a>.) And now we find that he doesn’t believe in free speech either. He’ll do whatever it takes to get votes.<\/p>\n

In this, he is no different from any other politician. But he projects himself as being different, which is why pointing out this aspect of his character is important. The politician Kejriwal reminds me of most is the vile Indira Gandhi. And as I wrote recently<\/a>, Narendra Modi also reminds me of Indira in some ways. Talk about picking a bipartisan role model!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nArvind Kejriwal vs Santa and Banta - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/arvind-kejriwal-vs-santa-and-banta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arvind Kejriwal vs Santa and Banta - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First Post has a headline right now that says: “Kejriwal speaks out against ‘Santa-Banta’, supports plea to ban jokes on Sikh community.” Kejriwal is doing this, no doubt, because AAP intends to stand for elections in Punjab, and he’s taking what he hopes will be a popular line there. 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