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Arvind 'Tughlaq' Kejriwal

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His strategy of playing the underdog and targeting high-profile rivals was sticking with the people until he turned out to be a serial liar T his man has gone mad. While “mad” is not a standard term in the lexicon of political commentators, I couldn’t find a more apt description for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal based on his behaviour over the past month or two. First, the rabble-rouser who cleverly avoided even mild criticism of Narendra Modi at the formative stage of the Aam Aadmi Party, fearing it would alienate the masses, called the Prime Minister a “coward” and “psychopath”. Thereafter, the self-styled crusader against corruption trained his guns at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, following a CBI raid on the office of Rajendra Kumar, the Chief Minister’s principal secretary facing a hell lot of charges of corruption . Recall that a previous attack on Jaitley, where the AAP had accused him of horse trading , did not stick. Then, Kejriwal does not have the humility to