NEW DELHI, April 8 -- I have never understood the Aam Aadmi Party and its chief, Arvind Kejriwal. They defy the conventional norms of a political party and its leader. It was birthed by the 2011 anti-corruption movement launched by Anna Hazare, whose single-point demand was setting up Lok Pal as a panacea for all the ills plaguing the country.

For the first time ever, claims were made about the presumptive loss of lakhs of crores of rupees the nation suffered on account of the allocation of 2G spectrum and coal fields. You would laugh if I claimed that I suffered a presumptive loss of hundreds of crores of rupees because I did not choose to be a lawyer specialising in arbitration.

But the point is that Anna Hazare's hunger strike galvan...