Leadership Score: Arvind Kejriwal Is At 7/10 Modi 3/10

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The man everyone wants to know right now is Arvind Kejriwal. He is raw and provocative and has leapfrogged over the usual Indian fissures of caste, religion, gender and wealth. He gives a sense that he has something for the needy and everything against the greedy.

This is appealing to many. He may, if he is able to convince, be the big unpredictable factor in the 2014 General Election. But how does he rank as a leader? How do the other big two, Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, shape up as leaders?

 

We shall take a look at this by applying ten core leadership questions to each of them. We begin with Kejriwal.

1. Does he know why he wants to lead?

Yes. Kejriwal says he is in it to open up the system. He says you have to be inside to clear the way for the masses. This is different from the Sonia Gandhi approach of distance influence. Thus far, Kejriwal has shown disdain for protocol. His recent dharna at Rail Bhavan was the closest that any protest has come physically to Parliament in 40 years.

2. Does he allow his team to function in an atmosphere of truth and transparency?

Yes. You can see the economic activity of the Aam Aadmi Party online. Revenue and expenditure is accounted for. The AAP is willing to consider public opinion in Jammu and Kashmir, as different from what the state thinks. AAP seniors often air different views on serious issues, which is the opposite of programmed thought systems in older parties.

3. Does he pass on his knowledge to his team by communicating with them?

Probably not enough. Communication between Kejriwal and his core team appears to be mostly in the form of physical meetings, which may be limited to an agenda. Also, lessons learned seem to be passing from Kejriwal mostly to Manish Sisodia in the Delhi cabinet. You can see how at least one other minister is struggling in the absence of mentoring.

4. Is he open to ways other than his?

No. Vinod Kumar Binny’s expulsion is too early in an organisation that needs to be inclusive even in the face of affront. Kejriwal has difficulty accommodating the thoughts of Anna Hazare, Santosh Hegde and Kiran Bedi, all former team players. Some of this intolerance is reflecting in new colleagues like Ashutosh, who is draconian in thoughts and words.

5. Does he apply rules to all in his organisation?

Yes. Sitting MLAs cannot contest a Lok Sabha election. No one will use red beacons on vehicles. No one will use expansive official accommodation. No elected representative shall use excessive security cover. Traffic will not be halted to allow AAP ministers to pass. If it’s a choice between people and the government, they will choose people.

6. Does he recruit people smarter than him?

Probably. Only Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav among AAP seniors seem to have a mind of their own. Most of the others appear to come from intent more than anything else. Good intent is not necessarily synonymous with a sharp mind. But some people of caliber like Mallika Sarabhai have come on board lately.

7. Does he repeat things often enough for them to be remembered?

Yes. The central message is change. The prime campaign is against corruption. The principal objective is to hand power to the people in the form of neighbourhood committees. Jan Lokpal it will be. Kejriwal has repeated these things hundreds of times. He sticks to them at the risk of coming across as simplistic, which he is not.

8. Does he choose wisely from history to learn?

Yes. Kejriwal seems to have picked politics lessons principally from Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Among those living, he counts Anna Hazare as his guru. He has not looked elsewhere although Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel offer magnificent insights as well. Kejriwal doesn’t seem to read right or left. His focus is the centre.

9. Does he think facts are sacred?

No. He glossed over the penalty he owed the state for violating terms of duty. He didn’t tell Anna Hazare about the SMS cards on Hazare’s name. He waved a letter from the Uganda High Commission to justify Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti’s conduct. The letter wasn’t written to him. It had nothing to do with Bharti’s raid.

10. Does he let his team fail?

Yes. The AAP has not got anything right in the south of India yet. Some of its seniors have gotten into a flap over inappropriate work ethics caught on video tape. One of his ministers has been stumbling ever since he took up office. Yogendra Yadav couldn’t pacify the rebel MLA Binny.

Marks scored: 7/10. 1 mark for a yes, 0 for a no, half a mark for probably.

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The man to beat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election is Narendra Modi. He seeks to be only the second person in India to move straight from chief minister to prime minister. [HD Deve Gowda was the first.]

Modi has moved to pole position partly because of his aggressive and prolific campaign with a single message, free India of the Congress, and partly because of the undeveloped skills of his principal rival, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress.

 

Although Modi has not displayed much original thought or vision yet, he comes across as a man of ideas because the others are so tepid. This creates an image that works for him. And since impressions travel wider than facts, Modi has established a substantial lead in public perception.

But how does he actually shape up as a leader? Does he have the core skills needed to qualify as a leader? Let us take a look.

1. Does he know why he wants to lead?

Yes. Modi has no doubts here. He is there to be prime minister. He is in it to extend his Gujarat model to the rest of India. He seeks to energise India using the tools he is comfortable with. There is no number 2 in the BJP right now. He hammered this into the minds of BJP seniors and now he wants to embed this in the minds of the voters.

2. Does he allow his team to function in an atmosphere of truth and transparency?

No. Only a few police officers have spoken about what may have actually transpired in Gujarat in 2002. We don’t have anything from Modi’s ministers yet. Modi’s trusted aide Amit Shah is opaque and secretive – like his boss. Modi’s online team likes to function underground, like the Maoists do.

3. Does he pass on his knowledge to his team by communicating with them?

Probably not. We never hear of what Modi’s peers think. There isn’t a single mention of what anyone in Modi’s Gujarat cabinet may have learned from him. BJP seniors in Delhi seem to meet Modi only if they have to. There is no warmth, which is often an aftereffect of open communication.

4. Is he open to ways other than his?

No. Modi has no mindspace for Nitish Kumar, for instance, after the Bihar chief minister objected to the projection of Modi for the top post. Modi does not appear to trust anyone with ideas of their own, and this makes others distrust him. Jayalalithaa – a strong personality – too seems to have moved away from Modi of late.

5. Does he apply rules to all in his organisation?

No. Modi can speak his mind but the others cannot. Keshubhai Patel and Sanjay Joshi are better known examples of people sidelined in Gujarat for not adapting to Modi. But it is the same story with LK Advani in Delhi. The RSS, Sushma Swaraj and Yashwant Sinha have had to make peace with Modi to stay in the mix.

6. Does he recruit people smarter than him?

No. All charisma and substance in the Gujarat cabinet seems to reside in Modi. There are no shining stars in Delhi either. Advani, Arun Jaitley and Swaraj are a couple of steps behind Modi. Others like Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Vasundhara Raje and Manohar Parrikar glow from a distance. Modi seems to be about Modi, not Team Modi.

7. Does he repeat things often enough for them to be remembered?

Yes. His personal attacks on the Nehru-Gandhis continued until they developed recall value. Almost everyone who consumes news in India knows who the ‘shahzada’ is, for instance. The current message is that the Congress needs to be obliterated, not merely defeated. It is war and Modi is the ablest general of all. Say it a million times.

8. Does he choose wisely from history to learn?

Probably. Modi appears to have concluded that RSS methods don’t work. He was a swayamsevak for years before he emerged into direct politics. His experience seems to have taught him that subterfuge doesn’t deliver big. Modi has also learned that the Congress does not nurse legacy. This is why he makes moves to appropriate Sardar Patel.

9. Does he think facts are sacred?

No. Gujarat is not in the top 10 in wages. Barely a tenth of the MoUs signed evolved into projects. Manmohan Singh is guilty by association [with A Raja] but Modi is not [Maya Kodnani, convicted in a 2002 Gujarat riots case]. Advani did not speak with Modi when he was made election campaign head. The Modi fable: Advani blessed me.

10. Does he let his team fail?

No. This is why he did not step off the helicopter until they dragged in more people for his election rallies in Madhya Pradesh. This is why he junked Kodnani the moment her status moved from minister to convict. This is why he did not trust the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit and brought in Amit Shah. This is why he prefers his own online team to the BJP IT Cell.

Marks scored: 3/10. 1 mark for a yes, 0 for a no, half a mark for probably

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