ASHUTOSH'S 'MEGHA'

AAP neta Ashutosh in tears .
AAP neta Ashutosh howling .
AAP neta Ashutosh begging for forgiveness.
AAP neta Ashutosh saying ' main gunahgaar hoon'

And as the country judged him with every word and every sob , Ashutosh was pouring his heart out on television for a good one and a half hour . What triggered it ? Well, Megha Singh , daughter of the the farmer Gajendra singh who committed suicide, asked him a humble question . She said , " I have no complaints , my father will never come back, but all I ask is , if all the people present there had shown some ( manavta ) humanity , my Father would have been alive! I have nothing against you , you can come and visit us ."
Such poise, such courage , such maturity, by a fifteen year old who saw pictures of her father hung from a tree become the national news is unnerving in many ways ! A fifteen year old who saw her 9 year old brother Raghvendra Singh perform the last rites of her father and has spent the last two days amidst high pitched howling and questions laden with anger by her grandmother was so COMPOSED .She spoke with a mildness that would have shaken the biggest hard nosed neta on  the planet. She asked with such humbleness that would have tugged at the heart of the most calculative neta !
Answering her was an emotional Editor who had spent decades on television asking incisive questions but was now in his new avatar as neta .
Ashutosh broke down .
The one question everyone is asking me is, were the tears genuine ? Yes they were . But they were the vent of a guilt that will not leave the AAP netas who witnessed Gajendra's suicide and did nothing . As they defend themselves on TV saying it was an error of judgement and vehemently put forth their argument  in front of netas of BJP or Congress that accuse, deep inside the past three sleepless nights each one of those AAP netas on stage knows that Gajendra's life could have been saved . Yes , Gajendra Singh would have been alive , if AAP netas would have taken him seriously . They know it .

Conscience .
Guilt .
Doesn't  let the heart live in a peace .But let it go to Ashutosh's credit that his conscience is alive . Politics usually runs havoc with the inner self . Often kills it !
Even as the world discusses Ashutosh's crying and #AshuCries trends on number 1 on Twitter , I salute Megha , I salute her courage . All I can say say is it takes such grace to be composed when you have lost your father like that. It was her humbleness , her softness which did Ashutosh in.