In a scathing attack at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday narrated a story about a “Class 4 educated king”, highlighting the extent to which an egoistic dictator favoured his special friends, regardless of the consequences for the country.
Through the story, the Chief Minister criticised the dictator's actions, pointing out that he granted unprecedented power to a single friend, bestowing airports, seaports, mines, and more, without considering the implications of such decisions.
Narrating the story at his mega rally at Ramlila Maidan, Kejriwal said, “In your childhood you would have heard lots of stories about kings and queens, but in today's story, there is no queen.
There is only the king. This king was not very educated as he was a “4th Pass”, but at the same time he was very egoistic and greedy for money.” Continuing the story, he said that in a village in this kingdom a boy was once born to a mother who belonged to a very poor family.
Just as the tradition was at the time, a fortune teller was called and he told the mother that her son would go on to become a king someday. She could not believe it as she was very poor and wondered how her son would go on to become a king one day.
The son grew up and went to school and since he was not very good at studies he somehow managed to study till Class 4 and then left the school. Kejriwal continued that the boy then started to sell chai at a railway station that was near his house.
He continued, “The boy was good at giving speeches and would talk about everything under the sun. The people who came to the tea stall became his listeners. Once he started speaking, he just would not stop talking.”
The Chief Minister said that as the fortune teller had predicted the boy went on to become the king. Continuing the story, Kejriwal said that eventually the king began to feel bad as everyone referred to him as the “4th Pass King” and therefore he decided to get a fake university degree. “One day he told his citizens that he has a degree in MA,” he said.
Kejriwal continued that one day some officers came to the king and told him that they have an excellent idea.
They informed the king that if he implements this demonetisation scheme, then it will end corruption and terrorism. “The king did not understand much of what the officers said but he thought that it would be a great idea because the officers had said so. So one day he appeared in front of the TV cameras at 8 pm and announced the demonetisation exercise.
Four years later, someone asked him to abolish the note, and he brought an order for it, as he understood nothing,” he said.
He said that similarly some officers went to him and asked him to sign the 'three farm laws'. The king blindly signed it and it caused chaos across the country.
Kejriwal said that during the time of a major pandemic, some officers came and told the king that if the people were asked to come to their balconies and bang their metallic utensils with spoons the pandemic will vanish. This episode underscores the king’s lack of scientific understanding and rational decision-making.
Kejriwal urged the people to spread this story to as many people as possible and urged them to understand its deep message.