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Prices are high because people not like us have stolen money that belongs to people like us.
Electricity tariffs are a conspiracy.
Privatisation of water is an American plot.
Once in power, he will perforce compromise to a degree on these long-held beliefs. But the broader track of his economic programme is clear.
He insists he is not anti-business; but then, you don't have to say out loud you're anti-business to view all of it with blanket suspicion.
There was a time in this country, not so long ago, when all wealth creators were suspect. Mr Kejriwal is very much a man of that time. He is a man who believes in upholding laws, not in altering them to enhance growth.
His party believes efficiency is born of prohibitions and controls - in banning water tankers, in controlling private-school fees.
Prices are too important a factor, he believes, to be left to the market.
Ideally, 'the people' should decide what prices are. Some of us see a contradiction in that.
Cartoon: Satish Acharya