I have briefly discussed about both Congress and BJP in previous posts. Today my focus is on a relative new comer in Indian politics i.e. AAP. AAP is an offshoot of the popular movement against corruption in the leadership of Anaa Hazare. AAP is led by Arvind Kejriwal who was the main negotiator of Anna Hazare camp during India Against Corruption movement. When the movement fizzled out by the apathy of UPA Govt, Arvind Kejriwal started a political outfit to fight the battle against corruption.
AAP was launched in Nov 2012 and their first battle was the assembly election of Delhi in Dec 2013. AAP was launched as a political alternative against mainstream parties like Congress and BJP. They employed some remarkable methods to fight the elections whether it is selecting the upright candidates, funding of elections, campaigning by utilising non profit volunteers. AAP was talking about people's revolution against the unimaginative and corrupt political class of India. It was the manifestation of anger among the people for loss of economic opportunity because of the financial meltdown across all over the world including India.
AAP's idea, about Swaraj, corruption free country and empowerment of people so that minimum government would be required, struck a cord in Delhi. AAP formed the Govt. in Delhi taking issue based outside support from Congress. But soon it became clearer that there are many areas on which AAP has to evolve to become a larger political party. Anti-corruption and decentralization can not be the only two planks on which AAP can contribute. In its haste to go for an all out change, AAP has made major mistakes by resigning from Delhi and then subsequently contesting national elections at a pan India level. There are micro level changes which are introduced by the entry of AAP style politics but one has to bear in mind that for overhauling of any institution we need systemic changes which comes incrementally keeping in mind the adaptability of general pubic to appreciate it fully. Sadly, AAP will have to learn this the hard way.
AAP was launched in Nov 2012 and their first battle was the assembly election of Delhi in Dec 2013. AAP was launched as a political alternative against mainstream parties like Congress and BJP. They employed some remarkable methods to fight the elections whether it is selecting the upright candidates, funding of elections, campaigning by utilising non profit volunteers. AAP was talking about people's revolution against the unimaginative and corrupt political class of India. It was the manifestation of anger among the people for loss of economic opportunity because of the financial meltdown across all over the world including India.
AAP's idea, about Swaraj, corruption free country and empowerment of people so that minimum government would be required, struck a cord in Delhi. AAP formed the Govt. in Delhi taking issue based outside support from Congress. But soon it became clearer that there are many areas on which AAP has to evolve to become a larger political party. Anti-corruption and decentralization can not be the only two planks on which AAP can contribute. In its haste to go for an all out change, AAP has made major mistakes by resigning from Delhi and then subsequently contesting national elections at a pan India level. There are micro level changes which are introduced by the entry of AAP style politics but one has to bear in mind that for overhauling of any institution we need systemic changes which comes incrementally keeping in mind the adaptability of general pubic to appreciate it fully. Sadly, AAP will have to learn this the hard way.
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