Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'AAP should not be underestimated' that was published in Newsband

AAP should not be underestimated
Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party need to recover lost ground in the Capital. The five-year-old party has tremendous comeback ability. It was routed in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, but nine months later, it created poll history by winning 67 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi.
AAP was born out of a people’s movement against corruption. According to AAP, It was not Modi wave, but EVM wave that was responsible for BJP victory in Delhi Municipal Council elections in 2017.  Instead of making excuses, AAP and Kejriwal should go back to people and explain his government’s policies. The Kejriwal government is seen as working for only 40% of the population, which lives in slums and unauthorised colonies. Middle class, which is a vital class, needs AAP’s attention too.  
The party needs to shun its confrontationist image and have a more constructive outlook. Kejriwal has to start delivering on his promises. The AAP’s weakest link is its “missing” volunteers who owing to the inability of the leadership to empower volunteers left many of them disenchanted.
But anyway, AAP rocks. Even after negative campaign by media and IT cell of BJP, he got 25% vote share. If he would have got little more, say 4 to 5% then result would be different. AAP should develop patience and make strategy to counter fake social and print media.
AAP has a future as the alternative of the Congress party. It is very important to have AAP as part of main stream politics in India. But AAP should transform itself as Aam Aadmi party, in terms of its actual meaning by connectivity with the masses to solve real issues. It’s not all about the ego of one man Arvind Kejriwal.

AAP has capability to bounce back. On ground they have really done many good job, more is expected but LG is great obstacle. Why should elected government take permission from LG? If LG is the head then what is need of MLAs and government in Delhi?

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