Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'AAP with Congress form govt – no harm!' that was published in Newsband

AAP with Congress form govt – no harm!

Aam Aadmi Party has at last agreed to accept the support of Congress to form the government in Delhi. No harm. It is true that before the election AAP had promised to expose all the black deeds of Congress. They can still expose the corrupt practices of Congress. What is the worst that will happen? Congress will withdraw its support. Next there will be a reelection. If AAP had not accepted the support of Congress and gone for reelection, even then the result would be the same. So there is no harm for AAP in the matter of forming government with the help of Congress.  

The fact that AAP won so many seats in Delhi proves that India has lot of well thinking people and just not people who are dumb and fall easily to popular gimmicks. But the thing is many political parties were free of corrupt persons to start with. AAP will be put to severe test in this regard in the months/years to come.

AAP has been voted to fulfill the promises made to the people. The AAP represents a hope for a most desirable future of politics, governance etc. of this country. But the fact is that their success in Delhi was beyond even their own expectations because Delhi is representative of only a few metropolitan cities in India, where the electorate is, educationally and socially, extremely long way ahead of the rest of the country. AAP should therefore concentrate on repeating their performance in the large cities in the next general elections while keeping in limelight the issue of corruption which is of far more importance to the people and of which all present political parties are guilty of. After all, the AAP was born out of a social movement that tapped into public impatience with the politics of corruption and compromise. For AAP, the battle is won but the war is still not yet over.

This performance of AAP augurs well for the country because we now have a third viable and more preferable honest alternative to the Congress and the BJP.

If AAP had not formed the government with Congress, there would be many people who would say that AAP is not able to handle this quick new found surprising responsibilities and  that it’s easy to be in opposition and point fingers on other for their mistakes in governance.

Now that they have entered politics and won also, they have taken full responsibility of the trust which people have placed on them. All the best to AAP for setting a corruption free India. AAP has indeed made a grand entry into the Indian Politics at a time when it was much required to cleanse the corruption in India. What happened in Delhi seems to be the impact of the 'Broom Revolution' or a tactic aiming the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.

The AAP success in Delhi represents that the middle class and urban elite have recognized it as a political polity. The AAP access to the common man is limited to the urban and urban agglomeration of middle class and the elite. But it has to travel a very, very long distance in our democracy, as the parliament is a place where rural people represent their presence through their representatives. All political parties access the rural masses through their cost free welfare measures at the cost of the share of the middle class. The middle class share was looted by the high index inflation due to UPA’s II fiscal reforms. The AAP should review their policy and give relief to the neglected urban middle class.