Kejriwal’s impact on parliamentary elections
April 10 2014
The cat is out of the bag. The elections are already in progress in India with more than 850 million voters to cast their votes across 9,30,000 polling booths in the biggest political show of the democratic world that will last up to May 12. Elections in India are more complex than the election in direct democracies.
In the fierce battle between the two premier political parties of India, there was a new turn with the Aam Aadmi Party knocking at the door with unlimited confidence after its Delhi Legislative Assembly win. The AAP looks all set for getting something between 50-75 seats. There has hardly been another political party that has had the chance to scale the graph of political success in India in such a short time as AAP. On the whole, the party presents novel ideas and factors as compared to the long-standing stale political ideologies of old guard politicians.
Arvind Kejriwal; although a greenhorn in political arena; seems to have gained a good rapport with millions of supporters across the country. With his common man image and mannerisms, Kejriwal has struck a chord with the middle class Indians who had given up all hope of political revival and development in India. Kejriwal does not give the impression of a religious hardliner like Modi; neither does he appear too scholastic like Rahul Gandhi who has little to his credit despite hanging around in the Parliament close to a decade.
After forming the government in Delhi, Kejriwal took some good and swift actions initially but could not hold his ground for a long. He resigned from the seat of Chief Minister just after 49 days of gaining power. Relieved from the responsibilities of running one of the most politically inclined legislative assemblies, Kejriwal concentrated his party’s energies and ideas on the Parliamentary Elections. AAP has fielded over 400 candidates so far for 2014 elections. This sounds quite ambitious for the naive political party that lacks in experience, organisation, administration, rural recognition and support especially outside Delhi but that does not dampen the spirit of the party.
AAP has beyond doubts, captured eyeballs by making an excellent debut in Delhi. It has thrown a tough challenge at the established parties. The biggest hurdle for AAP is its failure to provide stable government in Delhi. Most of the voters see it as Kejriwal’s towering ambition that he did not respect public’s mandate and sacrificed Delhi in order to fan his aspiration of becoming the P.M. of India. People feel that he should have proved his party’s worth first in Delhi before hurriedly taking the bigger steps.
Nonetheless, it is an open secret that AAP has changed the equations of Indian politics.
The cat is out of the bag. The elections are already in progress in India with more than 850 million voters to cast their votes across 9,30,000 polling booths in the biggest political show of the democratic world that will last up to May 12. Elections in India are more complex than the election in...
The cat is out of the bag. The elections are already in progress in India with more than 850 million voters to cast their votes across 9,30,000 polling booths in the biggest political show of the democratic world that will last up to May 12. Elections in India are more complex than the election in direct democracies.
In the fierce battle between the two premier political parties of India, there was a new turn with the Aam Aadmi Party knocking at the door with unlimited confidence after its Delhi Legislative Assembly win. The AAP looks all set for getting something between 50-75 seats. There has hardly been another political party that has had the chance to scale the graph of political success in India in such a short time as AAP. On the whole, the party presents novel ideas and factors as compared to the long-standing stale political ideologies of old guard politicians.
Arvind Kejriwal; although a greenhorn in political arena; seems to have gained a good rapport with millions of supporters across the country. With his common man image and mannerisms, Kejriwal has struck a chord with the middle class Indians who had given up all hope of political revival and development in India. Kejriwal does not give the impression of a religious hardliner like Modi; neither does he appear too scholastic like Rahul Gandhi who has little to his credit despite hanging around in the Parliament close to a decade.
After forming the government in Delhi, Kejriwal took some good and swift actions initially but could not hold his ground for a long. He resigned from the seat of Chief Minister just after 49 days of gaining power. Relieved from the responsibilities of running one of the most politically inclined legislative assemblies, Kejriwal concentrated his party’s energies and ideas on the Parliamentary Elections. AAP has fielded over 400 candidates so far for 2014 elections. This sounds quite ambitious for the naive political party that lacks in experience, organisation, administration, rural recognition and support especially outside Delhi but that does not dampen the spirit of the party.
AAP has beyond doubts, captured eyeballs by making an excellent debut in Delhi. It has thrown a tough challenge at the established parties. The biggest hurdle for AAP is its failure to provide stable government in Delhi. Most of the voters see it as Kejriwal’s towering ambition that he did not respect public’s mandate and sacrificed Delhi in order to fan his aspiration of becoming the P.M. of India. People feel that he should have proved his party’s worth first in Delhi before hurriedly taking the bigger steps.
Nonetheless, it is an open secret that AAP has changed the equations of Indian politics.
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