AAP as a broken shrine of promises

Abdul Hafees

10/03/2015, New Delhi

AAP, the party that formed after an anti-corruption strike from the idea of a slew of politicians and intellectuals, turns nearly three years old in the political spectrum of the country. After remaining in power in Delhi nearly one and half months with some apparent internal spats, the party and its leadership have now reached at a crossroads. Though the landslide victory was heavily celebrated across the country as a wave against the ruling party in the centre, the realm has largely ruined people’s hopes over the party through a series of squabbles.

When the party threw two major fronts down to the dust in the state, as one of which was ruling the centre since eight months and the other was ruling the state for 15 years, its immediate resurrection was regarded not only as the triumph of the public authority over the strategies put forward by the leadership in the state. It was also seen as the onset of a collective retort to the conflagration of communal polarization that has recently been led by a handful of saffron party affiliates in the country.

Nevertheless, the mere conflict of ideas occurred between the leaders, now turned out into a major rift has rendered a large section of people keep away from the party. The removal of the experienced, proficient intellectual leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhusan from its core panel (Political Affairs Committee) has somehow conveyed an indirect message that the party is also riding through the same track following other parties.

The decision to remove the duo from the central panel was taken because they raised their voices against the idea that the party is being single person-centric. They observed that the changes the party dreamt of won’t work out if the decisions are taken only by its national convener and state chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Anyway, the split has broken out. Even though the reconciliation attempts are still on, the graph of people’s trust has been down after these unfortunate occurrences in the party. Even if the government wins to keep its promises, it can hardly make a comeback as before if it is removed from power. Moreover, the party could no longer gain much support as before in other states as well.

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