The Aam Aadmi Party claims to be the party of citizen power, the anti-establishment gorilla in the room calling the powerful to account, the opponent of the politics of business as usual. Drawing on the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement in 2012, Arvind Kejriwal and his party arrived in Delhi with a bang.
The 67 seat haul that the AAP won in 2015 in Delhi gave it a spring in its step and an all India dream. For Kejriwal, Punjab was the next frontier after Delhi. But building a party in Punjab from the grassroots in just two short years proved to be beyond the capacity of the Delhi CM. In the end Punjab preferred to repose its faith in a leader Read More
