If AAP gets the anger vote BJP gets the aspiration vote. Both may be evenly matched
Delhi: Worst of cities and best of cities. A city of VIP privileges, yet a city where human dignity is assaulted every day by neta-babu-cop dominance. No wonder it is in Delhi that there’s an incorrigibly constant space for an anti-Establishment, anti-VIP political force.
AAP’s ultra-Left image may send shivers down elite spines. Yet its continuing popularity in low income colonies, its hold on Delhi’s mind space shows not only the enduring relevance of the political gatecrasher but also of a party that caters to those who are so-called losers in the new economy.
Delhi’s had its gatecrashers before. In the late 1980s V P Singh projected Read More