Litmus test for AAP
31 Dec 2014 6:35 AM IST
The new year has already sounded a political battle cry of ‘perform or perish’ for AAP particularly in a situation when the Congress is also fighting for its survival with full force and the BJP led by national president Amit Shah is riding the victory juggernaut of Narendra Modi with all his might.
The first setback occurred to the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on January 11, when he could not manage a surging crowd at his ‘Janta Darbar’ held in front of the Delhi Secretariat. He announced several decisions from setting up committees to regularising contractual employees to SIT on 1984 Sikh riots to FIR against Reliance and Union cabinet minister and finally a dharna at Rail Bhawan against Union government on “Khirki Extension” issue and finally submitted his resignation of February 14 to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
AAP fielded its candidates from 434 Lok Sabha seats but won only four in Punjab. All its celebrity faces and senior leaders like Yogendra Yadav and Mayank Gandhi including Arvind Kejriwal lost the elections. Even worse, the party lost all its seven seats in Delhi besides security of its 418 Lok Sabha candidates were also forfeited.
The political rout created ideological differences within the party leading to exit of leaders like Shazia Ilmi, G R Gopinath, Vinod Kumar Binny, M S Dhir, Asho Kumar, Ashwani Kumar and Kumar Vishwas became almost inactive. The year will also have a final say on future of AAP which have consolidated itself in Delhi following a rout in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
“We will get comfortable majority this time,” said Nagender Sharma, spokesperson of AAP.
Kejriwal has also begun full-fledged campaign much before elections were announced with request of Poorna Bahumat (full majority). However, the AAP chief has taken a lead by declaring his candidate’s list of 62 out of 70 seats for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.
The first setback occurred to the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on January 11, when he could not manage a surging crowd at his ‘Janta Darbar’ held in front of the Delhi Secretariat. He announced several decisions from setting up committees to regularising contractual employees to SIT on 1984 Sikh riots to FIR against Reliance and Union cabinet minister and finally a dharna at Rail Bhawan against Union government on “Khirki Extension” issue and finally submitted his resignation of February 14 to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
AAP fielded its candidates from 434 Lok Sabha seats but won only four in Punjab. All its celebrity faces and senior leaders like Yogendra Yadav and Mayank Gandhi including Arvind Kejriwal lost the elections. Even worse, the party lost all its seven seats in Delhi besides security of its 418 Lok Sabha candidates were also forfeited.
The political rout created ideological differences within the party leading to exit of leaders like Shazia Ilmi, G R Gopinath, Vinod Kumar Binny, M S Dhir, Asho Kumar, Ashwani Kumar and Kumar Vishwas became almost inactive. The year will also have a final say on future of AAP which have consolidated itself in Delhi following a rout in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
“We will get comfortable majority this time,” said Nagender Sharma, spokesperson of AAP.
Kejriwal has also begun full-fledged campaign much before elections were announced with request of Poorna Bahumat (full majority). However, the AAP chief has taken a lead by declaring his candidate’s list of 62 out of 70 seats for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.
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