AAP has come out  with flying colours in Delhi. So Arvind Kejriwal and his brand of politics must be welcome  and  congratulated for this historic feat. But the results have thrown a fractured mandate and a possible hung assembly if AAP stands against supporting either Congress or BJP to form the government.

AAP has a right to chose what in its  perception is best for a party that had chosen the hard line  stand of calling both BJP and Congress equally corrupt in its poll campaigns to suit the demand for clean politics. What is best for party should also be best for people else hard lines will crack.It wiser to shun Congress for obvious reasons and chose the next alternative and form government.

AAP must be practical and use the advantage of large numbers of MLAs in its fold to extract maximum from the Government that could be formed jointly with BJP  carrying the largest number tag. Be it water connections to people or electricity price revisions etc will now be easier as BJP too is on the same side on these issues. AAP’s stand to ask BJP and Congress to come together to form government is like asking the cat and the mouse to shake hands for peace sake. Absurd, ridiculous ,impossible and frivolous.

AAP has a role to play to strengthen democracy and that can happen only if it learns to live with fractured mandate which may happen time again. AAP is making a strategic mistake of waiting for absolute majority for cleaning Indian politics that’s riddled with factions of sorts.

By joining hands with BJP it stands a better chance to serve democracy as together with BJP the vote share is rather 70%. Which means majority have voted for these to provide a government that works. If AAP takes a hard line and expects another elections it may not translate into an absolute majority for AAP. Others may encash on wastage of votes on party which is waiting to get absolute majority and that wait may be endless.

It would therefore be wiser for AAP to look at the opportunity that the fractured mandate is providing. Support BJP and work on issues that would benefit in the short run as per manifesto and move to show case performance to other areas to increase base for next level of cleaner politics.

The current number in Delhi Assembly  provides a tremendous opportunity to AAP to work with a national party that too is transforming itself under Modi’s leadership on development planks. Since Modi has time again demonstrated that he doesnt tolerate and encourage corruption Kejriwal should find the going easier to extraxt good governance from the transformed BJP.

If the present opportunity is lost AAP will never be able to consolidate its  gains easily , for voters may turn to party that can provide stability first. And BJP is poised for that especially after people friendly policies implemented in state after states governed by BJP.

Idealism is attractive at discourse level. But people of India needs deliverance  from harsh realities of  sufferings and deprivations. If AAP can use the political power it has now got, though in half measure for bettering people’s lives  that can do wonders and keep the chord in harmony with the aspiration of common man by checking the political class from serving themselves  and not people. It requires a serious rethink before posturing a hard line of absolutism and maximal-ism.  No Historical blunder regret can help the cause later.

Politics is the art of possibility. Not just of Dreams and ideals. Romanticism is the realm of poets. Politicians are made for different tasks Though Ideals help to shape these tasks they are goals unattainable therefore ideals  Politics  must serve the ends of justice, of equity, of needs of suffering ones. Absolutism helps not but hinders more .I am reminded of  a saying from Winston Churchill ” If you are not a Communist at the age of twenty, you don’t have a heart and if you continue to be one at the age of  forty then you dont have a head”