Liberty Equity Sustainability

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”

On a street in Delhi a dance is going on. The Dancers are Arvind Keriwal Manish Sisodia, Kumar vishwas and other leaders of AAP in different dance poses. They are wearing their usual aam admi topis and holding in their hands the truncated Jaadu in the form of Dumroo.

On the Dumroo- FRACTURED MANDATE . People on either side are watching the Dance with a glum. Some wearing caps and holding Jadoos.

And the tune emanating from Dancers- One More Show Please – Ye Dil Maange More Elections- Saath Nahin Kabhi Nahi Aur Sahi DUM DUM DUM DUM !

Assembly election 2013 results in four States Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has wiped  out the influence of Gandhi Dynasty in Indian Polity. AAP’s debut has been explosive .It has devastated the Congress’s voters base. AAP has shown that money power , muscle power  corrupt electoral practices of influencing through cash and liquor to voters to snatch political power will not work any more. The idealism of AAP for clean politics , and promise of people friendly governance policies by AAP in the face corrupt politics of the day by Congress has worked its magic. Most of the traditional voters of Congress has voted for AAP. This shows the terrible anger against the Corrupt regime of Congress. The hubris of corrupt Congress has been humbled by the Aam Aadmi of Delhi.

AAPs success can it be scaled at national level is a big question mark. The constituencies at the national level are not as exactly suitable at this moment for AAP to replicate the victory as in Delhi. But wherever Congress is ruling and Corruption too is in large scale a sizable chunk of the Congress voters can be swung. BJP candidate too may suffer the same. These may happen in urban constituencies where people are either struggling at subsistence level without the bare minimum of life available at reasonable prices or in Constituencies where the arrogance of power of a leader is quite obvious.AAP can get to win on seats where it can take head on against the leader of a party who is insensitive to the needs of a particular constituency in an obvious brazen manner. It can enter the politics of awakening ,appeal to good co nscience of voters to throw out the man not delivering. But  where the other party leaders have delivered through a well organist party cadre even if some miss here or some there may not work in favour of AAP when it comes to national elections..

Since in Maharashtra where the Congress and it’s allies are involved in large scale corruption cases AAP in many Constituencies   can cut through the Congress votes as they did in Delhi. Thus at national level too AAP can decimate Congress though it has not grown in stature to form government on its own. But politics of Indian democracy is in a transition mode. AAP has put a check for power through corruption. At national level elections Congress will face the dual forces of devastation. Modi’s development model of jobs for youth and non corrupt governance and AAP hitting hard at the voters base on corruption issue.In short Gandhi Dynasty is killing Congress. Congress will have to shape better leaders if it has to survive as a GOP. Else it’s end for Congress.