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AAP Trilogy: Politics of Opportunism - General Election, 2014

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Anything for Vote Most of the experts still wondered about the Delhities being gullible but to their complete surprise the same Delhi people did outsmart AAP by voting for the unrealistic promises. In fact, its there way to say, well fulfill those promises now. Kejriwal was initially confused with the so called mandate but as they digested the election results little bit, the clueless-ness about the purpose of the mandate was clearly evident from their behavior. Media houses were actually embroiled in deep quandary, i.e not in a position to continue supporting Congress against popular public sentiments neither interested in promoting the rising sentiments in favor of BJP. Sooner than later AAP became the blue eyed boy of the entire print & electronics media with 24/7 coverage of all the developments including the nonsense ones. The Great India Nautanki Show hosted by Kejriwal, catered cheap entertainment to public across India. For a moment the impression was BJP's all rou...

AAP Trilogy: A Phenomena called “AAP Begins…

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Not Really A young IRS officer left his lucrative job in Income tax department and started an NGO for a change in the system. It's almost a decade since he actually started on this mission even being on job. Then he met an old man who too a staunch Gandhian,  a champion of many social reforms and a political crusader. They had many things in common what they called their vision for India i.e. an India free from Corruption and ruled by principles of  Swaraj. Eventually, the duo had some common ground on the issue of Lokpal Bill and agreed to start a protest against the incumbent system. Initially it looked more like a symbolic protest at Jantar Mantar by the veteran Gandhian supported by a small number of people. However, there was very sparse presence of people from across different sections of society. They were the people otherwise very anguished on the current political system. Ignorant of the ground reality, Sangha, otherwise dissatisfied with the Incumbent polit...