The AAP is on the verge of imploding. The media coverage of the last few days of the ‘principled’ war inside the party has shown up that the individuals who formed the AAP are no different than those from the existing political parties. When capable, educated and intelligent people are unable to sort out their problems in a civilised manner and have to wash their ‘dirty linen’ in public, it creates doubts in the minds of the public on the organisations they run.
Thus AAP has received or will receive a severe credibility ‘shock’ from which it may find it difficult to recover. The precursor of things to come was hinted to by Arvind Kejriwal who stated publicly that if Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan remain within the party then he would be forced to consider setting up a separate party with the 67 AAP MLA’s elected in Delhi. This shows Kejriwal’s greed for the ‘kursi’ since for him and AAP that is the stable short-term since they have been elected for a non-negotiable 5 year term.
Unless there is some stupidity or ‘harakiri’ like Kejriwal resorted to in his last tenure of office there should be no ripples in their life. Quite a change from his public statements over the last few years that he was not looking for any position – ‘Mujhe kuch nahin chahiye.’ How people change when they know they are holding the reins of power and Kejriwal is no different after the massive mandate that he received at Delhi.
Also for a person who criticized the existing political parties in every breath, Kejriwal was saying that any other party would have thrown out Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan for their anti-party activities. So Kejriwal finds it convenient to use other party’s policies when it suits him or is it that the other parties are not so bad after all! All in all the AAP abbreviation that is a manner of respectful address no longer suits the party and they would be better off with the more appropriate – ‘Tu-Tu’.
