This refers to the report "AAP stoops to conquer Delhi" (December.24). It is unfair to say that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has stooped to come to power in Delhi. Accepting the challenge of politicians to defeat them in the election and make laws, Arvind Kejriwal formed AAP and has stunned the traditional political players by gaining power in Delhi within a year. He has smashed the belief that honest and unresourceful common man has no place in electoral politics where opaque funding, identity vote bank and money and muscle power are essential to win polls. Having fallen short of majority, AAP's referendum to obtain public opinion on formation of government through various means of direct public contact has saved the people of Delhi from re-election and the consequent heavy burden on the exchequer. The party has neither given any assurance to the Congress nor signed with it any agreement (the Congress had voluntarily extended unconditional support to AAP in a letter sent to the Lt Governor of Delhi). AAP's transparent method of government formation is a rebuke to the parties that fight elections against each other and make unholy opportunistic post-poll alliances to grab power. AAP has made attractive promises to the people of Delhi, which the politicians believe are impossible to fulfill. Kejriwal's monumental challenge now is to deliver on those promises. His success will set the future course of Indian politics.
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