AAP effect

The feat of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the recently concluded Delhi elections has not only surprised but also frightened the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. Some leaders of both parties who earlier wanted to contest from one of the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital in the general elections next year are now reportedly reviewing their plans. They are worried that since unknown faces from a one-year-old party managed to beat heavyweights of these well-established parties in the Assembly polls, the AAP and its candidates would emerge even stronger in the general elections.