<b>Letters:</b> Contender, not winner

With reference to Shekhar Gupta’s article, “Writings on the Punjab wall” (February 4), it would be foolish to write the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) off in Punjab. Whether or not the AAP emerges winner in the polls, it will surely eat into the votes of the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
 
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is smart enough to target only those states where either the BJP or the Congress have ruled; hence he has zeroed in on Delhi, Goa, Gujarat and Punjab.
 
Assembly polls are being held in Uttar Pradesh,