On the house?

AAP's proposal to waive property tax is impractical

The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP’s) 67-seat majority in the 70-seat Delhi Assembly in 2015 presented it with an invaluable opportunity to deliver honest and efficient governance, the core of its election campaign. Its middling performance since has much to do with the maverick personality of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who has wasted time and political capital chafing against the constraints of Delhi’s status as a state-cum-Union Territory — the proximate reason for the first AAP government lasting 49 days in 2013. Mr Kejriwal’s latest proposal to waive property tax if he is voted to power in the municipal elections of