Phoning it in

Atal Bihari Vajpayee set the trend with his famous vote-canvassing exercise via pre-recorded messages sent to phones ahead of the 2004 general elections. Now Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has gone one step ahead and started sending recorded messages to both landlines and mobiles listing the misdeeds of the ruling Congress party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital. A senior AAP member said one such call even went to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Her immediate reaction was not recorded.