YPOST

THE FUTURE AND AAP

               

“One of the most magical moments of this election, the moment when people saw politics once again as an act of faith and hope, was the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party.”

Thousands of people including students, retired professionals, journalists and housewives saw in AAP a new phenomenon which renewed their faith in citizenship. In fact, the story of AAP is not just AAP’s story, it is the story of these people reinventing politics and themselves. AAP may not win many seats but it is an exemplary exercise. It will continue to reinvent itself long after this election is over. A revolution has started in India and this will bring real change in the way we conduct politics in the country. The new polity will not tolerate corruption in the country. The suffering of the people at the hands of government officials and the system will go away with the rise of people like Arvind Kejriwal. He is the medium for change.

AAP is experimental. As a result, it is not inflexibly tied to any ideology or any charter of the future. AAP wants politics to be full of surprises. In that sense, it is not a planned rocket but a wager. It does not need the mass leader in a fascist sense but insists that citizenship, when it is no longer passive, is a form of leadership. It takes problem-solving in a modest way realising that solutions to work are contextual and local. AAP requires a million exemplars to sustain itself as a paradigm. In doing this, it breaks the fossilisation of democracy as a fetish of rights, elections and governance.

It is the democratisation of democracy that makes AAP the party of the future. I think this is why we have to look at AAP differently, expect more but expect the less predictable from it. This is what makes it the party of the future and a party with a future.

The AAP just needs to remain as it is today- resolute, unbowed and strict to the principles. Corruption free nation must remain the sole agenda.

Most electors are not fools anymore, thanks to this age of information bonanza. The moment one compares AK’s governance, amidst this extraordinary hue and cry, with just common sense. The fact becomes obvious in his favour. He performed better than rationally expected in this short period of just 49 days. The last argument can be, his being a minority government, tried best to deliver the promises it made. It’s conceivable by neutrals.

There are millions more who just do not vote for one or the other political players in India. They, rather, watch the complete game, judge the players, from out of the ring and then put their hands together to clap – to push the EVM bottom in this case. AK’s AAP is ready to sail in the gifted narrow vacuum between Congress’s corruption and BJP’s communalism. It’s captain must remain ever watchful of his small boat amidst strong winds of BJP and Congress as well as of the danger during the journey ahead of the dark unknown nights – where some of his co- sailors may turn into monster sharks or killer storms for him and his new party. Let’s hope for the best!

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Ravneet Rikhraj

M.Sc Media P.G 1