Delhi is all set to see Arvind Kejriwal as its chief minister. The Aam Aadmi Party is forming a ministry with outside support from the Congress, the party that it had fought tooth and nail at the hustings bruising it beyond compare. The contradictions are for all to see and yet, the farce is going on. The longevity of such a government is your guess as well as mine.
Now, see the hard facts:-
(a) The BJP has played it safe by staying out of the game as they know that it it would not be too long
when the newly formed government will collapse by the weight of its own contradictions.
(b) The Congress has changed tack - as the AAP agrees to form a government with its support - from
unconditional to conditional support.
(c) The AAP has said a lot of nice things that it would do if voted to power. Will they be able to achieve
any single one out of them without a majority and mind you, the system that they intend to change has
been put in place and patronised by the Congress and the BJP while in power.
So, what does one expect? If the AAP is able to achieve even one item of its manifesto it will be a great moral victory for it leaving the bigger parties licking their wounds. And all the dirty political tricks will be tried out to block such an outcome.
What I feel is that the AAP must endeavour to take spectacular decisions from day one for the benefit of the Delhiites, expose the other political parties for their duplicity and ask the people to give them the majority to serve them better.
Tailpiece.
I still can't fathom the reason as to why the Delhiites didn't give Kejriwal and his party a simple majority to rule. Or are they skeptical about the new political dispensation's capacity to deliver?
PS.
How I wish that with no political party wanting to rule, Delhi should have gone through another election to get a clear winner. The referendum through 'SMSes' by the AAP doesn't hold water as its political opponents might have taken advantage to ask it to govern and then show it in poor light by their machinations!
Now, see the hard facts:-
(a) The BJP has played it safe by staying out of the game as they know that it it would not be too long
when the newly formed government will collapse by the weight of its own contradictions.
(b) The Congress has changed tack - as the AAP agrees to form a government with its support - from
unconditional to conditional support.
(c) The AAP has said a lot of nice things that it would do if voted to power. Will they be able to achieve
any single one out of them without a majority and mind you, the system that they intend to change has
been put in place and patronised by the Congress and the BJP while in power.
So, what does one expect? If the AAP is able to achieve even one item of its manifesto it will be a great moral victory for it leaving the bigger parties licking their wounds. And all the dirty political tricks will be tried out to block such an outcome.
What I feel is that the AAP must endeavour to take spectacular decisions from day one for the benefit of the Delhiites, expose the other political parties for their duplicity and ask the people to give them the majority to serve them better.
Tailpiece.
I still can't fathom the reason as to why the Delhiites didn't give Kejriwal and his party a simple majority to rule. Or are they skeptical about the new political dispensation's capacity to deliver?
PS.
How I wish that with no political party wanting to rule, Delhi should have gone through another election to get a clear winner. The referendum through 'SMSes' by the AAP doesn't hold water as its political opponents might have taken advantage to ask it to govern and then show it in poor light by their machinations!
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