Kejriwal's party has given a platform to the urban and lower middle classes who had no `voice'. Social Media has translated this `faceless--voiceless mass' that political parties had earlier ignored into an avalanche that even Kejriwal perhaps doesn't know how to manage. A behemoth has been unleashed--and all are running scared.
Here is a space for those who have no `political lineage' to find their voices in the other established parties, much the same as BJP did provide an open platform in 1990.
Both BJP & AAP have one thing in common--an opportune agenda that suits the mood of the times. The difference lies in their history. BJP did not begin on a clean slate for the RSS platform had been around for a century before it gave it a political voice. But Kejriwal's Party is rising from a clean slate.
Congress has to look at the BJP's graph in the last 23 years to see where it can go---a real challenger to the established political system.Clearly this is not an overnight sensation---it was and has been simmering all along. Unless the lessons are learnt, there is no way of knowing where public opinion may go. But could it end Culottes verses Sans culottes. Take heed o venerable ones--Old wine in new bottles will not do.
Here is a space for those who have no `political lineage' to find their voices in the other established parties, much the same as BJP did provide an open platform in 1990.
Both BJP & AAP have one thing in common--an opportune agenda that suits the mood of the times. The difference lies in their history. BJP did not begin on a clean slate for the RSS platform had been around for a century before it gave it a political voice. But Kejriwal's Party is rising from a clean slate.
Congress has to look at the BJP's graph in the last 23 years to see where it can go---a real challenger to the established political system.Clearly this is not an overnight sensation---it was and has been simmering all along. Unless the lessons are learnt, there is no way of knowing where public opinion may go. But could it end Culottes verses Sans culottes. Take heed o venerable ones--Old wine in new bottles will not do.
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