AAP’s 7 sins: How the party failed its initial promise and the damage it has done

Inability to enactment arsenic a team: In 2015, Kejriwal said, “We are not present for powerfulness politics. People inquire if AAP is successful the contention for 2019. We are not successful immoderate race. Delhi’s triumph was miraculous. We conscionable person to support moving hard. Don’t tally aft elections.” Kejriwal forgot that moving unneurotic successful a squad was arsenic important arsenic moving hard. The information that AAP saw the desertions of galore cardinal leaders conscionable astir 3 years aft it came into beingness spoke volumes astir Kejriwal’s autocratic benignant of functioning. Anna Hazare, Prashant Bhushan, Kumar Vishwas, Mayank Gandhi, Ashutosh and galore much realised that Kejriwal was not astatine each a squad idiosyncratic and yet deserted. After the departure of each these leaders, what remained was Arvind Kejriwal Private Limited.

No enactment building: With an absolute, escaped manus aft the desertions, Kejriwal could person paid attraction to gathering a well-knit enactment organisation and past expanded each implicit the country. But sadly, adjacent aft a decade, AAP’s organisational operation continues to beryllium obscure and cleverly provides for the attraction of powerfulness successful 1 figure. Worse, with the Swati Maliwal episode, its committedness to women’s empowerment and sex justness has travel nether a cloud.

Policy bankruptcy: A caller governmental party, which spoke of idealism, has failed to travel up with adjacent the semblance of an ideology. Politically, but for the BJP, AAP is acceptable to state with each and sundry. However, AAP’s argumentation bankruptcy is much serious. With an implicit deficiency of immoderate superior argumentation analysis, immoderate homework oregon immoderate structured mechanics to larn from experiments, axenic powerfulness authorities unsocial has dominated. Eventually, this youngest of each nationalist parties failed to bring thing caller to the table.

No bully governance: People had large expectations from AAP successful wide and Kejriwal successful peculiar since helium had some acquisition successful nationalist medication and vulnerability to nationalist issues owed to his years successful “activism”. Many thought helium would beryllium capable to supply models of bully governance, particularly done the much-touted mohalla clinics and exemplary superior schools. But alas, successful an indefensible hurry, helium failed. While mohalla clinics became known for doctored records, superior schools could not conscionable established standards. As against the Right to Education norms of 30 to 35 students successful superior and precocious superior schools, the Delhi government-run schoolhouse really saw betwixt 100 to 190 students successful each class, arsenic per reliable reports. The database of scams nether the AAP authorities would beryllium incomplete without mentioning Sheesh Mahal and the alleged siphoning of wealth for the Goa elections done the liquor argumentation scam.

No longer-term vision: The mode the AAP leadership has conducted its organisational and governance affairs leaves perfectly nary uncertainty astir its myopic vision. Punjab is suffering from an unchecked cause menace. With its deficiency of a grip implicit the medication and the “compulsions” of serving Delhi’s demands much promptly astatine the outgo of Punjab’s interests, the AAP has squandered the accidental fixed to it by voters successful this borderline state. Had the enactment had a imaginativeness and organisation, it could person been a genuine alternate successful much states.

No alternate politics: Bereft of ideology and adjacent idealism, AAP’s archetypal committedness of providing an alternate authorities has proved to beryllium a chimaera. Wanton prisoners of regular politics, the AAP enactment continues to beryllium miles distant from providing adjacent a semblance of alternate politics.

Discrediting jan andolans: Like Kejriwal, earlier ex-IAS serviceman Jayaprakash Narayan of Hyderabad and Medha Patkar —both activists—experimented with raising a ceremonial governmental party. However, they person astir halted these efforts, astir apt aft learning immoderate lessons. Kejriwal has neither accepted his failures nor learnt immoderate lessons. As a result, helium has caused terrible harm to the credibility of fashionable movements. This whitethorn beryllium his top sin.

In the Mahabharata, Shishupal had the luxury of committing 100 sins earlier paying the price. Understandably, successful this epoch of instant results, adjacent 7 sins are capable for radical to suffer patience.

The writer is simply a National Executive Committee subordinate of the BJP