No wave, just a Tsunami says Lord Megnad Desai

by Rishi Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:10 pm

Even so, these are early days. Radical, movement-based parties taste success at first but do not always repeat it. We need to see if AAP can be scaled up. Delhi is a municipality (or two), not a real state. You can do intense door-to-door canvassing with a few hundred volunteers. Mumbai will be different as the Shiv Sena used the same techniques 50 years ago and is entrenched there at street level. Kolkata is a perpetual battleground between the Trinamool Congress and CPM gangs for local control. No entry there.

Still, good luck to them. Their success has led the secular friends of the Congress to the new delusion that AAP shows there is room for an anti-Congress/anti-BJP party. Ergo, all regional parties will gain from this experience and stop the BJP, especially Modi, from winning. Alas, the premise is as false as the conclusion. AAP is anti-Establishment and thus parties such as the SP, BSP, RJD even JD(U) cannot steal its clothes. AAP is as anti-Congress as it will be anti-Lalu or Mayawati. If the Congress lovers want consolation, they better look elsewhere.

But not to Rahul. This election is unusual in as much as several long cycles in Indian politics are coming to a turning point, if not an end. The cycle begun by Indira Gandhi in 1969 concentrating and centralising all authority in the family has finally run its course. Dynasties end when a glittering succession of good rulers ends in one who has no vocation for the job. We are past Akbar and even Aurangzeb and staring at Shah Alam. The idea that Rahul will yet once more change the party and make it winnable shows that the Congress cannot see that the problem cannot be the solution. The nonchalance with which Rahul endorsed AAP and promised to follow its path showed that he is a dilettante in politics. He had just discovered a new App — the AAP app. He was going to buy it online and use it. Good luck to him and all who put faith in him.

So who gets the prize for the coming decimation of the Congress. Pehle AAP or Rahul?

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by Merlot Daruwala Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:30 am

Haha..good one. Lol @ "Dynasties end when a glittering succession of good rulers ends in one who has no vocation for the job. We are past Akbar and even Aurangzeb and staring at Shah Alam."

Also... "This is why Arvind Kejriwal in his moment of triumph ought to discount his victory. The Congress had abandoned Sheila Dikshit long ago, lest she win a fourth term and be a threat to you know who. Rahul duly turned up three hours late for a rally to boost Dikshit's chances so that no one should be in any doubt how much he wanted her to win. All that food security launch, Aadhar card etc were just for the general elections. No way was the wrong woman going to get credit for those goodies."

by confuzzled dude Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:08 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Haha..good one. Lol @ "Dynasties end when a glittering succession of good rulers ends in one who has no vocation for the job. We are past Akbar and even Aurangzeb and staring at Shah Alam."

Also... "This is why Arvind Kejriwal in his moment of triumph ought to discount his victory. The Congress had abandoned Sheila Dikshit long ago, lest she win a fourth term and be a threat to you know who. Rahul duly turned up three hours late for a rally to boost Dikshit's chances so that no one should be in any doubt how much he wanted her to win. All that food security launch, Aadhar card etc were just for the general elections. No way was the wrong woman going to get credit for those goodies."

Even if we give 150% credit to him for AAP's victory he doesn't appear to possess the qualities to run a state, it's one thing to claim moral high grounds another to run a state, where one has to be practical.

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