Buoyed by the stunning debut in last December’s Delhi Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) contested from 434 seats in the General Election. The party fielded a diverse cast of candidates — journalists, activists, businessmen and academics — but managed to win only four seats. After failing to win a single seat on its ‘home turf’ of Delhi, most people are already writing AAP off. But the party, which always manages to make headlines, did challenge the conventional way political parties fight elections. However, with leader Arvind Kejriwal in jail for his refusal to pay the bail amount in a defamation case, the party finds itself in a difficult situation of having to introspect, rebuild and prepare for the future.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 19:30:00 +0000