Kejriwal's AAP's Resounding Victory Over Modi's BJP in Delhi

[Levina]

She came across as extremely pseudo and lost a lot of her respect built up over the years. Fact.

She sounded so because she isn't as "experienced" as Kejriwal.

 

[utraash]

How then Owaisi wins everytime?

Kejri won on an anti India and anti development plank. .

How ? Can you explain a little bit?
Essence of democracy is not giving absolute power to one man or party or institutions however political competition always propel the democracy .....

 

[Steakhouse]

Seem modi don't have the money to spend on the poor to buy their vote.

 

[doppelganger]

She sounded so because she isn't as "experienced" as Kejriwal.

Lets face it @levina ji

Both are opportunist gold diggers. Both are looking at launching their political careers off Anna's campaign.

Muffler became bigger than the rest. So the rest started leaving.

Lets not ascribe holy qualities to people where there are none.

 

[Levina]

Seem modi don't have the money to spend on the poor to buy their vote.

Pls watch this
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Lets face it @levina ji

Both are opportunist gold diggers. Both are looking at launching their political careers off Anna's campaign.

Muffler became bigger than the rest. So the rest started leaving.

Lets not ascribe holy qualities to people where there are none.

Kiran Bedi has a decorous past au contraire Kejriwal has none. On an individual level there's no comparison at all. And afaik Kiran Bedi had always supported Modi so I wasn't surprised when she joined BJP. But yes she has to now work on building her political image.

 

[utraash]

Nope...she doesnt deserve this at all.
May be BJP but not her.

Internal cracks within the bjp led to this scale of debacle......

 

[doppelganger]

Kiran Bedi has a decorous past au contraire Kejriwal has none. On an individual level there's no comparison at all. And afaik Kiran Bedi had always supported Modi so I wasn't surprised when she joined BJP. But yes she has to now work on building her political image.

Do you deny that Kiran Bedi has political ambitions and when she saw that with muffler around there was no place for her to grow, she jumped ship and joined the party with the momentum?

Can you say with conviction that today if that party had been the Congress, she would not have joined them?

 

[gau8av]

She deserves to lose.

I wouldn't say she deserved to lose but there goes the 'hindu vote' theory if BJP lost from there.

 

[doppelganger]

I wouldn't say she deserved to lose but there goes the 'hindu vote' theory if BJP lost from there.

Why would a Hindu vote be needed everywhere?

Are Hindus brain dead automatons to not realize where their combined heft really counts? And from there, to make it count.

 

[Levina]

Do you deny that Kiran Bedi has political ambitions and when she saw that with muffler around there was no place for her to grow, she jumped ship and joined the party with the momentum?

what's wrong in harboring political ambitions?
But she should 've joined politics earlier.

Can you say with conviction that today if that party had been the Congress, she would not have joined them?

She had been supporting BJP for sometime now so there's no way she would've joined Congress even if they had offered her Sonia Gandhi's seat. Lolzz
She's a professional and known for her strict conduct and ergo her decisions 're very predictable in such issues.

 

[pursuit of happiness]

The straightforward reason for Arvind Kejriwal's resounding victory is that the Congress vote -- which amounted to 24% in the 2013 assembly elections -- significantly switched to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The land ordinance, whose implications the AAP was quick to pick up on, also turned rural notables against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

But this victory is about so much more; it is about where the urban poor belong in mainstream politics, what this does to the authority of Narendra Modi and what this impact will have on national politics at large.

Kejriwal’s win is an important reminder that the politics of expressing a ‘preferential option for the poor’ can be a successful strategy in electoral democracy. The thing that strikes you as you listen to AAP supporters either on videos posted on Facebook or the auto driver who happens to support him is the intensity, the vehemence and the air of defiance that is imbued in their support for Kejriwal. There is also a festive exuberance of a hitherto silent urban insurgency, reared on cynicism about the empty spectacle of power, now finding utterance.

And why not. The AAP stood by its urban poor base literally through thick and thin, making a decisive impression during its stint in power by offering free water, halving power bills and enforcing a measure of discipline and restraint on Delhi Police which, in most accounts of the poor, had never happened before. Kejriwal and Co. endured withering criticism from their own supporters over resigning in haste and yet kept in touch with underprivileged communities, helping to rebuild slums, and offering a range of services including legal advocacy through its stream of volunteers. The AAP grew out of an eco-system of social movement activism – featuring civil society leaders and academics – that is marked a no-frills tenacity that other political parties struggle to match. The RSS does have that level of commitment but its effectiveness is hamstrung by its lack of inclusivity and its problematic relationship with capital and the entrepreneurial political class that populate its allied outfits like the BJP.

Kejriwal has no such ambiguity. He makes explicit the connection between someone’s power and affluence and other’s deprivation. The themes are clear: the public good is being corralled into private interests. Politicians, big business and power companies are all complicit in this process robbing the commonweal of resources that can benefit all. Poverty and the absence of power is a derivative of the rich man’s agency and Kejriwal wants to use the state to restore a level-playing field. Others have tried this narrative before but in the person of Kejriwal this has particular velocity owing perhaps to his technocratic expertise, his fluency in English and the vernacular and his distinctive, studious delivery that works well both in public meetings and on TV. While Prime Minister Modi can scarcely bring himself to be asked two back-to-back questions in a press conference, Kejriwal handles any TV anchor with an assurance that borders on rudeness, which works as an asset if you have a reputation for speaking for the poor. They see in his clarity their own rage articulated and radiated to the rich and powerful. He offers to the urban poor the delight of someone speak up unapologetically for the underclass without so much mentioning caste and religious divisions and, for the volunteers, there is the moral spur of participating in that endeavour....

Decoding Delhi verdict: Why Kejriwal's AAP won, how Modi lost and what does the result mean

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AAP
it was win for AAP hard work..those guys working for 6m- 1yr for same in each delhi localities..
AAP made some sky high promise.. now its there test..
but good they won on agenda of basic issue not on relgion and caste..
AK learned his lesson in past mistake

BJP
BJP looked confidant but arrogant ...
local work affected due to many lower leadership not given or did not get waht they wnated
BJP did negative campiagn like congress did in loksabha and here is same result.
the extremt right wing ramkes by few bjp and allied org and no stick policy on some fring group paid price .. in election
BJP.. still need to learn lesson they were elected for development only..

Conculsion..
Its good AAP won .. bjp needed that push to see the reality.. its sense of poeple prevail not individial..
if you are right it may be AK.. NM.. RG. they will keep you on head.. if not then see ballot box says all

 

[doppelganger]

what wrong in harboring political ambitions?
But she should 've joined politics earlier.

She had been supporting BJP for sometime now so there's no way she would've joined Congress even if they had offered her Sonia Gandhi's seat. Lolzz
She's a professional and known for her strict conduct and ergo her decisions 're very predictable in such issues.

I actually think she should have had more of a cooling off period, did some ground work unattached, then join the BJP and establish herself within first.

 

[nair]

Nope...she doesnt deserve this at all.
May be BJP but not her.

Why not?????

 

[Tshering22]

As a former Delhiite, I'd love to have free wifi, free water and power.

It will save so much money for us!

 

[Levina]

I actually think she should have had more of a cooling off period, did some ground work unattached, then join the BJP and establish herself within first.

I agree!

Why not?????

Let me reverse the question
why did she deserve it?