Loss of faith in a sabotaged system is the main cause for the emergence of the AAP and their formation of the government.
Before he was 24, Modi was made the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Pracharak for Ahmedabad city. This was in the period leading up to Indira Gandhi's Emergency, and the Navnirman agitation in Gujarat. Vasantrao Gajendragadkar was Modi's mentor in these days.
AAP has an identity crisis today, they started as an agitator and suddenly they were asked to be an administrator.
India needs a young PM whose actions are indicative of his anti-corruption stance. We need someone who just doesn't give hollow speeches but someone who has actually taken a stand against corruption.
His repeated emphasis on corruption completely ignores the massive corruption that Mamnmohan Singh presided on with indulgence, looking the other way for nearly TEN years.
If the internal contradictions within AAP are not self-resolved, then it will likely split itself into two parties
While one can expect AAP supporters to sing praises of the party in question and claim that they will sweep India, it is yet to be seen if they can even govern Delhi effectively.
It is too early to write obituary for the fledgling party though the writer is not way off the mark in pointing out various contradictions and inconsistencies.
Even AB Vajpayee could not bring 200 seats at the height of his popularity and formed the government with 20 other parties.
the AAP will trouble the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections much less than it did in Delhi.
He dumped his mentor; his relations with his colleagues in the Jan Andolan including Bedi, Anna and Ramdev Baba are fragile
In this chapter of his book Jyotipunj, Modi writes fondly about meeting him at age 20, and staying with him during his third year of RSS training.
I think it was incumbent on Singh, who has been prime minister for a decade and finance minister for five years to elaborate.
What does Modi know about running a coalition like NDA ? Dr Singh's legacy has to be measured in terms of two consecutive terms.
Narendra Modi has revealed his inspirations in a work he wrote after he became chief minister in 2001. The book, written in Gujarati, is called Jyotipunj. In this chapter from his book of short biographies, being translated for the first time, Narendra Modi profiles the man who offered him lessons in personal discipline, disaster management and administration.
Also for those hung up on the fact that AAP has no experience in administration, what do the Congress and BJP have experience of? The art of stealing from treasury and making it sound like schemes?
Delhi may be a one off exception and it is the reason why he is foisting himself on Delhi with Congress support.
Bureaucrats are not likely to come running to join Kejriwal.
In this chapter of his book Jyotipunj, Narendra Modi pays tribute to the dentist who first expanded the RSS in Gujarat, and took its cultural message to the tribals.
A breakage of an alliance at engagement stage is better than a divorce after marriage.
The degeneration of politics in this country is too grave and the morality has sunk to lowest depths beyond redemption.
Had the commission's report been accepted, Sushilkumar Shinde, currently the Union Home Minister, would either have to resign or be sacked.
Nowhere in the country, in fact, is the story different, since the wicked politician-administration nexus is universal all over India and pervades from top to bottom.
There are no real ideas that the AAP has come up with.
If the BJP doesn't address real problems — price rise, inflated electricity bills, inflation — the middle class faces in cities, they would fare poorly with urban voters.
According to Modi himself, his management training has come from a management school that he thinks is as good as Harvard and Stanford.
Anna should change his stand soon and make everyone a winner in this battle against misrule and corruption. Otherwise the "aam aadmi" will be the loser.
AAP will find it tough to control internal corruption when it grows bigger in the days to come.
All criticism of AAP’s reluctance to form a government, if they are from the ordinary people arises from the fact that it is being seen from the conventional prism: government formation by hook or crook.