Making urban India's voice heard, is that AAP's real success?

Move over, rural India. Time for urban India to make its voice heard.

At least that’s what it seems like.A recent Barclay’s report titled “Megatrends: Accelerating urbanizationin India” suggests that the mass urban outpouring of support received by the Aam Aadmi Party in the run up to the Delhi state elections could be a sign that it’s time for political parties to adopt urban-centric policy.

If Arvind Kejriwal’s success is anything to go by ( AAP won 28/70 seats in its maiden outing), promises to fix civic amenities, like uninterrupted water and power supplies, as well as to battle corruption can go a long way to get urban voters to actually overcome their inertia and actually cast their votes in large numbers.

As the chart shows, AAP’s election manifesto found a lot of takers in Delhi’s more urban central and south constituencies, which is why it won in those areas.

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In a country where political parties spend all their power trying to woo the rural voter perhaps AAP has hit on a new strategy that is worth exploring.