The Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, is a political party founded by Arvind Kejriwal in 2012. It was born out of a civil society movement — Indian Against Corruption — that received massive popular support in 2011-12 after public anger over corruption charges on the then Congress-led UPA government.
It won its first elections in Delhi in 2013, and came to power with outside support from the Congress. But the government lasted only 49 days as Kejriwal resigned since he was unable to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly. The AAP returned to power in 2015, when fresh elections were held, and swept the Delhi elections winning 67 of 70 seats. The first few issues tackled by AAP were the fraudulent inflation of water and electricity bills, promising the people of Delhi certain free units of electricity.
The AAP government in Delhi has been in a tussle with the BJP-ruled central government and the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) over the division of powers. Kejriwal and several AAP leaders and ministers face corruption charges related to alleged irregularities in the 2021-22 Delhi excise policy case. The case has already landed former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, and AAP campaign manager Vijay Nair in jail.
Yes. Since Politics is all fancy dress now, Kejriwal is Chhatrapati Shivaji, Modi is Afzal Khan and Amit Shah is Shaistekhan (with two fingers, but minus 20 kg). Ofcourse the Delhi rulers are Mughals and India as a country does not exist. Why are grown men of Indian politics – whether Kejriwal or Modi or Rahul Gandhi so short of originality that they keep harking back to 17th century kings who wore jewellery and married half a dozen women and always bore sons who they didn’t get along with eventually, and who frittered away everything because they were administratively so weak. Shiv Sena, BJP, Congress, NCP have all raided Shivaji s reputation before these AAP late latifs, and none have the charm or brains of Shivaji. Think of something original, no. There are Bhakti saints in Maharashtra, there were social reformers, there were scholarly women, there were even evil, manipulative women like Anandibai (since you are looking for politics), there were brilliant writers like Pu La Deshpande, there were proper chief ministers with org capabilities like YB Chavan, there are sportsppl like Kashaba, Sachin or Zaheer Khan. There’s Baba Amte. Why do you have to appropriate Shivaji all over again? Are politicians in Delhi all so daft and unimaginative? Stop this fancy dress. You are not even good at it.
Maharashtra is not hospitable terrain for AAP, not even a single city like Bombay.
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It’s Chatrapati Shivaji…show some respect who revived and strengthen moral, confidence in many Indians.