2014 Poll Plan AAP Style
India Cause reported the Kejriwal 2014 LS poll plans:
As per report; 73 candidates, challenge heavyweight ministers. young anti-graft party that stormed to power in the national capital last month plans to field at least 73 candidates in Lok Sabha elections due by May to stand against politicians accused of crimes, its founder said on Monday.
Following its strong performance in Delhi, interest in the year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has surged. Since an announcement earlier this month that it would contest the general election, its membership has passed 10 million. Until now the party had not said how many of the 540 lower house parliamentary seats it might contest in an election pitting the centre-left governing coalition against front runner opposition candidate Narendra Modi.
While polls suggest the debutant party is unlikely to win more than a dozen or so seats, its success in Delhi has shaken up the national race, with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress party both aping Aam Aadmi’s anti-elite, anti-corruption language.
Even a small clutch of seats for the AAP could be enough to deny Modi a chance at forming a government, and give AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal a say in national policy. AAP will put up candidates in constituencies of 73 members of parliament who face serious criminal charges. Candidates will also stand for the seats of central government ministers which the party believes are corrupt, Kejriwal said in an interview with Reuters.
“The most important thing is there are a large number of cabinet ministers who have indulged in corruption, they need to be defeated, There are nearly 162 people in Lok Sabha who have criminal charges against them and there are 73 out of them who have serious charges against them. They need to be defeated, we will put up strong candidates against them,” said Kejriwal, who was sworn in as the head of Delhi’s city government on December 28.
He did not say how many, or which, government ministers would be a target. Voters are notorious for rewarding candidates with criminal accusations against them. Politicians accused of crimes had a higher success rate than others in the last parliamentary election in 2009.
“It is for the people to decide if they want to support clean politics or not. Earlier the people used to say they didn’t have an option, now we will provide them with a clean option,” AAP is expected to also field national election candidates in constituencies in New Delhi and in the neighboring states of Haryana and Punjab.
PS: As per their style, AAP did not named politicians/ministers against whom they are planning to field candidates, to let them keep guessing. Good strategy. On one hand, It may create an enthusiasm in AAP workers and on the other hand, it may facilitate backdoor negotiation in Delhi style. Whatsoever may be intention of AAP, this strategy is bound to create flatter in the political circle.
From: Pradeep Shanker
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Even if AAP doesn’t do well it will force parties to change candidates in these constituencies. It will be interesting to see how many of these 160 odd criminals are from BJP.
Every thing still appears to be in fluid at this stage.It is just any body’s guess how events are going to shape.
But it appears Modi is ahead of every political parties and even the sworn enemies are softening their attitude.People are fast making up their minds to give one chance to Modi.AAP will be a fraction in 2014 and shall be just a substitute for Congress.Congress must realise that AAP is weakening them and shall not dent BJP much.However,I shall keep my fingers crossed.
Expository Writing Pradeep ji. If this is so, then BJP needs to take guard and device a strategy in order to minimize the mess. BJP cannot be complacent anymore. AAP punters can do anything they want. For BJP their Vision Document or Agenda hold the key.
Pradeep Sir,You are bang on.Aap only is a spoil sport for Namo.Noppolicy No vision. Good write up.
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