Kejriwal himself does not have the sheen of the new kid on the block from a few months ago. That was before he became the 49-day Bhogoda wonder.
Now the street ahead is blotted with a touch of scepticism. Sudha, a middle-aged housewife, stands at the edge of the crowd. She was out for a little “marketing” she says and got sucked into the road rally. She says she supported him but the Somnath Bharti shenanigans and Kejriwal’s resignation gives her pause. “He is a kachche khiladi (a green player)” she says doubtfully.
The AAP team seems to be broken with more disheartened bunch of leaders and supporters. When candidate Ashutosh and Kejriwal arrive the AAP supporters crowd goes wild. Festooned with heavy marigold garlands and big red turbans, the duo look more like an unlikely couple of bridegrooms instead of political candidates. Kejriwal looks sunburned from days on the campaign trail. He seems pumped and confident but the shadow of those 49 days blunder still lingers. He comes back to it again and again in his stump speech, intending to change the course in future .
He is making a virtue out of the runaway label his opponents want to pin on him. “Lord Ramachandra was lucky the BJP was not there when he went into exile,” he says. “Otherwise they would call him a runaway too.“
INDIA HONEST doubts if Delhi people digest Kanjriwal's bluntness in equating himself to Lord Ram ?
INDIA HONEST doubts if Delhi people digest Kanjriwal's bluntness in equating himself to Lord Ram ?
MERI JAY KARO..... MAINE RAM KI TARAH
BANWAS LIYA HE ; GADDI CHOD DI
INDIA HONEST summarises that while AAP's core team has been by now broken into more of a disheartened bunch of leaders and supporters,while the AAP as a challenger to political system in India has lost its steam, strength and utility.Yogendra Yadav, the pious political brainchild is fighting his lone battle in Hariyana, while outspoken and foul mouthed Kumar and Sazia are pushed far away from cosy and cool Delhi, trying hard to cut some space in the unknown territories.
Hard hitter while blaming political leaders as a news journalist Ausutosh, has lost his speech, now struck on the past deeds of AAP's dharna in Delhi,that only to save a porn spam star Somnath Bharti's criminal misdeeds on foreign women in Khirki incident.
All this clubbed together, the people are asking more questions on the utility of sending insignificant five or ten AAP candidates to the parliament, when their leaders had failed to sit and govern in Delhi in past.
More people are now recognising the blame often floated that AAP's Kajriwal is fighting a personal battle of enmity with Modi and Ambani, and anybody winning in this election on AAP's platform may bring little sense of justice to the needs of 125 crore rural India.