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- Title
The Aam Aadmi Party and Emerging Political Scenario on the Eve of the 2017 Punjab State Assembly Elections.
- Authors
Kumar, Ashutosh
- Abstract
With the assembly elections looming on the horizon, the political landscape of Punjab is getting more complex with each passing day, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) remains the main protagonist in the ongoing theatrical mode of politics, so typical of the state. The question in the minds of election analysts is whether a four-year-old party facing two of the oldest surviving parties in India will be able to bring about a critical shift in the bipolar party system well established in the state since the 1997 elections. Punjab for long has been reeling under endemic crises in the form of agrarian distress, drug menace, crony capitalism, corruption and an overall governance deficit. Arguably then, any significant electoral gain for the AAP in the 2017 elections, as in the case of the 2014 parliamentary elections, would signify the desperation of the electorate with the firm grip of the Congress and Akali Dal over the levers of power. This explains why despite being a party lacking in terms of state-wide organizational presence, state-specific agenda or state-level leadership, the AAP as a self-proclaimed movement party, committed to clean and principled politics, with politically novice but apparently well-meaning candidates, has been able to raise hop e among the wider electorate across the state's three electoral regions. However, since 2014, as the paper discusses in detail, the party has had a checkered inning in the state.
- Subjects
INDIA; AAM Aadmi Party (Political party : India); POLITICAL parties; POLITICS &; government of India, 1977-; ELECTIONS; CRONY capitalism; CORRUPTION
- Publication
Journal of Punjab Studies, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 1, p175
- ISSN
0971-5223
- Publication type
Article