Sans ideology, AAP plays Hindu card

Arvind Kejriwal is one politician who neither carries any ideological baggage, nor does he have has any pretensions about having such an inclination either.

AAP was a counter-revolution. It was a revolt against the status quo, and votes for AAP were nothing but a wholesale rejection of established parties. Voters were fed up with the age-old establishment and wanted to teach them a lesson. Therefore, they chose AAP.

But, in the last few years, AAP, instead of changing the status quo, has allowed itself to be co-opted and become a part of the establishment. His latest transgression -- that if AAP wins the Delhi assembly elections, then his government will fork out Rs 18000 per month as salary to all Hindu priests and pujaris and also to Sikh granthis -is another strand of his Machiavellian politics, the be all and end all of which is to win the election by any means.