INDIA SUMMARIZED

Be it the lofty or somewhat unrealistic Swaraj promises on which the Aam Admi Party was founded, the promise to provide an alternate mode of politics, or his repeated appeals to the people of the country to use their mobile phones as weapons to conduct sting operations, seem to have all backfired on him. The highly publicised implosion within AAP has been happening at a time when Kejriwal should ideally have been relishing his glorious advancement to power and the national political scene. Ahead of the National Council meeting, AAP's national convener and de-facto supremo appears to be a distressed man. Either he has to hunt down the likes of Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav and Prof Anand Kumar or else be ready to be hounded by them. The situation couldn't be more ironic. Until about a month-and-half ago they were all one team, with the Bhushans, Yadav and Kumar considered the mature voices and conscience keepers of the party, while Kejriwal was the brilliant org...