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State elections 2013 thread: Delhi, MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram


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tht will be illogical since bjp has more numbers. It will be unethical on part of aap.
Why would be unethical? BJP has said it does not have the numbers and does not mind AAP forming the govt with or without anybody's help
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Why would be unethical? BJP has said it does not have the numbers and does not mind AAP forming the govt with or without anybody's help
it will be unethical since they have less seats than bjp. If it has to be minority gov, aap should allow bjp to form one.
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it will be unethical since they have less seats than bjp. If it has to be minority gov' date= aap should allow bjp to form one.
Didn't they already? BJP had the chance but they didn't.
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AAP forming govt with Congress support. Even BJP is supporting it. This should be fun now. AAP cannot refuse. They are forcing AAP to form a govt or call their bluff. Politics at play here. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/assembly-elections-2013/delhi-assembly-elections/Congress-BJP-offer-support-to-AAP-to-form-govt-in-Delhi/articleshow/27309692.cms

The Congress has written a letter to the lieutenant governor offering unconditional support to Arvind Kejriwal's party to form the government in Delhi. The BJP has also asked the Aam Admi Party to form a government while assuring it of constructive cooperation in fulfilling its promises such as slashing tariff by 50 per cent and providing free water upto 700 litres daily. Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said if AAP was really serious about fulfilling the promises made to people, then it should go ahead and form a government. "AAP had made many promises including two major promises of reducing power tariff by 50 per cent and providing free water up to 700 litres per day. If AAP is really serious about fulfilling these promises, then it should go ahead and form a government and BJP will provide whatever cooperation is required," Goel said.
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AAP ready to take Congress support, conditions apply After the Congress wrote to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung offering to support AAP to form a government in Delhi, sources suggest that the party may join hands with the Congress. Sources in AAP told CNN-IBN that if the Congress is ready to back Jan Lokpal Bill it may consider joining hands with the Congress. A Congress source told IANS that all eight legislators of the party were ready to back AAP, which has been invited by Jung on Saturday to explore the possibility of forming a government. The letter to Jung read: "Indian National Congress is willing to offer unconditional outside support to AAP if they are ready to form the government." "We have come to know through media that after the refusal of BJP to form government in absence of adequate number, you have invited Arvind Kejriwal of AAP to form government," it added. The letter was signed by party general secretary Shakeel Ahmed and Delhi Congress chief JP Agarwal. All the eight Congress legislators on Thursday met party vice president Rahul Gandhi and expressed their desire to support AAP. The AAP finished with 28 seats in the 70-member assembly, just behind the Bharatiya Janata Party's 31, leaving Delhi with a hung house. The BJP Thursday said it will not form a government. http://www.firstpost.com/politics/aap-ready-to-take-congress-support-conditions-apply-1286363.html

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Will be end of AAP's political career if they take congress support after fighting their entire election opposed to their policies
Agreed. They presented themselves as the alternative to the corrupt established parties. Before the election (and even after the results came out) they again and again said that they would never accept/give support of Cong because they were not like all the other parties in the country and were not hungry for power blah blah blah.... If they had not accepted the support of BJP/Cong then at least they could have gone into re-election and said that they promised they would never accept the support of Cong/BJP and they lived up to that promise even when both parties offered them support. But if now they accept the support of Cong then thats it for them.
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I don't think they are hungry for power. Rather scared of being blamed for the the re-election. AAP would have preferred to stay in the opposition but BJP's refusal forced their hand

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I don't think they are hungry for power. Rather scared of being blamed for the the re-election. AAP would have preferred to stay in the opposition but BJP's refusal forced their hand
Fair enough. But right now they don't realize how unprepared they are for being in power - ek baar power mein aaney do phir sab aatein daal ka bhaav pata chal jayega inko. Besides, if they do take the support of Cong (even if its outside support with no Cong MLA being a minister), it will give the BJP ample ammunition to label AAP alongside Cong in Lok Sabha elections.
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Congress will bring down the government in a few months anyway. They are not really good at giving outside support. Brought down the United front government twice in the 90s and were punished for it in the next elections

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Congress will bring down the government in a few months anyway. They are not really good at giving outside support. Brought down the United front government twice in the 90s and were punished for it in the next elections
By that time AAP would have lost a lot of support and Cong would have gained some of the lost ground in Delhi.
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By that time AAP would have lost a lot of support and Cong would have gained some of the lost ground in Delhi.
Governing isn't really that hard. There are plenty of support structures with bureaucrats doing the grunt work and providing the knowledge of how the system works. The government only has to provide the vision. AAP may make rookie political mistakes on the way, but i don't think they will misgovern day-to-day affairs of the state. The main challenge is to rid the state of the corruption which is far harder to achieve. Since it has been the key election agenda of the party formation. The alliance with Congress will hurt their political image badly.
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Governing isn't really that hard. There are plenty of support structures with bureaucrats doing the grunt work and providing the knowledge of how the system works. The government only has to provide the vision. AAP may make rookie political mistakes on the way, but i don't think they will misgovern day-to-day affairs of the state. The main challenge is to rid the state of the corruption which is far harder to achieve. Since it has been the key election agenda of the party formation. The alliance with Congress will hurt their political image badly.
We have seen in case of many leaders like Akhilesh Yadav, Omar Abdullah etc where they were inexperienced and thus made a lot of big mistakes. In case of AAP I think these mistakes will be more than in case of conventional politicians and they will be magnified even more because of the extremely high expectation and the unrealistic things which they promised (but most probably will not be able to deliver) before the elections. And as you said, the biggest problem for them will be the damage to their image because of association with Cong - that is something that will result in loss of support from voters who voted for AAP/are planning to vote for AAP because they are tired of the established parties.
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quite a quandary for AAP,ideally the best thing for them is re-election but both CONG and BJP are quite clever in their fake support pronouncements,AAP has no choice but to reject both but it will sow some doubt in the minds of voters whether AAP is really ready for prime time in the re-election.
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I am done with AAP if they take Congress support.
99..9% chance they won't take support of cong.Without majority cong won't allow them to do anything .
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AAP in a dilemma whether to form govt. or not. If they go for re-elections, BJP will win with clear majority and AAP will lose its stand. If the form govt. now, they will lose their own identity as an anti-corrupt party.

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