There is no precise, carbon-dated moment of the birth of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Technically, it could be August 4, 2012 when its first founders, after calling politics a cesspool in their anti-corruption campaign, announced that they were themselves taking the plunge. In my book though, its origin dates back to some moment in 2010 when the India Against Corruption campaign hit the streets, and found Anna Hazare as its mascot, brand ambassador and chief trumpeter.
The conductor of the orchestra, nobody had any doubt, was young Arvind Kejriwal. This new force remained amorphous. It ...
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First Published: Sat, March 17 2018. 06:00 IST
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