AAP: Ideals without ideas

March 03, 2014 15:17

In an earlier article I argued that the Aam Aadmi Party was one among the many attempts, since Independence, to found a new political party.

All of them changed our politics to varying degrees -- whether for less government control over the economy, favouring other backward castes, against specific issues of corruption.

But they had economic ideologies. The Swatantra party wanted more freedom to enterprise. Jayaprakash Narayan was a socialist and in power, his ideology would be for more State control and social welfare schemes.

The Janata Party was a hotch-potch and tried to pander to its different components. V.P. Singh was a believer in fiscal balance, but was not in power long enough to do much. Read

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