Why one should think of AAP as Congress 2.0

Delhi's recent watershed event has far greater significance than the experts have suggested. The rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) should be seen as the beginning of a new nationwide phenomena, not limited to Delhi. One may think of AAP as Congress 2.0 - having the same base of popular as well as elite supporters, minus only the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

For the past century, certain communities used to combine their political voices under the umbrella of the Congress, until Congress started to meltdown as a revolt against the dynasty. For a while, these homeless' communities of voters wandered in different directions, experimentally and opportunistically supporting different parties, including the BJP. These forces - which I have termed fragments' - have now found a new home in AAP. Hence, the Congress has been reinvented into a new legal body called AAP.