CPM politburo member Prakash Karat, in an interview to The Economic Times, admitted that Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party has successfully taken the place the Left party should have taken in the contemporary political map of India. Karat said that since the AAP had brought up issues of the working class India in its campaign, it was able to forge a connection with the voting population, now tired of the BJP and Congress' mothballed narratives.
However, he expressed reservations about AAP's policies as a government and its politics, saying that neither was comprehensibly fleshed out. Karat tells ET:
Prakash Karat. Agencies.
"Right now, it means all things to all people, so we have to wait and see how exactly they shape it. We are getting individual views of their leaders occasionally. One says neither Left nor Right applies to Indian conditions, another says he doesn't believe in ideology. Yet, a common refrain is that they reject all parties across the spectrum."
Pointing at Delhi, Karat added that since Delhi doesn't have a major industrial working force, the Left has failed to sink its teeth into the city-state's politics. He added that the AAP will not be able to strike a chord in states where the Left has a strong presence.
He further said that AAP's 'ekla cholo re (walk alone)' policy will not hold in the long run, thanks to the country's tradition of coalition governments. He said a non-Congress, non-BJP front has to be worked out. He tells ET:
"In the course of the next three weeks this will crystallise since some alliance will be announced in some states between these parties. But mostly it will happen after the polls. As of now, the AAP has an ekla chalo re (walk it alone) policy, but after the elections, all non-Congress non-BJP parties will have to mull on how a secular government can be formed, and even the AAP will have to respond to that."
Read the full interview on The Economic Times here.
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