Why BJP's AAP phobia is meaningless.

I interact with a lot of people on Twitter daily. Most of the BJP supporters I have come across are irritating, abusive and strong headed. However, there are a lot of BJP tweeples I genuinely respect. @Antanudey, @BarbarIndian, @MrsGandhi among the few.

I saw that Antanu Dey was having a discussion with @ReclaimBharat, mainly because of his twitter bio which says -



And this was hard to digest by Antanu. So, he initiated a discussion with him:

@reclaimbharat I wonder why you don't vote directly for Congress instead of the indirect route of voting for AAP. It has the same effect.
— Atanu Dey (@atanudey) April 14, 2013

 Rebut from R-Bharat:

@atanudey What makes u believe that supporting AAP is indirectly supporting Cong?
— WeThePeople (@ReclaimBharat) April 14, 2013

 Antanu promises a blog to explain his stand. He explained to me that I do not understand political strategies:

@bharat_builder @theblessedsword AAP supporters should learn to think strategically. Good intentions are not enough. Monkey, fish, tree.
— Atanu Dey (@atanudey) April 14, 2013

So, when he told us that he would be coming up with a blog, I was expecting a very detailed blog with all the fine prints of politics. However, I was shocked to see his blog post - "Why a Vote for the AAP is a vote for the Congress", which essentially was a single line statement - "AAP will snatch away votes from BJP"!

I thought of giving a rebut as a blog comment, but that would be lost with time. Hence I have come up with a blog post of myself which explains why BJP's AAP phobia is meaningless, naive, juvenile and myopic.

Here are some of the few reasons backing my argument:

o      AAP, right now, is just another brick in the wall of political parties. There are numerous political parties in India. Here is the list of "Unrecognized Political Parties" and here is the list of Recognized National Political Parties and here is the list of Recognized State Parties. Now, I give you the assignment of finding how many political parties cut the votes of BJP. Very fair to put all blame on AAP, isn't it?

o      Currently, AAP is focused only on Delhi state elections and Not general elections. The 15 day fast of Arvind Kejriwal was focused on 272 wards of Delhi. If a person in Gujarat feels insecure due to this, it is His problem.

o      Does BJP want to win the Delhi elections? Really? I do not see any good ground work by BJP in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal had the guts to take the stage, stand beside Vijay Goel, and still slam him. Vijay ended up hugging and crying people. Stupid lip service with no substance. People chose people who have courage and vision.

o      Vijay Goel is not an inspirational figure. This is what Madhu Kishwar (who is writing Modinama) has to say about him:

My Vijay Goel tweet got following endorsement frm a BJP leader: Goel will prove nemesis of BJP, man of low character, Dilli ko bech khayega
— Madhu Kishwar (@madhukishwar) March 28, 2013

        There are reports that Vijay Goel is selling Delhi tickets. Delhi mayor post is also up for sale. Does BJP think that such people would get votes?

o     Assuming that BJP Delhi is in fact pretty good. Still, AAP can win by just increasing the voting % and not touching the Congress/BJP votebank at all. Please go through this blog Government of the Non-Voters

o    Mr. Narendra Modi, AAP will NOT be a National party in 2014. Here is the requirement to be a national party - Either it must have polled 6 per cent of the valid votes polled in any four states alongwith at least four seats in the Lok Sabha or it must have got 2 per cent of the total seats in Lok Sabha from at least three states. Thus AAP would be fighting for making a national government in 2019, and not in 2014.

I can go on and on with me arguments, however till now, I believe most intelligent people would have understood the crux of the matter.

And I believe, 'strategists' should be creating new strategies.